Swap Endian

The conversion of endian format between SMA archival data to user's computers is taken care at the system level. Miriad task smalod set the default for big endian SMA archival data. For little endian SMA archival data, smalod provides an option (options=sendian) for converting little endian format to users' computer:

smalod in=120611_19:01:41 out=lendian.uv rxif=0 \
   options=sendian sideband=1

Note that smalod prepares to handle little endian SMA data as default as soon as the SMA online data computer is replaced by a little endian machine.