MissFITS is a program that performs basic maintenance and packaging tasks on
FITS files:
- add/edit FITS header keywords
- split/join Multi-Extension-FITS (MEF) files
- unpack/pack FITS data-cubes
- create/check/update FITS checksums, using R. Seaman's protocol
	( see http://www.adass.org/adass/proceedings/adass94/seamanr.html)
- compress/decompress FITS data (*not yet available*)

This file describes shortly the SYNTAX of MissFITS.
See INSTALL for instructions about install.
For more information, please refer to the documentation
(see http://astromatic.iap.fr/software/missfits/)

The general SYNTAX is similar to that of SExtractor or SWarp:

% missfits [<fits_file1>, <fits_file2>,...] [-c <Configuration_file>]
        [-<keyword> <value>] ...

- Keyword parameters given in the command line override those from the
  configuration file.
- If the list-file is given as unique argument, MissFITS looks for a
  default configuration file called ``default.missfits''. If no configuration
  file is available, MissFITS uses internal defaults.

% missfits -d

prints a default configuration file on the standard output

Please report any bug or strange behaviour on the MissFITS Forum at
http://astromatic.net/forum/

				Chiara Marmo <marmo@u-psud.fr>
				Emmanuel Bertin <bertin@iap.fr>

