Identifier write_fitstable Purpose Write an IA struct as a FITS table file Synopsis write_fitstable, IAstruct, filename [, blocksize=blocksize] Arguments Name I/O Type: Description: ------------------------------------------------------------ IAstruct I struct IA structure (SPD, ERD, AAR, etc.) filename I string Name of a FITS file blocksize I integer Size of a block Returns -- Description A FITS file is created and the contents of an IA struct is written to it. The header of the IA struct should be the header for a FITS binary table. The validity of this header is not checked. Comment Only binary FITS tables can be written and its up to the user to supply an IA struct that contains a valid header for a binary FITS table. Currently only calibration structures can be sensibly written. The current default blocksize is set to 512 because otherwise the resulting file can't be read by FITSIO. AFAIK the default should be set to 2880 ... Example cal13 = readcal('cal13') ; Create and read a calstruct write_fitstable, cal13, 'mycal13.fits' Category I/O Filename write_fitstable.pro (module: write_fitstable) Author D.R.Boxhoorn Version 2.9 History 1.0 11-08-94 DRB Created from scratch 1.1 30-09-94 DRB IAstruct is no longer being written to 1.2 10-10-94 DRB Keyword blocksize added Open files in blocks of 512 bytes Longints have to be longswapped ... 1.3 13-10-94 DRB Default blocksize is 2880 again 1.4 17-10-94 DRB NAXIS2 is set equal to the number of rows before writing the header 1.5 17-10-94 DRB Handle multi-dimensional data (CAL08 f.e.) 1.6 06-03-95 DRB Do not byteswap LONGs under UNIX 1.7 10-04-95 EkW Add string handling for intermediate products (might be generalized in the future by extracting necessary informations from header) 1.8 28-04-95 HB Unified header 1.9 27-06-95 NS Add structure type 1.10 30-06-95 DRB Give error for headerless structures 1.11 03-07-95 DRB Completely undo changes done in version 1.9 2.0 13-07-95 DRB Added SPD. inserted is_fppeakpos, is_fluxtab 2.1 13-07-95 DRB Resulting filelength is EXACT multiple of 2880 2.2 14-07-95 DRB Do not write struct with STRING of wrong size 2.3 26-07-95 DRB Add timestamp 2.4 08-11-95 EkW Adapt to new AAR structure 2.5 30-11-95 NS Adapt to AAR structure with spare tag 2.6 01-11-95 DRB Put NAXIS2 in the secondary header 2.7 05-12-95 DRB Handle 2-dimensional structures properly 2.8 19/11/96 ++rh Adapted to TIMEDEP structure 2.9 17-03-97 EkW include glitchlist