[daip] Re: Question about AIPS data transfer

[Eric Greisen]

Dayton Jones writes:
 > Hi, Eric.  Our group at JPL is slowly switching from Suns 
 > to linux machines, and the question of how best to transfer 
 > AIPS data files between these different systems has come up.
 > I suspect that we could write everything to FITS files, copy 
 > those from the Sun to the linux disks, and then read them 
 > back into AIPS on the linux machines.  Is this what you have 
 > done when moving to new machine architectures, or is there 
 > a more streamlined procedure that I haven't thought of? 

FITS files are required which means that Plot and SLice files get
lost.

We have procedures to assist with this:

RUN WRTPROCS

then WRTDISK and READISK are the easiest to use.

Eric Greisen