[daip] moving AIPS files between architectures

[Eric Greisen]

Patrick Shopbell writes:

If you had used daip at nrao.edu, Amy would have told you this sooner...
I have been away.

 > We are in the process of shutting down some old Sun systems,
 > and we would like to move the AIPS directories from the Suns
 > to some newer Linux boxes. Is there any chance that someone
 > has written a script to do this, to take care of swapping
 > bytes around for the different endian architectures?
 > 
 > I didn't see anything on a Google search, but it seems like
 > there should be some way easier than having to move everything
 > via FITS files?
 > 
There are no programs to do this - FITS files must be used.

We have written procs to help: RUN WRTPROCS.  Then use WRTDISK and
READISK.

Eric Greisen