[fitswcs] coordinates by table lookup

[Peter Teuben]

On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, William Pence wrote:

> 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
> > 

equally so, what about that other operating system that work
backwards

	c:\subdir\wcsfile.fit

or any future OS.  Should one use a more generic URL-only syntax,
since that is presumably more portable

- peter