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From: dwells at fits.CV.NRAO.EDU (Don Wells)
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    [I have added sci.astro.fits to the Newsgroups line -DCW]

In article <CJ26DF.B5I at space.physics.uiowa.edu>
    rlm at astro.physics.uiowa.edu (Robert Mutel) writes:

 RM> .. an ambiguity with [all] 16-bit integer FITS files, viz that
 RM> the most  significant bit (MSB) is either treated as a sign bit
 RM> or a magnitude bit. ..

There is no ambiguity in the definition of FITS for BITPIX=16: FITS
readers should always construe 16-bit pixels as 2-s complement signed
integers. FITS readers should also obey the BSCALE and BZERO keywords
when they are present (and should default to BSCALE=1 and BZERO=0 when
they are absent).  The formula which FITS readers should use to
interpret FITS pixels is

    physical_value = BZERO + BSCALE * array_value

(See Eq.5.3 in Sect.5.2.2.5 on p.19 of the NOST 100-1.0 version of the
FITS standard, or item III.D.1 on p.368 of the Basic FITS paper in
June 1981 A&A supplement Series, or Eq.3.2 in Sect.3.1.1.2 of the NOST
FITS User's Guide).  

 RM> The ST-6 uses the MSB as a mag. bit, so that FITS readers which
 RM> treat it as a sign bit will 'fold' all intensities i>32767 to
 RM> -65536+i. .. We have both ST-6 and HPC-1 cameras, both of which
 RM> use the MSB as a magnitude bit. ..

16-bit A-to-D converters produce unsigned integers; unsigned integers
are not supported by FITS.  When these pixels are being written to
FITS files with BITPIX=16 the camera software can utilize the optional
BZERO FITS keyword to shift the zero point of the number system in
order to give a 16-bit positive range instead of the default positive
and negative 15-bit range. The camera software should subtract 32768
from the pixels (or, equivalently, add 8000_hex) and set BZERO=32768
and BSCALE=1 in the header. If this is done, properly coded FITS
readers will construe the pixels correctly.
--

  Donald C. Wells         Associate Scientist         dwells at nrao.edu
                    http://fits.cv.nrao.edu/~dwells
  National Radio Astronomy Observatory                +1-804-296-0277
  520 Edgemont Road,   Charlottesville, Virginia       22903-2475 USA

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In article <CJ26DF.B5I at space.physics.uiowa.edu>, rlm at astro.physics.uiowa.edu writes...
>In article ck2 at canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca, youngs at cc.umanitoba.ca (Scott D. Young) writes:
>>
>>   Just a note to anyone who is using the ST-6 software: it does NOT support
>>   the FITS format. Yes, I know there is an option to save a file as a "FITS"
>>   but it does not work. They write the file incorrectly; something about
>>   flipping the high-order bit or something (I'm not sure of the details). 
>>   ... 
>This is not quite correct.  The exported FITS format of  ST-6 images is
>fine except for an ambiguity with [all] 16-bit integer FITS files, viz
>that the most  significant bit (MSB) is either treated as a sign bit or
>a magnitude bit. 

Sixteen-bit integers in FITS are signed. BITPIX=16 signifies that the 
data are two-byte signed integers.  FITS does not support a 16-bit 
unsigned integer data type.  BITPIX=8 represents unsigned, 8-bit 
integers.

>The ST-6 uses the MSB as a mag. bit, so that FITS
>readers which treat it as a sign bit will 'fold' all intensities
>i>32767 to -65536+i. 

This practice means that any files ST-6 produces are not in
conformance to standard FITS.  If they are otherwise going to be in
syntax similar to FITS, they should begin with SIMPLE=F, to indicate
this departure. 

> [...but a FITS expert can comment.] 

				Barry  Schlesinger
				NSSDC/NOST 	
				FITS Support Office

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                WGAS Activities at the Washington AAS Meeting
                          Saturday 15 January 1994
                ---------------------------------------------

                         Robert J. Hanisch, Chair
                             hanisch at stsci.edu


The Working Group on Astronomical Software will meet in Session 118 (Saturday
morning, 10:15) to hear several contributed papers and begin discussion of WGAS
business matters (FITS standard, electronic publishing, network information
services, etc.).  All members of the AAS are welcome to attend and participate
in the discussion.  The WGAS Business Meeting will continue over lunch should
additional time be needed..

The WGAS is also pleased to sponsor a special session on Networked Information
Resources (Session 124, Saturday afternoon, 2:15).  The invited talks in this
session are targetted at astronomers who want to know how to make better use of
the wealth of astronomical information and databases that are now available on
the Internet.  See below for more information.


