This configuration file enables to adjust Anatomist behaviour when loading and displaying images in Analyze format... This configuration exsits since Aims 2.13. It can be useful for SPM99 and SPM2 users. Indeed, the way normalized images are managed have changed between the 2 versions. See Appendix B, Display convention according to Aims version above.
To know which convention display should be used, Anatomist can search in several files in the following order :
.minf file of the image
If there is no information about the convention, Anatomist search for the user configuration file $HOME/.aimsrc
If this file doesn't exist, the configuration file of aims is used : <package>/share/aims/.aimsrc or $AIMS_PATH/shared/aimsrc or $BRAINVISA_SHARE/aims/aimsrc.