The FITS HEADER EDITOR
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The Fits Header Editor is a program developed to modify the header of a
fits (or fts) format image file. It requires the Windows operating
system.  Most of the operational aspects of the program can be
understood by reading the Help screens from within the program itself.
The rest can be figured out by examining the sample files and using the
program.

The Fits Header Editor (c) 1994 by Michael B. Hayden is shareware.
Commercial use of this product, or incorporation of this product, or any
portion of this product in another product is prohibited without written
agreement from the author.  See important details in ABOUT... in the
main screen of the Fits Header Editor.  As shareware, you may distribute
this software package freely, as long as you distribute the whole thing,
and haven't modified it, and don't money on it.


INSTALLATION:
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Insert the distribution disk in drive a (or b)
In the Program Manager, choose Run from the File menu
Type a:setup (or b:setup) and press Enter


MANIFEST
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The distribution disk contains the following files:


SETUP    EXE     14848 10-21-92  Windows setup and installation program

SETUP    LST        54 05-12-94  A file needed by SETUP.EXE
SETUPKIT DLL      7008 10-21-92  A file needed by SETUP.EXE
940506   EXE     21009 05-08-94  A file needed by SETUP.EXE

FH       EXE    124016 05-05-94  The Fits Header Editor program
VBRUN200 DLL    356992 10-21-92  A file needed by FH.EXE
VER      DL_      9008 03-10-92  A file needed by FH.EXE
CMDIALOG VBX     18400 10-21-92  A file needed by FH.EXE

DEFAULT  KWD       715 04-19-94  The default keyword file (see below)
SAMPLE   TXT       193 04-27-94  A sample input text file (see below)
GASSENDI FTS     66240 04-12-94  An image file            (see below)
SAMPLE   OUT      1489 04-28-94  A sample log file        (see below)

README   1ST      4097 05-12-94  The document you are reading


DESCRIPTION OF INPUT AND OUTPUT FILES:
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DEFAULT.KWD     An ASCII text file, of a particular syntactic structure
                which is automatically read every time the Fits Header
                Editor program is run.  It establishes the particular
                header keyword lines that are written to a log file of
                the general form of SAMPLE.OUT in a logging operation.
                Examine the file itself for details.

SAMPLE.TXT      An ASCII text file. An example of the kind of file the
                Fits Header Editor can read into a header being
                modified.  Each line must not exceed 80 characters. The
                file may have any number of lines, but the number of
                lines imported into the header depend on the space
                available in the header.

SAMPLE.OUT      An example of the ASCII text file generated as a result
                of logging a header.  It is a file of keyword lines (see
                DEFAULT.KWD) that represent a record of information
                extracted from the image file you are modifying.  Each
                record is separated by the log filename, and the time,
                and date taken from your PC's system clock.

GASSENDI.FTS    A sample image file of a moon feature in fits format so
                you can experiment and learn the program.


FINAL NOTES:
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Please be sure to read the HELP and ABOUT... screens available in the sign
on screen of the Fits Header Editor.  They are short, but they contain
essential information.

This software was developed on a 486/33 machine with 8MB and a supervga
card supporting VESA extensions using Microsoft Visual Basic V2.0 Pro.
It has been run on a number of VGA and supervga machines.  If your
machine will run Windows, it will probably run the Fits Header Editor.
But it might not.

Please report bugs and comments to mhayden@gettysburg.edu or send
regular mail to M. B. Hayden, POB 3573, Gettysburg, PA 17325 USA.
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