       Special Session: Networked Information Resources for Astronomy
       --------------------------------------------------------------

In the last few years there has been a virtual explosion in the amount of
information available on the Internet, and astronomers are in a particularly
good position to benefit.  Astronomical catalogs, databases, and archives are
now widely available from a variety on on-line services, and electronic
information discovery and retrieval is becoming an extremely valuable resource
for doing astronomical research.  This session will feature invited talks that
highlight new developments, with a special emphasis on how these services
facilitate astronomical research.  The Working Group on Astronomical Software
is pleased to sponsor this presentation (Session 124, Saturday afternoon).

Detailed program for Session 124:

1.  "Network Information Resources for Astronomy,"  R. J. Hanisch (ST ScI).

2.  "The Astrophysics Data System -- A Flexible Science Tool,"
    G. Eichhorn, S. Murray (SAO), T. Snow (CASA), J. Good (IPAC).

3.  "Doing Research with the NASA Extragalactic Database (NED),"
    B. Madore, G. Helou (IPAC).

4.  "Doing Astronomy with the HST Data Archive,"  S. Baum, K. Long (ST ScI).

5.  "Distributed Astronomical Data Archives,"  J. Fullton (CNIDR).

6.  "Information Discovery and Retrieval,"  A. Warnock (Hughes-STX).

7.  "Electronic Publishing in Astronomy,"  H. Dalterio, P. Boyce (AAS).


---
Robert J. Hanisch                       Tel. (410)338-4910   Fax. (410)338-5090
Space Telescope Science Institute       NSI: hanisch at stsci.edu [130.167.1.2]
3700 San Martin Drive                   DECNet: STSCIC::HANISCH [6549::] 
Baltimore, MD  21218  USA               Bitnet: hanisch at stsci


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To:       Prospective authors of BAAS Technical Reports
From:     Bob Hanisch, Chair, AAS Working Group on Astronomical Software
          Judy Johnson, AAS Executive Office
Subject:  Call for papers and instructions to authors
Date:     10 January 1994


As you may be aware, the Working Group on Astronomical Software of the AAS
publishes technical and facilities reports in the  Bulletin of the American
Astronomical Society.  We will be publishing WGAS Reports in the issue of the
Bulletin which is scheduled for distribution in late May, 1994.

Contributions may be either technical reports about a particular program,
algorithm, computer system, etc., that you feel would be of interest to other
members of the AAS, or facilities reports describing this year's progress with
a major data analysis system (IRAF, AIPS, MIDAS, etc.).  There is no strict
limit to the amount of pages, but three to five pages is generally the norm.

Papers may be submitted either electronically or in camera-ready form.
Complete instructions for preparation of electronic manuscripts are given in
the file pubs/baas/baasman.tex on blackhole.aas.org [192.102.234.112], which is
accessible via anonymous FTP.  Instructions for preparation of camera-ready
manuscripts are given in the file pubs/baas/camera_ready.txt.  If you have
difficulty in obtaining these files via FTP, call or send e-mail to Judy
Johnson and she can arrange to fax this information to you.  Electronic
submissions must be prepared using the BAAS Technical Notes style file,
baas.sty, which is located in the same directory.  Electronic manuscripts
should be submitted via e-mail to Judy Johnson (address below).  Please note
that we will generate the final pages from the electronic inputs in order to
assure that a consistent set of fonts and a uniform page layout is used.
Camera-ready manuscripts should be sent by post to the AAS Executive Office,
BAAS Technical Reports, 1630 Connecticut Ave. NW, Washington, DC  20009.

The deadline for receipt of manuscripts, either in electronic or camera-ready
form, is February 22, 1994.

Once we have received your report and approved it for style and content, we
will send you a copyright agreement form and a reprint order form.  Page
charges are $80/page and reprint prices are listed on the order form.

You will also receive a galley proof of your report from the publisher, the
American Institute of Physics.  You may proofread for publisher errors only.
Details are included in the instructions provided by AIP with the galleys.

Please feel free to call Judy if you have questions about style or preparation
of manuscripts, or Bob with questions regarding content.


