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<DIV>I agree with what Phil Hodge said about formatting for TFORM.</DIV>
<DIV>The real Fortran format was designed to work with integer data</DIV>
<DIV>way back when storage was in short supply. That has not been</DIV>
<DIV>the case for quite a few years now and I aloways preferred when</DIV>
<DIV>reformatting star catalogs at the ADC to include decimal points</DIV>
<DIV>in all real data. Then set TFORM to the actual format.</DIV>
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<DIV>Wayne H. Warren Jr.</DIV>
<DIV>wwarren@towson.edu</DIV>
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