On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, Malcolm J. Currie wrote:
> After changing my mind more times than I care to recall, if you specify
> "fmtcnv=native", not parameter TYPE as first aired, you should obtain a
> scaled array (provided BSCALE and BZERO aren't absent or set to 1.0 and
> 0.0 respectively). This leaves TYPE free to set the unscaled type to
> override the BSCALE/BZERO precision. Yes FMTCNV had been a logical at
> one time and its usage was still TRUE or FALSE, hence my initial
> reluctance to use it.
>
> I hope the current arrangement is logical [(-:] for you. Having
> implemented and tsted with TYPE=Native, I think it's better this way
> around.
Works for me. I'm wondering whether FMTCNV=Native should be the default...
Now just need to be able to write it back to the fits natively... :-)
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Tim Jenness
JAC software
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