Bob Hanisch,  tel. 410-338-4910, e-mail hanisch at stsci.edu
Judy Johnson, tel. 202-338-2010, e-mail johnson at aas.org
-- 
Robert J. Hanisch                       Tel. (410)338-4910   Fax. (410)338-5090
Space Telescope Science Institute       NSI: hanisch at stsci.edu [130.167.1.2]
3700 San Martin Drive                   DECNet: STSCIC::HANISCH [6549::] 
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For more information:      info at spyglass.com

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Award-winning Spyglass Transform set the visual data analysis standard
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Already established in the Macintosh and UNIX markets, Spyglass
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Spyglass Transform's versatile data import capability makes it
extremely easy for users to import datasets from from ASCII
spreadsheet files or binary data files. Spyglass Transform also
automatically reads MATLAB(R), GIF, PBM, and XWD files, as well as
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With Spyglass Transform, users can quickly and easily add floating
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Subject: Spectrum data display with IMDISP ?
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 1994 15:57:21 GMT

I have pulled some FITS formatted spectra data from
the space telescope institute.  I am having trouble
display the calibrated data using IMDISP.
 
Is this the wrong tool ?

I can display the individual files, however according
to the write ups one file should contain the calibration
data and the other the actual data.  I see no hints in the
IMDISP mannual on how to combine these files into a useable
display.

Thanks for any assistance
John

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		 God for golf   J.Tull with modifications
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	Can someone post the charter for this newsgroup?

thanks,
-- Brian

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In article <2hegts$174 at usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, xx347 at cleveland.Freenet.Edu
   (SEDS) writes: 

Brian> 	Can someone post the charter for this newsgroup?

Sure.  Also accessible via anonymous ftp (and WWW) on fits.cv.nrao.edu.
I've edited out the CFV (call for votes) stuff.

>From dwells at fits.CX.NRAO.EDU Fri Feb 14 11:54:35 1992
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>From: dwells at fits.CX.NRAO.EDU (Don Wells)
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Greetings

I am in the unfortunate position of having to run MS-DOS on my workstation
but I need to be able to manipulate FITS files ( not always TABLES ). Does
anyone know of a comprehensive ( or otherwise ) FITS file manipulation 
package for MS-DOS. I already have, and use, the FITS Table Browser, but
this only works for TABLES ( surprise, surprise ). 

Many thanks in advance
David
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Date: 18 Jan 1994 15:42:24 GMT

Damn!

Thats oak.oakland.edu. Directory is pub/msdos/astrnomy.

Greg
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Date: 18 Jan 1994 15:41:29 GMT

>From article <758899924snz at regulus.demon.co.uk>, by daves at regulus.demon.co.uk ("David M. Swain"):
> Greetings
> 
> I am in the unfortunate position of having to run MS-DOS on my workstation
> but I need to be able to manipulate FITS files ( not always TABLES ). Does
> anyone know of a comprehensive ( or otherwise ) FITS file manipulation 
> package for MS-DOS. I already have, and use, the FITS Table Browser, but
> this only works for TABLES ( surprise, surprise ). 
> 

The only one I'm aware of is IMDISP, written by some guys at JPL and
Goddard. It must be available at several sites, but start at oak.okland.edu
inn the pub/msdos/astrnomy (note 1 o) directory.

If you learn of others, please post here.

Greg
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families above the poverty line. Only about one out of four federal benefit
dollars even flows to a program that uses financial need as a criterion for
elegibility.

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>From article <758899924snz at regulus.demon.co.uk>, by daves at regulus.demon.co.uk ("David M. Swain"):
> Greetings
> 
> I am in the unfortunate position of having to run MS-DOS on my workstation
> but I need to be able to manipulate FITS files ( not always TABLES ). Does
> anyone know of a comprehensive ( or otherwise ) FITS file manipulation 
> package for MS-DOS. I already have, and use, the FITS Table Browser, but
> this only works for TABLES ( surprise, surprise ). 
> 
Okay, since I screwed up 2X already, here are the results of an ARCHIE
search:


Host ftp.edvz.univie.ac.at

    Location: /pc/dos/graphics
           FILE -rw-r--r--     340909  May 31 1993  imdisp79.zip

Host freebsd.cdrom.com

    Location: /.2/simtel/msdos/graphics
           FILE -rw-r--r--     340909  May 31 1993  imdisp79.zip

Host ftp.wustl.edu

    Location: /systems/ibmpc/msdos/graphics
           FILE -r--r--r--     340909  May 30 1993  imdisp79.zip

Host ftp.technion.ac.il

    Location: /pub/unsupported/dos/simtel/graphics
           FILE -rwxr--r--     340909  Jun  1 00:00  imdisp79.zip

