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Last modified: 2 December 2008

URL: http://cxc.harvard.edu/ciao4.1/bugs/dmhedit.html

Bugs: dmhedit


Caveats

  1. The Data Model does not support writing to gzip'ed files.

Bugs

  1. dmhedit does not return an error if asked to modify a gzipped file. (07 Mar 2008)


Caveats

  1. The Data Model does not support writing to gzip'ed files.

    The Data Model does not support writing to gzip'ed files, even if the CIAO installation was configured with gzip support. General write support for gzip'ed files will not be added anytime in the near future, so users should gunzip their files first if it is necessary to modify them.


Bugs

  1. dmhedit does not return an error if asked to modify a gzipped file. (07 Mar 2008)

    unix% dmhedit infile=evt1.fits.gz filelist=none operation=add key=RANGELEV value=115
    unix% echo $status
    0 
    
Last modified: 2 December 2008


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