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FITSINIT/FITSDIR/FITSOUT/FITSIN/FITSCOPY - FITS tape facilities

These commands are more fully described in Appendix reffitsprogs

FITSINIT gets a tape ready for the writing of FITS images. FITSDIR lists details of FITS images already on tape. FITSOUT writes a FITS image to tape (it is used by TAPE). FITSIN reads a FITS image from tape to disk. FITSCOPY copies FITS images from one tape to another.

Parameters

respond to prompts.

It is important not to fill the output data tape fully with CCD image frames. The copy (or C-tape) may not be of the same length and data could be lost from the copy (although, of course, are still available from the archived data tape. You are therefore recommended to write a maximum of 60 GEC CCD frames or 75 RCA CCD frames per tape.