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Date: 26 Jul 1998 05:44:16 GMT
From: davis at space.mit.edu (John E. Davis)
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I mumbled:
>   Will this fail when using trying portably read/write a 64 bit unsigned
>integer?

I need to get more sleep.  One more time:

   Will this fail when trying to portably read/write a 64 bit unsigned
integer?

--John


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Dear fitsbits subscribers,

It appears that there was only one message which was posted to
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Hi,

Is there somewhere a little command line program
that converts an input file with a raw binary data stream 
into FITS format?

I know the 'convert' program from ImageMagick but this
does only convert 8 bit grayscale or 3x8 bit RGB files.


Input file description:

Simple uncompressed binary data stream from a CCD.
pixel organization on CCD:
	,----------,
	| yz012345 |
	| qrstuvwx |
	| ijklmnop |
	| abcdefgh |
	'----------'

and written into raw data file:
,----------------------------------,
| abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz012345 |
'----------------------------------'

one pixel data: 
- 16 bit (or less)
  unsigned short Intel (little endian)
  or Motorola (big endian) syntax.


The program should run under Linux.

Does someone already know a little program that
does this job? If not I would write a Perl script
for this.


Regards,

Bernd
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  Bernd Nies <bernd.nies at astroinfo.org> wrote:

> Is there somewhere a little command line program
> that converts an input file with a raw binary data stream 
> into FITS format?

> one pixel data: 
> - 16 bit (or less)
>   unsigned short Intel (little endian)
>   or Motorola (big endian) syntax.

> The program should run under Linux.

  You might try grabbing the "XVista" suite from my WWW pages:

     http://a188-L009.rit.edu/tass/software/xvista/index.html

It builds under Linux, and includes a program called "convert"
which probably does the task you request.  

  Let me know if it doesn't quite work properly, and I'll try
to help.


-- 
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Michael Richmond                   "This is the heart that broke my finger."
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Date: 31 Aug 1998 09:30:41 -0500
From: Lee Elson <elson at magus.jpl.nasa.gov>
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Dear Colleague:

We have now released the third beta version of our free Java-based
science
visualization and analysis tool, WebWinds. It is the first general
release, i.e. designed for the user/researcher. The user interface has
been simplified so that files in several different formats can be read
in easily from your local machine or from the Web.  In addition, data
can be subset or subsampled on load, making it possible to visualize
large datasets. There are also several new display and analysis tools
available. Documentation is available (either on-line or via download)
which includes a number of step-by-step examples.

WebWinds has been tested on several Unix, Windows (95/NT) and Mac
platforms but should run on any platform (e.g. DEC Alpha) which supports

Java JDK 1.1.6.

We would appreciate feedback from you, especially with
regard to major, repeatable crashes or features that do not work as
well as success stories.

To download a copy of this release, go to http://webwinds.jpl.nasa.gov.


Regards,
Lee Elson
(818) 354-4223
elson at magus.jpl.nasa.gov