Hi Bill - Since the convention is in use for actual data, we should probably follow our existing practice of merely documenting existing conventions, and...

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,...

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 ...

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...

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, Doug Tody wrote: My personal view on the more general question is that Image should only be used for image data, and it is a trick to stuff...

Hi Maren - This is a good question, for which there is no real answer. One can do these things, so the question becomes is it good practice? What should we...

On Thu 2007/08/16 11:54:16 -1000, Maren Purves wrote in a message to: Doug Tody and copied to: William Pence , ...

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...

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...

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