FITSBIN

Name

fitsbin

Purpose

Software binning of an image in FITS file format.

Description

Calling Sequence

fitsbin,file,INPATH=inpath,OUTPATH=outpath,BINFAC=binfac

Inputs

file - String (or array) of name of file to be binned. If the file name
includes a trailing .fits, the .fits is option on the file name.
The output file name will not include the .fits tag.

Optional Input Parameters

BINFAC - Binning factor (default=2).
INPATH - String, path to directory where data are to be read from.
Default=current directory
OUTPATH - String, path to directory where data are to be written.
Default=current directory
Note: if INPATH and OUTPATH end up being the same, then outpath is
changed by adding the directory name, binned, the end of the
path. WARNING: No attempt is made to resolved different means
of expressing the same directory. The test is made just by
a simple string comparison.

Keyword Input Parameters

Outputs

Keyword Output Parameters

Common Blocks

Side Effects

Restrictions

Procedure

Modification History

Written by Marc W. Buie, Lowell Observatory, 2000/06/22
2003/10/01, MWB, converted to IDL file_mkdir calls