On Thursday 16 August 2007 16:32, Peter Teuben wrote: So, random groups may be old, but it works and isn't broken. Yes of course. Rereading the FITS v3...

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 ...

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...

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

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 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 ...

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

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...

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,...

On Thu 2007-08-16T17:22:29 +0200, eggpap hath writ: how to know programmatically if a fit/fits extension file is a true fit file? The quickest test is the...

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 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 ...

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