Naming Conventions

To help bookkeeping and enable recognition of file types based on their extensions, observers and operators MUST use the following file extension conventions:

• The file extension length should not exceed 12 characters.
• .LOG-OBS for OBS logfiles, .LOG-RDI for RDI logfiles,
• .IPB for CLIC data files.
• .OPT for optical pointing data, .OPTICAL for optical pointing fits, .RAD for radio pointing data, .RADIO for radio pointing fits,
• .OBS, .CLASS, .GREG, .CLIC, .ASTRO, etc... for commands procedures for OBS, CLASS, GreG, CLIC, ASTRO, and other SIC based programs.
• .GDF for GILDAS images, or .LMV (and its permutations) for data cubes (to indicate Longitude Latitude Velocity cube and other possible orders), and .UVT for UV-tables.
• .GILDAS for GILDAS tasks logfiles (compulsory).

Data files from RDI (.IPB respectively) are named from the observing date, DD-mmm-YYYY. The same name should be kept for the corresponding reduced data files, additional keywords should be appended to the extension in this case.