Writing an import task

In order to import data into SURF that has not been taken with the SCUBA VAX/VMS data acquisition system, it is necessary to convert the original file format to a form that SURF can understand. The file can be converted to the same format as written by the SCUBA acquisition system (§) or the format written by the reduce_switch task (§).

It is expected that the conversion of the data structure to the correct format will be fairly simple. The difficulty lies in generating the required FITS information (with the correct FITS keywords) and the NDF extensions.