PDL::IO::NDF
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This module allows Starlink NDF files (http://www.starlink.ac.uk)
to be written and read from the Perl Data Language. All numerical
array components are read as PDLs.

The PDL home page can be found at http://pdl.perl.org/

  use PDL::IO::NDF;
  $a = rndf("test.sdf");
  $a->wndf("output.sdf");

Requirements:
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Requires the following modules from CPAN

   PDL
   Astro::FITS::Header

PDL 2.4.x or newer is required.

You will also need the NDF module available from
git://starlink.jach.hawaii.edu/perl-NDF.git and the NDF library
from a Starlink distribution (http://www.starlink.ac.uk).

Installation
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To install this package independently of the main package type:

 perl Build.PL
 ./Build
 ./Build test
 ./Build install

Authors
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Tim Jenness <tjenness@cpan.org> and Douglas Burke <dburke@cfa.harvard.edu>.
Currently maintained by Tim Jenness.

Copyright (C) 1998 - 2012 Tim Jenness. All Rights Reserved.  This program is free
software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same
terms as Perl itself.

Changes
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  v1.04  - Extracted from PDL distribution and released standalone.
         - Uses Module::Build
         - Fixes to bad value support.
         - FITS header parsing now done by Astro::FITS::Header
         - Status handling much improved.
         - Add quickread option to rndf that only reads the primary
           data array and FITS header.

  v1.03  - Bad value support added by Doug Burke


