Documentation on delhd


Task: delhd
Purpose: Delete a dataset item.
Categories: utility

   DELHD is a MIRIAD task to delete an item from a MIRIAD dataset.

   For image datasets items are not only header variables, such as
   ``crpix1'', ``datamin'' etc., but also the ``mask'' and ``image''
   items.
   For visibility datasets examples of items are ``wflags'', ``gains''
   and ``pdata'', but NOT the uv variables. They cannot be deleted.
   See also copyhd, itemize, mathd and puthd.

Key: in
   The name of an item within a dataset. This is given in the form:
          % delhd in=dataset/item

Generated by rsault@atnf.csiro.au on 11 Jul 1996