the scanfits program

scanfits is a SOPHYA program using the FitsIOServer ⁴module which can be used to analyse the content of FITS files. It can list the FITS headers, the appropriate SOPHYA-FITS handler (implementing FitsHandlerInterface) class, and the list of all registered FITS handlers.

csh> scanfits -h
 PIOPersist::Initialize() Starting Sophya Persistence management service 
SOPHYA Version  2.0 Revision 0 (V_Jul2006) -- Jul 17 2006 14:13:27 cxx 
 Usage: scanfits [flags] filename 
 flags = -V1 -lh -rd -header 
   -V1 : Scan using old (V1) code version 
   -lh : Print the list of registered handlers (FitsHandlerInterface) 
   -rd : try to read each HDU data using appropriate handler 
   -header : List header information