FTP problem with special characters in filenames?
Each operating system comes with its own definition of a valid filename. As a workaround FTP utilities offer options for renaming files. ftp> ntrans : – ftp> get FORS1.2005-03-29T09:37:42.829.fits ftp> quit % ls -ltra % -rw-r–r– 1 wici users 83520 Mar 28 20:12 FORS1.2005-03-29T09:37:42.829.fits In above example the FTP command “ntrans” replaces all occurrences of a colon “:” by a dash “-“. Please refer also to the documentation of your local FTP installation and look for commands like “ntrans”, “nmap”, “case” or “runique”. • How do I convert ESO FITS headers to be understood by IRAF? For the ESO VLT data, translation to IRAF FITS keywords is applied automatically to all datasets retrieved from the archive. For other data, a handy and portable tool (hierarch28) is available for download. How do I read the tape I received from the ESO/HST archive? The tapes we produce are FITS tapes. They can be read with the MIDAS “intape/fits”, IRAF “strfits” or IDL “astro” commands, or by repeatedly
