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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.