[Gdal-dev] GDAL_translate and FIT(S) crash

[Jim Julian]

At 10:38 AM 4/7/03 -0600, you wrote:
>On Mon, 2003-04-07 at 10:16, Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> > > Frank,
> > >    The file type confusion arises from the programs. The GDAL_Translate
> > > DOS window output, with
> > > no arguments supplied, lists the format as FIT as does OpenEV's Export
> > > box. The HTML documentation
> > > does list the format as FITS and the extension as .fits. Confusion is
> > > understandable.
>
>Jim,
>
>Just to clarify, there are two different but similarly named formats
>supported by GDAL: FITS and FIT. FIT is always supported, FITS support
>is optional and depends upon you having the cfitsio library installed.
>When I type gdal_translate, I see the following:
>
>...
>
>GDAL 1.1.8.0, released 2002/12/21
>
>The following format drivers are configured and support output:
>
>   FITS: Flexible Image Transport System
>
>i.e. both FIT and FITS are supported. Is this what you see? And which
>format are you after? The astronomical one (FITS) or the SGI one (FIT)?
>
>Cheers,
>
>Sy

Thanks Simon, that clears everything up. I just need to include the library 
the next time I compile.

                                                                    Thanks 
again,
                                                                       Jim 
Julian