One of the proposed changes to the FITS Standard is a complete rewrite of the Appendix F (previously Appendix I) which lists the reserved FITS extension type...

On Thursday 16 August 2007 21:51, William Pence wrote: The question is what do we (the FITS community in general, and the IAUFWG in particular) do now?...

I agree with Thierry that there are many files which have repeated keywords, but I agree with another poster that there are existing implementations...

I'll just second this. I have seen many cases where a FITS header gets multiple keyword instances after it has been modified by different programs. This is...

On Fri, 17 Aug 2007, Doug Tody wrote: If we ever do a FITS 2.0 we should revisit this, but it is hard to do more at this point for standard FITS than...

Actually it should probably be 1.3, but 3.0 if you prefer! On Sat, 18 Aug 2007, Boud Roukema wrote: On Fri, 17 Aug 2007, Doug Tody wrote: If we ever...

On Fri 2007/08/17 13:18:40 -0400, William Pence wrote in a message to: FITSBITS For example, version 2.0 of the FITS Standard introduced...

Regarding versioning - I don't think FITS has changed enough to warrant versioning. The changes being discussed are minor, and of limited consequence since...

On Sun 2007-08-19T20:40:45 -0600, Doug Tody hath writ: Regarding versioning - I don't think FITS has changed enough to warrant versioning. I agree. The...

Doug said: Regarding versioning - I don't think FITS has changed enough to warrant versioning. I tend to agree, but wanted to point out that such...

Jonathan is quite correct that when duplicated keywords appear with different values, it is not in general possible to know which value was intended. On Fri,...

Jonathan McDowell a écrit : I agree with Thierry that there are many files which have repeated keywords, but I agree with another poster that there are...

Doug Tody a écrit : I'll just second this. I have seen many cases where a FITS header gets multiple keyword instances after it has been modified by...

I have no new suggestions on how to handle "old" FITS files with multiple keyword occurances, but we might consider a convention to reduce the problem in the...

Meant to send this to fitsbits: Begin forwarded message: From: Rob Seaman Date: August 20, 2007 8:50:12 AM MST To: Walter Jaffe...

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

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,...

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) +...

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...

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 ...