SSCARIN performs the export of the SSDS specified by INP to a
SCAR format binary catalogues specified by OUT. Note that the
output
file name should not be preceded by a directory specification, nor
should a file extension be supplied. Two files are created called
<OUT>.DAT and DSCF<OUT>.DAT where <OUT> is the
value of the OUT parameter. For example,
> SSCARIN my_sources my_cat \ SSCARIN Version 1.5-1 > CAR_REPORT my_cat 2 NOSELECT \The SORT logical parameter (default
TRUE) controls whether the output file is sorted in
the standard SCAR fashion, ie. descending DEC,
ascending RA. If the file is sorted, then immediate cross-correlation
with most SCAR catalogues will be possible. If SORT is specified
FALSE then a field called NUMBER is created which is the ordinal
number of each source in the original SSDS. This field is required as
a SCAR catalogue must be sorted by some field.