On [Thu Aug 16 08:18], Eric Greisen wrote:
Random groups is by no means a dead format. Following the lead of the
FITS community I added to AIPS the ability to write interferometer
visibility data using binary table format instead. I believe that
none of the other major interferometry packages (casa, difmap, miriad,
etc) can read data written this way. They all read data written in
the random groups format and future plans seem to be more of the
same.

gosh, Miriad sure seems so old now, but we totally rely on the random
groups format for input/output to other packages. So, random groups may
be old, but it works and isn't broken.

- peter