FITS_HELP

       To print a summary of the primary data units and extensions in a
       FITS file.
;

       FITS_HELP,filename_or_fcb

       FILENAME_OR_FCB - name of the fits file or the FITS Control Block (FCB)
               returned by FITS_OPEN.     For versions since V5.3, the
               file name is allowed to be gzip compressed (with a .gz
               extension)

       a summary of the fits file is printed.

       FITS_HELP,'myfile.fits'
       FITS_OPEN,'anotherfile.fits',fcb
       FITS_HELP,fcb

       FITS_OPEN, FITS_CLOSE

       Written by:     D. Lindler      August, 1995
       Converted to IDL V5.0   W. Landsman   September 1997
       Don't truncate EXTNAME values at 10 chars  W. Landsman Feb. 2005

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