The RICE compressed files still have extension .fits. The Fpack and Funpack utilities normally extend the filename with .fz Following this standard would make it more universal.
Han
The compressed output file name is usually constructed by appending “.fz” to the input file name
Hello Han, thanks for the info. This may be a little difficult to change our code to manage double extensions like .fits.fz, but it’s good to know, we’ll think about it.