Host ftp.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp

    Location: /MSDOS/simtel20-archive/graphics
           FILE -rw-rw-r--     340909  May 31 1993  imdisp79.zip
    Location: /mirrors/simtel20.msdos/graphics
           FILE -rw-rw-r--     340909  May 31 1993  imdisp79.zip

Host ftp.iij.ad.jp

    Location: /.5/msdos/graphics
           FILE -r--r--r--     340909  May 30 1993  imdisp79.zip

Host cair.kaist.ac.kr

    Location: /systems/msdos/simtel/msdos/graphics
           FILE -r-xr-xr-x     336208  Jan 30 1993  imdisp79.zip

Host ftp.uu.net

    Location: /systems/ibmpc/msdos/simtel20/graphics
           FILE -rw-rw-r--     340909  May 31 1993  imdisp79.zip

Host ntu.ac.sg

    Location: /archive3/msdos/graphics
           FILE -r--r--r--     340909  May 31 1993  imdisp79.zip

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From: ron at argus.lpl.Arizona.EDU (Ron Watkins)
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Subject: FITS header cards
Date: 19 Jan 1994 15:57:08 GMT

I was wondering if there is support for using CRVAL and CRDELT within
FITS tables? We have a data format that im looking into formatting into
a FITS table. Each record (of our data) contains various values and an
array. The values are of differing formats but the array is fixed at 126
single precision values representing counts at some wavelength. I had
wanted to use CRPIX, CRVAL, and CRDELT to specify the wavelengths for the
array but it doesn't apply to any of the other values in the table row other
than the array. Is there FITS support for doing this? I can only find
references for CRVAL and such in the primary HDU of the FITS files. I couldn't
find it for the FITS extensions. By the way, is there any documentation for
the extension 'IMAGE' or is it just too obvious to bother. It's rather
obvious to me unless im missing somthing subtle. Thanks for any help,
				Ron Watkins
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In article <2hjl8k$sl4 at organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>, ron at argus.lpl.Arizona.EDU (Ron Watkins) writes...
>I was wondering if there is support for using CRVAL and CRDELT within
>FITS tables? We have a data format that im looking into formatting into
>a FITS table. Each record (of our data) contains various values and an
>array. The values are of differing formats but the array is fixed at 126
>single precision values representing counts at some wavelength. I had
>wanted to use CRPIX, CRVAL, and CRDELT to specify the wavelengths for the
>array but it doesn't apply to any of the other values in the table row other
>than the array. Is there FITS support for doing this? I can only find
>references for CRVAL and such in the primary HDU of the FITS files. I couldn't
>find it for the FITS extensions. 

The above does not specify whether an ASCII table or a binary table is
intended.  The proposed structure appears to fit most naturally in an
extension of type BINTABLE, where the array could appear as a single
field.  There has been some talk, particularly within the single dish
community, of conventions for use of the terms CRVALn, CRPIXn and
CDELTn to describe an array contained in one field of a binary table. 
Perhaps one of the people involved could step forward and say where
this discussion stands. 

> By the way, is there any documentation for >the extension 'IMAGE' or
is it just too obvious to bother. 

A LaTeX version of the proposal is available by anonymous ftp from
nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov, in the FITS directory. 

				Barry Schlesinger
				NSSDC/NOST FITS Support Office 

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> I was wondering if there is support for using CRVAL and CRDELT within
> FITS tables?  [stuff deleted]     I had
> wanted to use CRPIX, CRVAL, and CRDELT to specify the wavelengths for the
> array but it doesn't apply to any of the other values in the table row other
> than the array. Is there FITS support for doing this? I can only find
> references for CRVAL and such in the primary HDU of the FITS files. I couldn't
> find it for the FITS extensions. 
> 				Ron Watkins

I had posted a note to this news group on 31 Aug 1993 describing some
ideas on how to modify the coordinate system keywords currently used in
primary HDUs to describe images stored in binary tables.  The ftp site
at fits.cv.nrao.edu should have a copy of it, as well as a copy of the
subsequent discussion.

In the meantime, our local FITS working group has further expanded on
this idea, and is drafting a document describing a proposed set of
coordinate system keywords for various types of FITS image
representations (not just in a primary HDU).  This is directly based on
and extends the 24 Aug 1993 draft of the document entitled
'Representation of Celestial Coordinates in FITS' by Greisen and
Calabretta.  Hopefully we should be able to post a draft of this
document here by the end of this week or early next week.

