[fitswcs] coordinates by table lookup

[William Pence]

Mark Calabretta wrote:
> 
> On Fri 2002/10/25 15:29:00 -0400, William Pence wrote
> in a message to: fitswcs at NRAO.EDU
> 
> > PS1_3 = 'wcsfile.fits'                    - in the same directory
> > PS1_3 = 'subdir1/subdir2/wcsfile.fits'    - in a subdirectory
> > PS1_3 = '/local/user/wcsfile.fits'        - absolute path
> > PS1_3 = 'ftp://nrao.edu/pub/wcsfile.fits' - URL
> 
> What about files on tape?
> Cheers, Mark

Files on tape are not supported by this convention.  Even if there were a
way to refer to tape files, it would not be very useful within this context
if the tape is offline and there is no way for the software to automatically
access it. 

cheers,
Bill
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