[daip] Re: AIPS data format question

[Eric Greisen]

Cormac Reynolds writes:

 > I have a quick question about AIPS data formats. I am migrating from a SUN
 > environment to a Linux box and want to move my AIPS data to the new machine.
 > Preferably I would like to do this without going through intermediate FITS
 > files, i.e. by just copying the AIPS data directories. Obviously this won't
 > work for binary files because the byte-order is different. My question is this
 > - is there are a utility that will convert the byte order in AIPS files for me,
 > so I can do this simple copy? I expect the answer is no, but I thought I would
 > ask just in case.
 > 

Your assumptions are correct - most aips files are data structures so
a conversion program would have to know (current) info about every
file format.  We have trouble with that!  

There are procs in a run file called WRTPROCS :

RUN WRTPROCS
inp WRTDISK
inp READISK

to see how to use.

Eric Greisen