[fitsbits] Clarification of EXTEND, please

Stephen Walton stephen.walton at csun.edu
Tue May 18 19:53:02 EDT 2004


On Fri, 2004-05-14 at 09:57, Jonathan McDowell wrote:
> Stephen, the standard is pretty clear on this
> e.g.
> http://archive.stsci.edu/fits/fits_standard/node39.html

I have sent a bug report to the Mathworks about fitsinfo.m, specifically
that it should not treat the absence of an extension on an otherwise
legal FITS file as a fatal error even if EXTEND=T is stated in the
primary HDU.  I'll see what response I get.

Thanks to everyone who responded.

-- 
Stephen Walton <stephen.walton at csun.edu>
Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Cal State Northridge




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