-Bill Pence

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BARRY M. SCHLESINGER writes...
>  There has been some talk, particularly within the single dish
>community, of conventions for use of the terms CRVALn, CRPIXn and
>CDELTn to describe an array contained in one field of a binary table. 
>Perhaps one of the people involved could step forward and say where
>this discussion stands. 


In 1989 there was a meeting in Green Bank, WV to discuss a FITS
convention for single dish data sets.  There was a draft document from
that meeting which was never published. However programs were written
in Green Bank as part of the UniPops single dish data analysis system
to support this format. Basically each table row can contain a data
matrix similar to the basic FITS primary data array.  Since NAXIS is
already used by the bintable convention the keywords MAXIS, MAXIS1,
...MAXISn were used to define the table matrix field. Note that MAXIS1
could be a table column so that the shape and size of the matrix could
vary from row to row. The keyword NMATRIX in the binary table header
indicates that this MAXIS convention is being followed. The standard
FITS WCS information could also be contained in table columns.

This format while not widely supported has been used by several single
dish analysis programs for exchanging spectral line data.

In the following example the binary table contains in each row a data
spectrum plus columns for the stardard FITS CRVAL1, CRPIX1, and CDELT1
defining the spectrum.

XTENSION= 'BINTABLE'                / FITS binary table.
BITPIX  =                    8      / Binary data.        
NAXIS   =                    2      / Table is a Matrix.        
NAXIS1  =                 4100      / Width of table in bytes.    
NAXIS2  =                    8      / Number of entries (rows) in Table.
PCOUNT  =                    0      / No Random Parameters.        
GCOUNT  =                    1      / Only one group.        
TFIELDS =                    5      / Number of fields in each row.        

NMATRIX =                    1      / Number of matrixes
MAXIS   =                    1      / No. axes in data matrix.        
CTYPE1  = 'FREQ         '           / Frequency Axis.        
TFORM1  = '1I           '           /        
TTYPE1  = 'MAXIS1       '           / Number of data points in spectrum.
TFORM2  = '1D           '           /        
TTYPE2  = 'CRVAL1       '           / Frequency at reference Pixel.
TUNIT2  = 'HZ           '           /
TFORM3  = '1E           '           /
TTYPE3  = 'CRPIX1       '           / Frequency Reference Pixel.
TFORM4  = '1E           '           /
TTYPE4  = 'CDELT1       '           / Frequency increment.
TUNIT4  = 'HZ           '           /
TFORM5  = '1024E        '           /
TTYPE5  = 'SPECTRUM     '           / Observed Spectrum.
END

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Subject: Re: FITS header cards
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 1994 19:34:43 GMT


Harvey Liszt (the original author of the unpublished draft document
mentioned by Bob Payne in the preceeding post) is currently working
on a final version of the document.  This will mostly likely be
published later this year.  There will be some small changes from
the draft document.  

Keep in mind that the following is from an initial draft of
this paper and that the final published version may be
different.

EXTNAME = 'SINGLE DISH       '

This indicates that the table follows the published (as soon as they
are published) standards (will also optionally include EXTVER and
EXTLEVEL keywords).

TMATXnnn = T

This keyword indicates that the axes corresponding to the array found
in column nnn are those indicated by the axis descriptors in the
keywords and other columns of the table (the CRVALn, CRPIX, etc,
either via keywords or TTYPE, TFORM, etc).  This was NOT in the
draft document nor is it currently implemented in the NRAO single
dish FITS writer.  It is required so you can be certain which arrays
are associated with the array axis descriptors (there may be
other arrays in a binary table, TMAXnnn is assumed to be F when not
specified).

The primary data column will be named 'DATA', i.e.:

TTYPE5  = 'DATA       '          / Observed data


Finally, although the MAXIS and MAXISnnn convention was adopted
at the Green Bank meeting, a more compact notation is now favored
in binary tables.  The MAXIS and MAXISnnn specifications (keywords) could
be replaced with the single line:

TDIMnnn = (MAXIS1, MAXIS2, ...)

where actual numbers corresponding to MAXIS1, etc, would be used.

e.g.

TDIM13 = (256,1,1,1,1)

would corresponds to MAXIS = 5, MAXIS1 = 256, MAXIS2 = 1, etc.

Both conventions will be outlined in the eventual paper although I
think the emphasis will be on the TDIMnnn convention.

