Re: file naming

[<aah@nofs.navy.mil>]

Chris is concerned about files being moved around and
their uniqueness lost.  The concept was that files on
CD be unique with 8x3 character; files on disk can be
named anything you want.  Someone (sorry, my memory is
poor) suggested concatenating directory name with file
name for hard disk storage, which is one solution.
  Another option, which gets back to the Mark III days,
is to use that first character (which I've set to "J")
as a unique indicator of site.  That only gives you 26
sites without special characters or discrimination
between lower and upper case, but perhaps that would be
enough considering the time it takes Tom to finish
systems; he might not reach #26!  That is a reasonable
compromise to me, with the first character starting at
"A" for TOM, "B" for ARNE, etc. in order of completion.
  Therefore, the proposed scheme is
     ajjjjfxxx.fit
     a = unique site identifier
     jjjj = last 4 days of the Julian Date
     f = filter
     xxx = running sequence number starting at 000
     fit = file extension for fits files
This seems to be the simplest scheme, and might be almost
human-readable.  I'd still prefer files to be stored
on CD underneath a site directory.
Arne