Make a casa ms from a sdm-bdf fileset ...

csh shell for now ..
source /home/ballista/casa/devel/casainit.csh

>asdm2MS /home/evlangas-2/test_files/X_000.54784.452835358796


John-

First, you want to launch casapy-test  (-test gets you
the latest version), and then at the CASA prompt:

exportuvfits(<output>,<input>,datacolumn='data',combinespw=True,async=True)

where you supply <input> and <output> (filenames).

Typically, <output> = <input>+'.ms'    (and the resulting MS is a 
directory)

datacolumn='data' means to write out the (observed) data from the MS.

combinespw=True means to combine the spectral windows (IFs) into a single
FREQID in the UVFITS file (important!)

async=True means it will run in the background  (there are some problems
with the non-async mode in our FITS classes)

We can check with Wes next week about running all of this 
non-interactively (I'm not sure how to supply the filenames).  He's out 
until next week I think---3 wisdom teeth pulled yesterday!

-George