[Kst] [Bug 123399] error reading certain fits files

[Carrie MacTavish]

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------- Additional Comments From cmactavi physics utoronto ca  2006-03-14 05:26 -------
using data wizard...have 0 to read to end checked...reads in 2001 elements 
fine--this isn't the problem..problem is that kst tells me all 18 cols of 
data (2001 elements each) are identical in this file--with IDL they 
aren't...not sure how the two programs parse fits files differently...

>
> I tried this with HEAD (I don't think the datasources have changed much since
> 1.2).  The datasource that gets picked up is LFIIO.  In the "new vector"
> dialog, the default start sample is larger than the size of the file.  If I
> set the start to zero and the check the "read to end" box, then it correctly
> reads 2001 elements.
>
> Carrie- did you just select the file and click "ok" (which would use the bogus
> start sample), or does it not read in the vector even if you explicitly
> choose to start at "0" and read to end?
>
> Either way, it seems like the default start sample should be zero (unless the
> user has already opened this file and the state is saved in the global
> config).
>
> -Ted
>