Index: trunk/psLib/src/fits/psFits.c
===================================================================
--- trunk/psLib/src/fits/psFits.c	(revision 4891)
+++ trunk/psLib/src/fits/psFits.c	(revision 4898)
@@ -7,6 +7,6 @@
  *  @author Robert DeSonia, MHPCC
  *
- *  @version $Revision: 1.42 $ $Name: not supported by cvs2svn $
- *  @date $Date: 2005-08-27 01:33:41 $
+ *  @version $Revision: 1.43 $ $Name: not supported by cvs2svn $
+ *  @date $Date: 2005-08-30 01:14:13 $
  *
  *  Copyright 2004-2005 Maui High Performance Computing Center, University of Hawaii
@@ -253,4 +253,11 @@
     return fits;
 }
+
+
+bool psMemCheckFits(psPtr ptr)
+{
+    return ( psMemGetDeallocator(ptr) == (psFreeFunc)fitsFree );
+}
+
 
 bool psFitsMoveExtName(const psFits* fits,
Index: trunk/psLib/src/fits/psFits.h
===================================================================
--- trunk/psLib/src/fits/psFits.h	(revision 4891)
+++ trunk/psLib/src/fits/psFits.h	(revision 4898)
@@ -7,6 +7,6 @@
  *  @author Robert DeSonia, MHPCC
  *
- *  @version $Revision: 1.19 $ $Name: not supported by cvs2svn $
- *  @date $Date: 2005-06-22 03:00:27 $
+ *  @version $Revision: 1.20 $ $Name: not supported by cvs2svn $
+ *  @date $Date: 2005-08-30 01:14:13 $
  *
  *  Copyright 2004-2005 Maui High Performance Computing Center, University of Hawaii
@@ -62,4 +62,15 @@
 );
 
+/** Checks the type of a particular pointer.
+ *
+ *  Uses the appropriate deallocation function in psMemBlock to check the ptr datatype.
+ *
+ *  @return bool:       True if the pointer matches a psFits structure, false otherwise.
+ */
+bool psMemCheckFits(
+    psPtr ptr                          ///< the pointer whose type to check
+);
+
+
 /** Moves the FITS HDU to the specified extension name.
  *