From: Lyle Huber

Date: April 5, 2007 10:22:06 AM PDT

To: Lyle Huber, Mitch Gordon

Cc: Mark Showalter, Nancy Chanover

Subject: CIRS comments

Mitch and Mark,

I have taken a not-as-detailed-as-I-would-like look at a sample of the 

reformatted CIRS data. My main comment is that it looks like it's in 

really good shape and I want to thank you guys for putting forth the 

effort to get the CIRS data into something more usable for the community.

A couple random PDS comments:

- As I noted to Mitch yesterday, there are some double quotes in DATASET.CAT

  that should be single quotes.

We will fix this.

- I really don't think FMT files should be used for INDEX TABLEs. You're

  using a separate FMT for each index anyway so why bother?

A valid point.  We will fold the format information into the labels.

- I'm not all that thrilled with the explicit FILE object labelling method.

  Are you trying to be consistent with the original labels or is it just

  because you wanted to have both ASCII and BINARY tables for everything?

  If it's the second, then I could come up with a reasonable alternative

  to using the FILE object but I'll raise that in a telecon.

We discussed the various options on the telecon without reaching a clear consensus.  One option is to add "_ASCII" and "_BINARY" suffixes to the file names, so that the label files can be distinguished.  Another is to populate separate directory trees with binary and ASCII data---but this has the disadvantage of separating files that logically belong together.  We will consider these options further and consult with Lyle.

Again, well done.

Lyle Huber

PDS Atmospheres Node