Re: Flexible Image Transport System (FITS) file format support

[Dmitri A. Sergatskov]

On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Thomas D. Dean <address@hidden> wrote:
> I have not used these, but, linux has several open source fits thingees.
>
>>apropos fits | grep fits
> fitstopnm (1)        - convert a FITS file into a portable anymap
> pnmtofits (1)        - convert a portable anymap into FITS format
>>apt-cache search fits | grep fits
> libcfitsio3 - shared library for I/O with FITS format data files
> libcfitsio3-dbg - library for I/O with FITS format data files (debugging
> symbols)
> libcfitsio3-dev - static library for I/O with FITS format data files
> libcfitsio3-doc - documentation for cfitsio
> libastro-fits-cfitsio-perl - Perl extension for using the cfitsio
> library
> libastro-fits-header-perl - Perl tools for reading, modifying and
> writing FITS headers
> libccfits-dev - static library for I/O with FITS format data files
> libccfits-doc - documentation for CCfits
> libccfits0 - shared library for I/O with FITS format data files
> libqfits-dev - Development files for libqfits
> libqfits0 - Library offering easy access to FITS files
> python-pyfits - Python module for reading, writing, and manipulating
> FITS files
> python-pyfits-doc - Documentation for PyFITS
> qfits-tools - FITS manipulation tools
> slang-cfitsio - read and write FITS files from S-Lang
>

Those are the cfitsio library and interfaces to it from different languages.
The issue that it would be nice to have a such interface
for octave...

Sincerely,

Dmitri.
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