Cheers,

   Bob Garwood





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Subject:  Re: FITS header cards
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Bob Garwood writes:

>TMATXnnn = T

>This keyword indicates that the axes corresponding to the array found
>in column nnn are those indicated by the axis descriptors in the
>keywords and other columns of the table (the CRVALn, CRPIX, etc,
>either via keywords or TTYPE, TFORM, etc).  This was NOT in the
>draft document nor is it currently implemented in the NRAO single
>dish FITS writer.  It is required so you can be certain which arrays
>are associated with the array axis descriptors (there may be
>other arrays in a binary table, TMAXnnn is assumed to be F when not
>specified).

The Green Bank convention like the FITS primary data array only
allowed one array per row with the same shape and same WCS.
Under this assumption TMATXnnn is not needed. At the time of the
Green Bank meeting the TDIMnnn convention did not exist and there
could not be other inconsistant arrays in the table.


>Finally, although the MAXIS and MAXISnnn convention was adopted
>at the Green Bank meeting, a more compact notation is now favored
>in binary tables.  The MAXIS and MAXISnnn specifications (keywords)
>could be replaced with the single line:
>TDIMnnn = (MAXIS1, MAXIS2, ...)

This only works if the arrays are of fixed size for each row and the
MAXISnnn values are set by keywords and not by column values.  This
works fine for most spectral line data. However the MAXIS convention
is much more powerful if the MAXIS values are column entries. This
allows the shape of the data array to vary on a per row basis.
Combined with the variable length array convention this more general
approach could efficiently mix both line and continuum data in one
FITS binary table.

In general the TDIMnnn = (MAXIS1, MAXIS2, ...) is not consistant with
the MAXIS approach and the two should probably not be used in the same
file. The Green Bank convention only supports one array per row and
one WCS per row ( if more than one array they must be of the same
shape and have the same WCS). If a table needs to hold more than one
array type with more than one WCS per row then some other set of
conventions needs to be defined.

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From: dwells at fits.CV.NRAO.EDU (Don Wells)
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Subject: Re: FITS Browser/Extractor For MS-DOS
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 1994 16:20:08 GMT

In article <758899924snz at regulus.demon.co.uk>
    daves at regulus.demon.co.uk ("David M. Swain") writes:
 DMS> I.. run MS-DOS on my workstation.. need.. to manipulate FITS
 DMS> files ( not always TABLES ). Does anyone know of a.. FITS file
 DMS> manipulation package for MS-DOS.. 

This is a frequently-asked-question. The FITS community needs to have
a comprehensive answer to this question, but I am not aware of one at
the moment. The best I can do is to refer MS-DOS users to the
collection of messages in the archive directory

    ftp://fits.cv.nrao.edu/fits/os-support/dos/

The current contents of this directory are:

  -r--r--r--  1 dwells       2242 May  5  1993 ftb30b.mail
  -r--r--r--  1 dwells       3480 Apr  2  1993 imagine-32.news
  -rw-r--r--  1 dwells       1327 Nov  5 15:08 imdis79g.news
  -r--r--r--  1 dwells       4211 Dec 31  1992 imdisp-fits.news
  -r--r--r--  1 dwells       7399 Oct 15  1992 imdisp77.news
  -r--r--r--  1 dwells     342084 Oct 15  1992 imdisp77.zip
  -r--r--r--  1 dwells     131107 Oct 15  1992 imdisp78.exe
  -r--r--r--  1 dwells       5968 Oct 15  1992 imdisp78.news
  -r--r--r--  1 dwells       2827 Apr 29  1993 imdisp78b.news
  -r--r--r--  1 dwells      19075 Mar  4  1993 imdisp79.news
  -r--r--r--  1 dwells       1267 Dec  2  1992 ipsys.news
  -r--r--r--  2 dwells       6300 Jul 28  1991 listfits.c
  -rw-r--r--  1 dwells       3800 Nov  9 17:38 mips.news
  -r--r--r--  1 dwells       1735 Dec  3  1992 mira.news
  -r--r--r--  1 dwells       7010 Apr 28  1993 pcvista.news
  -r--r--r--  1 dwells        959 Mar 10  1993 s-and-t.news
  -rw-r--r--  1 dwells       3766 Jul  6  1993 vfits012.news
  -rw-r--r--  1 dwells        825 Aug  4 15:26 viewfits.news

I welcome reports of additional FITS-support packages or programs for
DOS/OS-2/Windows/etc. 

I wish that one or more people would construct reviews of the various
software solutions, and would either post them to sci.astro.fits or
else send them to me.  I would like to add such reviews to the
collection in this directory, and adaptations of them should be added
to the FITS FAQ posting.
--

  Donald C. Wells         Associate Scientist         dwells at nrao.edu
                    http://fits.cv.nrao.edu/~dwells
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