On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, Tim Jenness wrote:
> Would something like this be trivial with the Starlink classes?
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> Tim Jenness
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> Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 14:13:41 +0500 (GMT)
> From: Pallavi Kulkarni <[log in to unmask]>
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> Subject: conVOT - ASCII & FITS to VOTable Converter version 0.99 released
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> Hi all,
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> conVOT- A Tool for converting ASCII and FITS files to VOTables is
> released.
short answer is yes - an application called tablecopy comes with
TOPCAT which is a little command line tool that converts tables
from any supported (input) format into any supported (output)
format. ASCII->VOTable and FITS->VOTable, which is what ConVOT
does, are instances of this. ConVOT appears to be a GUI-only
application, which admittedly offers some more flexibility, but
requires a lot more user intervention (I'd guess that tablecopy
is smart enough to make the right guesses about most of the
decisions a user has to take in ConVOT).
I was a bit peeved when I saw this announcement since I'm planning
to do a public release of the starlink tables classes shortly,
but have been distracted by other things lately and it looks like
they've pipped me to the post. However I think the products serve
sufficiently different needs that it's not too bad a clash.
Mark
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Mark Taylor Starlink Programmer Physics, Bristol University, UK
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