From dwells Wed Jan 11 15:41:55 1995 Received: by fits.cv.nrao.edu (4.1/DDN-DLB/1.5) id AA04056; Wed, 11 Jan 95 15:41:55 EST Return-Path: Date: Wed, 11 Jan 95 15:41:53 EST From: dwells (Don Wells) Message-Id: <9501112041.AA04050@fits.cv.nrao.edu> To: iaufwg Subject: BINTABLE paper ready for publication Sender: iaufwg-request@fits.CV.NRAO.EDU Dear Members of the IAU FITS Working Group, The BINTABLE paper is ready to be submitted to A&A Supplement Series. I have installed a copy of it (provided by Bill Cotton) into the FITS archive, at ftp://fits.cv.nrao.edu/fits/documents/standards/bintable_aa.ps.gz The previous version, bintable3, the one which the IAU-FWG approved by formal vote in June 1994 to beome a FITS standard, is now in directory ftp://fits.cv.nrao.edu/fits/documents/standards/bintable_old/ In addition to typesetting the document using the A&A macro package, two changes have been made by the authors (Cotton, Tody, Pence): (1) a new example header was substituted and (2) the wording of item_9 of section_3 was corrected. The latter change is signalled in the new document bintable_aa by footnote_4 on p_3. The second sentence of item_9 in the original (bintable3) text said: "Each byte of bit and byte arrays will be considered to be a signed [sic] integer for purposes of display"; the new (bintable_aa) text says "unsigned". I consider this to be a correction of an obvious typographical error. I have compared the text of bintable3 and bintable_aa, and find no other significant differences. Because bintable3 was approved by formal vote, and bintable_aa differs from it, it is possible that some members of IAU-FWG will feel that a new approval is needed. In addition, it is possible that some IAU-FWG member will find one or more further corrections to make before the paper is submitted. Therefore, please review the paper and submit any requests for re-vote to me and any corrections to Bill Cotton . If no re-vote is requested, Bill Cotton will submit the paper (with any further corrections) on Monday January 23rd. With best regards, Don Wells (Chair, IAU-FWG) -- Donald C. Wells Associate Scientist dwells@nrao.edu http://fits.cv.nrao.edu/~dwells National Radio Astronomy Observatory +1-804-296-0277 520 Edgemont Road, Charlottesville, Virginia 22903-2475 USA