README for directory tree fits/documents/
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This directory tree contains general FITS documents as listed below:

Directory		Contains:
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documents/standards	FITS standards documents. The NASA version of
			the FITS standards is file standard.ps.

documents/overviews	Discussions of FITS Basics (i.e. FAQs), the
			early history of FITS (pre-FITS prototyping and
			the FITS 'birthday'), the TABLE extension as a
			self-describing format for relational
			databases, and summary statistics of the FITS
			user community.

documents/proposals	Drafts of proposed additions to the FITS
			standards which are currently being considered
			by the FITS committees. The latest version of
			the BINTABLE (Binary Table) proposal is bintable2.

documents/committees	Reports of activities of the European FITS
			Committee, the WGAS FITS Committee and the
			Japanese FITS Committee, plus Annual Reports
			produced by the Chair of the IAU FITS WG. 

documents/drafts	Various drafts which might or might not become
			formal proposals for FITS standards, Also,
			certain project-specific or discipline-specific
			conventions. For example, document ogip_93_001
			describes the NASA HEASARC OGIP physical units
			conventions for using the FITS BINTABLE
			extension to interchange and archive high energy
			astrophysics data.  

documents/wcs		World Coordinate Systems -- documents
			discussing the syntax and semantics of describing
			projective geometries using FITS header syntax. 

documents/bibliography	Provisional FITS bibliography in BIBTEX style