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...

Are they any downloadable examples of FITS files which use the spectral WCS conventions proposed in paper III? I think it would be useful for modifying FITS...

"I can teach anyone how to get what they want out of life. The problem is I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want." -- Mark Twain "Today people in...

"I can teach anyone how to get what they want out of life. The problem is I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want." -- Mark Twain "Today people in...

Hi everybody, I'm an ungraduated student from Ecuador. I'm working on my final work in order to get my degree. I want to know how can I get the background...

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An implementation of the FITS keyword CHECKSUM in Java is available from our project web pages: http://www.strw.leidenuniv.nl/~nevec/PRIMA/javadoc/ - Click on...

Version 0.99.1 of the nom.tam.fits Java software/package to read/write FITS files has been made available in late July...

A patch to the nom.tam.fits JAVA package in http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/heasarc/fits/java/v1.0// enabling manipulation of the DATASUM keyword is...

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This FITS software is fantastic. I must learn how to use it. Richard Nacamuli Richard L. Nacamuli

William Pence wrote: Maybe I'm missing your point, but I don't see how that paper can be interpreted as an endorsement of the inherit convention. It...

Perhaps the discussion from 1993 and 1994 could be included verbatim, or linked by thread off the web page? I'd hate to hold a debate on a topic that was...

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...

Hi guys, Apologies if you see this more than once. FYI. A reminder that MD5 has been obsolete for several years. So obsolete that even the U.S. federal...

Thierry Forveille wrote: Is anyone on the list aware of uses of the MD5 checksum in FITS beyond protection against accidental bitflips from bad...

Work on the next release of the NOAO Science Archive has caused me to revisit an earlier selection of gzip (which itself was the result of an exercise in...

One additional point is that many vendor mass storage technologies can be configured with general purpose compression "built-in". Such a system can't take...

Bob says: I have to express some concern about registering the INHERIT convention. The documentation notes a number of potential problems that can...