[fitsbits] Proposed Changes to the FITS Standard

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On Fri, 10 Aug 2007, Preben Grosbol wrote:

>  11. Section 4.4.1.2  PCOUNT and GCOUNT
> 
>       In principle okay but one should check if this would require
>       existing software to be changed.  There may still be legacy 
>       tasks which write e.g. Random groups format.  The new
>       section 3.7 would not work in that case.

I am not sure what you mean here ? The fact that PCOUNT and GCOUNT are 
inthe 5th and 6th place in table 4.8 ? But table 6.1 shows (correctly) 
them in arbitrary position for random groups !

And random groups are NOT a "generalized conforming extension" but 
something which pre-date them (maybe this could be stated more clearly).

Lucio Chiappetti

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