> Please can I have a copy of the file. The NDF2IRAF was something simple
> from a bygone era where the goal was for interoperability, where
> Starlink tasks could run from the cl. It predates widespread use of
> multi-extension FITS. These days there's not much call for NDF2IRAF, as
> IRAF supports FITS in its kernel.
(except of course when you can use it for a work around ;-)
I've put two images at http://www.star.le.ac.uk/~er45/convert/ , with
obvious names. Both are WFCAM files. I'm curious what other people find.
> Had it been perl instead of Python, you could have used some of Tim
> Jenness's packages that permit calls to the Starlink libraries from
> perl scripts.
Well, one could wrap Python around the HDS C routines, or even the NDF
FORTRAN routines, but doing it direct seemed more efficient.
It is (or probably was by now) really intended as a hack to get things
working for just this case, so I wouldn't care too much with all different
HDS versions (I think WFCAM is version 3).
Cheers,
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