Abstract

The CONVERT package contains utilities for converting data files between Starlink's Extensible n-dimensional Data Format (NDF), which is used by most Starlink applications, and a number of other common data formats. Using these utilities, astronomers can process their data selecting the best applications from a variety of Starlink or other packages.

Most of the CONVERT utilities may be run from the shell or ICL in the normal way, or invoked automatically by the NDF library's `on-the-fly' data-conversion system, but there are also IDL procedures for handling NDFs from within IDL.