From sla@umbra.UCSC.EDU Fri Aug  6 22:41:24 1993
From: sla@umbra.UCSC.EDU (Steve Allen)
Newsgroups: sci.astro.fits
Subject: Re: shell tools for FITS files, part II
Date: 6 Aug 1993 17:24:21 GMT
Organization: UCO/Lick Observatory
NNTP-Posting-Host: umbra.ucsc.edu
Summary: oops, I forgot the man page
Keywords: Bourne shell, Un*x,

In article <23sqr8INN5jf@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> sla@umbra.UCSC.EDU
(that was me) forgot that one of Alberto Accomazzi's best additions to
the original shell script was to create a man page.  Kindly
associate it with the shell script if you are keeping these.

.TH fitshead l "22 June 1993"
.IX fitshead
.SH NAME
fitshead - display the header of a FITS file
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B fitshead
[
.B -l
] [
.B -x
] [
.IR fitsfile \ ...
]
.SH DESCRIPTION
Displays the header of a FITS file.
If flag
.B \-x
is specified, any extensions that may be present in the
input file are displayed as well.
.SH OPTIONS
.PP
.TP
.B \-l
forces
.I fitshead
to tolerate illegal END cards in the header (these cases have been found in
files generated at Lick Observatory).
.PP
.TP
.B \-x
scans the file for any FITS extensions and, if found, displays the extension
header(s).
.SH "SEE ALSO"
dd(1), sed(1)
.SH AUTHOR
Steve Allen (sla@lick.ucsc.edu) 1992,1993
.br
Modified by Alberto Accomazzi (alberto@cfa.harvard.edu) 1993.
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