Is the repeat count in TFORM descriptors provided purely for efficiency reasons, or does it have some implications for the logical structure of the data?...

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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...

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 ...

One of the changes that was made in the new 3.0 version of the FITS Standard document was to delete Appendix B, which described 2 conventions for storing...

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...

Dear Friends-of-FITS, William Pence wrote: ..1. A short (9 page) summary of the main recommendations.. I have examined the 'Recommended Changes' document...

As is customary, there will be a FITS "Birds of a Feather" (BoF) discussion session at the ADASS meeting in Quebec City on Tuesday, November 4th. This is a...

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Paddy Leahy wrote: On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, William Pence wrote: In the example you cite below, the binary table contains 12288 rows of data, and each row...

Hello folks, I'm a simple sort of chap, so I have a simple question! g Reading the IAUFWG v3 (2008 July 10) documentation for the Primary Data Array (page...

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) +...

Dear Bill, Thanks for the explanation... follow-up questions below: On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, William Pence wrote: Paddy, In the example you cite below,...

Dear Colleagues, I am pleased to announce that the IAU FITS Working Group has unanimously approved the draft 3.0 version of the FITS Standard as the new...

On Thu 2004-10-21T10:00:52 -0600, Eric Greisen hath writ: I did not suggest that we need to avoid files 2 GByte in size, just constructs like 64-bit...

I'm using the Cursor Iterator to dump and entire Header into a StringBuffer (perhaps there's an easier way to do this; I simply want to put the entire header...

On Mon 2008-06-16T16:52:34 -0400, William Pence hath writ: If anyone objects to the use of the phrase "regular lattice structure" in that first sentence...

On Fri 2004-10-22T14:02:16 -0400, Doug Mink hath writ: William Thompson wrote: One of the keywords introduced in this paper is MJD-AVG, representing the ...

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 ...