Index: trunk/psLib/src/fileUtils/psFits.c
===================================================================
--- trunk/psLib/src/fileUtils/psFits.c	(revision 2973)
+++ trunk/psLib/src/fileUtils/psFits.c	(revision 2975)
@@ -7,6 +7,6 @@
  *  @author Robert DeSonia, MHPCC
  *
- *  @version $Revision: 1.8 $ $Name: not supported by cvs2svn $
- *  @date $Date: 2005-01-13 20:48:59 $
+ *  @version $Revision: 1.9 $ $Name: not supported by cvs2svn $
+ *  @date $Date: 2005-01-13 21:09:39 $
  *
  *  Copyright 2004 Maui High Performance Computing Center, University of Hawaii
@@ -522,11 +522,23 @@
                 break;
             case 'C':
-                success = psMetadataAdd(out,
-                                        PS_LIST_TAIL,
-                                        keyName,
-                                        PS_TYPE_U8,
-                                        PS_META_STR,
-                                        keyComment,
-                                        keyValue);
+                // remove the single-quotes at front/end
+                if (keyValue[0] == '\'' && keyValue[strlen(keyValue)-1] == '\'') {
+                    keyValue[strlen(keyValue)-1] = '\0';
+                    success = psMetadataAdd(out,
+                                            PS_LIST_TAIL,
+                                            keyName,
+                                            PS_TYPE_PTR,
+                                            PS_META_STR,
+                                            keyComment,
+                                            keyValue+1);
+                } else {
+                    success = psMetadataAdd(out,
+                                            PS_LIST_TAIL,
+                                            keyName,
+                                            PS_TYPE_PTR,
+                                            PS_META_STR,
+                                            keyComment,
+                                            keyValue);
+                }
                 break;
             case 'L':