Peter W. Draper wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Jun 2009, Bringfried Stecklum wrote:
>
>> Brad Cavanagh wrote:
>>> Hi Bringfried,
>>>
>>> On Jun 10, 2009, at 9:36 AM, Bringfried Stecklum wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dear colleagues,
>>>>
>>>> when I tried to open the FITS file
>>>>
>>>> /home/stecklum/Targets/IRAS13481-6124/AAT/aatdata/443/20060606/A/RUN0134.FTS
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> GAIA bumped with the error
>>>>
>>>> "bad filename format"
>>>>
>>>> Any thoughts?
>>> What happens when you rename it to either .FIT or .FITS ?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Brad.
>>>
>>>
>> Hi Brad and Colin,
>>
>> this is weird and not a Gaia fault. I am running Gaia 4.2.2 on Ubuntu 8.10. The
>> error occurs when trying to open the file by double-clicking from the file
>> manager (I tried both nautilus and pcmanfm). It goes away after renaming the
>> file to hhh.fits, hhh.FITS or hhh.fts. Opening the file from the command line
>> works, of course. So what is special about FTS?
>
> FTS is only recognised when the CONVERT package is available, so I imagine
> that you must be opening GAIA in such a way that CONVERT_DIR isn't
> defined, say by running $GAIA_DIR/gaia.[sh|csh] without doing the standard
> initialisations first (source of $STARLINK_DIR/etc/login && cshrc).
>
> So:
>
> % gaia RUN0134.FTS
>
> works
>
> % unsetenv CONVERT_DIR
> % gaia RUN0134.FTS
>
> fails as you describe. If you're running GAIA as a FITS viewer from
> various file managers, that would explain it, in which case define
> CONVERT_DIR as part of the startup command, something like:
>
> env CONVERT_DIR=/star/bin/convert /star/bin/gaia/gaia.csh
>
> should do it.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Peter.
>
>
Bingo, that's it. Thanks a lot Peter!
Cheers,
Bringfried
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