NAME

       tofits - Turn a list of keyrecords to a valid FITS file

DESCRIPTION

       tofits  turns a list of FITS header keyrecords, one per line, into a proper FITS header by
       padding them with blanks to 80 characters and stripping out newline characters.   It  also
       pads the header to an integral number of 2880- byte blocks if necessary.

       The  input byte stream is assumed to be ASCII-encoded.  Characters outside the set of text
       characters allowed by FITS (ASCII 0x20 to 0x7E) are ignored with the sole exception that a
       byte with value 0xA0 (non-breaking space in all variants of ISO/IEC 8859) is translated to
       an ordinary space (0x20).   Thus  input  encoded  in  ISO/IEC  8859  or  UTF-8  should  be
       interpreted correctly, with any illegal characters in keycomments simply being ignored.

       tofits  has no options and operates as a filter, reading from stdin and writing to stdout,
       e.g.

              tofits < infile > outfile

       Input lines beginning with '#' are treated as comments.