[fitsbits] Re: FITS vs. TIFF (or other image formats)

[Paul Schlyter]

In article <9tbqsh$1qhu$1 at noao.edu>, Rob Seaman <seaman at noao.edu> wrote:
 
> Paul Schlyter writes:
> 
>> FITS doesn't store images in a particularly efficient way though,
>> mostly because it's an ASCII format.  However being an ASCII format
>> means it's easily transported between widely different computers.
>> And I believe that was one major aim of FITS: to be portable between
>> as many computers as possible, including several mainframes which
>> nowadays are considered obsolete.
> 
> Only the headers are ASCII, the data records are typically binary values
 
Really?  You're sure it's not Base64 encoded?
 
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