ASCII table tricks

[Lucio Chiappetti]

On 28 Aug 1996, Steve Allen wrote:

> >From the ASCII tables definition it appears that it would be possible
> to make a table which is truly human-readable by naive tools.
  ...
> Is anyone writing FITS ASCII tables with these intents?

  Is anyone using FITS ASCII tables at all  nowadays, or not only
  BINTABLEs ?
                                                  LC