Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2012 07:28:14 +0800
From: Sheng-Yuan Liu 
To: Chunhua Qi 
Cc: Jun-Hui Zhao , Qizhou Zhang ,
     Dr. Eric Keto 
Subject: Re: MIR disclaimer

Dear Charlie,

        Thanks for drafting this. It sounds fine to me.
        One minor typo, "keywork", in the text.

best,
sheng-yuan

On Oct 15, 2012, at 11:10 PM, Chunhua Qi wrote:

> Hi Jun-Hui and Sheng-Yuan,
> 
> Sorry for the delay for the follow-up of idl2miriad issue.  I plan to put the following disclaimer
in the MIR cookbook. Let me know if you have any comments/suggestions:
> 
> DISCLAIMER: The MIRIAD format file output by idl2miriad should be used
> mainly for imaging purpose (e.g. INVERT, CLEAN and RESTOR). 
> Self-calibration ( e.g. SELFCAL) and some limited general purpose tasks 
> (e.g. graphic and data information display) should also work. 
> UVW coordinates and frequency (or velocity) header conversions should be
> done within MIR before the output. Note that if the MIR users prefer to use 
> SMA MIRIAD beta distribution for imaging, please set the keywork 'smamiriad' 
> to 1 (e.g. '/smamiriad') when using 'idl2imiriad' in MIR, and use 'options=nochk' 
> to disable the header check when using 'INVERT' in the SMA MIRIAD beta version. 
> 
> Please report any problem related to the idl2miriad output files to Charlie Qi and Sheng-Yuan Liu.
> 
> 
> Charlie