Robert Hanisch wrote: The description of the HIERARCH convention is inconsistent, I think, regarding the length of the component tokens. At the top of...

The description of the HIERARCH convention is inconsistent, I think, regarding the length of the component tokens. At the top of p. 2 it says "Under the ESO...

As I recall, the definition of "deprecate" was carefully crafted to satisfy the radio interferometry community. The reason for deprecating random groups was...

Sorry for the late reply all. Been having severe trouble with my hosting. Anyway, just wanted to drop a quick "Thank you" to everyone; specifically...

On Mon 2007/08/27 10:19:32 MST, "Dick Shaw" wrote in a message to: "This term is used to refer to obsolete structures that _should...

On Mon 2007/08/27 11:32:19 -0400, Michael Williams wrote in a message to: Thierry Forveille and copied to:...

Looking at the current vs. proposed definitions of what it means to say that a structure is "deprecated" in FITS, and considering some of the discussion on...

On Monday 23 July 2007 21:03, William Pence wrote: Please post any comments, suggestions, or concerns regarding these proposals (or any other suggestions...

And so: The inescapable conclusion appears to be that EXTEND and NEXTEND are keywords that have outlived their usefulness, should be deprecated and ignored...

On Friday 24 August 2007 14:12, Randall Thompson wrote: If the consensus is that there should not be any connection between the primary header and ...

I understand this point however you can not prevent users from adding their own (conforming) keywords If the consensus is that there should not be any...

On Thursday 23 August 2007 23:15, Randall Thompson wrote: Although not a reserved keyword, NEXTEND is commonly used to describe the number of included...

On Thursday 23 August 2007 03:25, Tim Pearson wrote: My guess (it's a long time ago) is that there were FITS files out * there that had special records...

On Tuesday 21 August 2007 19:10, Steve Allen wrote: A question for those who have been around longer than I: Does "once FITS always FITS" mean I'm may...

On Tue 2007/08/21 17:56:49 -0400, William Pence wrote in a message to: FITSBITS The difference here is that I was quoting the revised...

sorry, didn't mean to send this to Bill (Pence) only. Maren Purves wrote: Bill, I read this like Bill Thompson. The fact that the standard requires ...

Perhaps there is a consensus building to back off from an absolute ban on duplicate keywords. Here's my reply to Bill's latest in any event - kind of a...

The way we solved fixing the order of HISTORY keywords in headers of Chandra FITS files was to reserve the last 8 characters for a sequence label (3 chars) +...

Two (smallish) problems with HISTORY text 1 HISTORY text 2 ... 1. If the original texts+comments fill the full 80 byte card image, the last 8 characters,...

gberz3 wrote: Thanks Maren. One question I suppose I've just forgotten to ask: Is there anything particularly special about the actual graphics content ...