[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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