Weird indeed. I just tried double-clicking on a .fts file in gaia
"Open" and it worked fine.
On Jun 10, 2009, at 10:18 AM, 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?
>
> regards,
>
> Bringfried
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