intermediate step in 10830 processing.
writetape input_root tape_name
getname
Root name for input files.
getmtape
Tape file descriptor.
Writetape takes as input five(5) full disk grams in IRAF image format and writes them to tape in a format identicle to the original full disk grams produced on the vacuum telescope. The input image names are expected to be the "input_root" name concatinated with the numbers "1", "2", ... "5". Writetape calls 'writevt' and is a cl script file.
1. To write five files with root name m1585 to tape mta, the command would be:
vt> writetape m1585 mta