[fitsbits] Viewing .fts flies

[Maren Purves]

On Wed, 7 Mar 2007, Rob Seaman wrote:
> On Mar 6, 2007, at 9:14 AM, LC's NoSpam Newsreading account wrote:
>
>> I generally use an extremely lightweight shell script (fitshead by
>> Steve Allen of lick.ucsc.edu) for quick inspection of a FITS file.
>
> You can also view the primary header using "less" in an 80 column window.
>
It helps if you make your window 80 columns wide ...
(and in our files, which aren't FITS, the header is at the end,
so I tend to use "tail -1 <filename> |less")

Maren