[fitsbits] COMMENT and HISTORY keywords in fitsTcl

[Steve Allen]

On Wed 2000-10-11T15:04:05 -0700, Tom Kuiper hath writ:
> The User's Guide for fitsTcl states
> "objName get keyword ?keyList?
>       Return a list of {keyword value comment} for all the keywords in keyList
> (supports regular expressions).... (HISTORY and COMMENT keywords are never
> returned.)"
>
> Can anyone tell me why the HISTORY and COMMENT keywords are not returned?
> Is there a way around this?  I find these keywords most useful.

The answer may be within this question:

What does fitsTcl return if some of the keywords in keyList occur
more than once in the FITS header?

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