[daip] Archive file name length.

Eric Greisen egreisen at nrao.edu
Mon Jul 14 16:51:19 EDT 2008


Craig Walker wrote:
> Just to get it in the record, the VLBA processed archive files with 
> ".uvfits" added to the file names, have names that are too long for the 
> INNAME parameter in FITLD.  The user has to use some workaround to 
> shorten the name in order to load the data into AIPS - possible, but a 
> bit annoying.
I cannot change the length of INFILE or even of the new name I was going 
to switch to (DATAIN) since the length is stuck once POPSDAT is 
distributed.  Also much code internally assumes 48 characters are enough.

.uvfits is not a standard extension - .fit or .fits is.

Eric Greisen




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