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Old August 20th 07, 03:26 PM posted to sci.astro.fits
Thierry Forveille
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Default [fitsbits] Proposed Changes to the FITS Standard

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 different
programs. This is awful of course as the header is then ambiguous,
but it happens. Software may or may not use the last instance as
a runtime value; for example, if the software does a linear search
through the header it is possible that it will take the first value
encountered (for either reading or writing) as this is more efficient,
and there are not supposed to be multiple keyword instances.

Well, if the software does a linear search through the header,
I think it already relinquished its right to invoke
efficiency considerations :-)


 




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