FUNCTION imin,name,size,longs=longs

OPENR,unit,name,/GET_LUN
wsize=wlen(unit,size)
CASE wsize OF
1: image=BYTARR(size,size)
2: image=INTARR(size,size)
4: IF keyword_set(longs) THEN image=LONARR(256,256) $
	ELSE image=FLTARR(size,size)
ENDCASE
READU,unit,image
CLOSE,unit
FREE_LUN,unit
IF wsize EQ 2 THEN BEGIN
    IF (MIN(image) LT 0) THEN BYTEORDER,image
    IF (MIN(image) LT 0) THEN PRINT,'imin : image values don''t look right'
ENDIF
RETURN,image
END