[fitsbits] Proposed Changes to the FITS Standard

[Peter Teuben]

On [Thu Aug 16 08:18], Eric Greisen wrote:
> Random groups is by no means a dead format.  Following the lead of the
> FITS community I added to AIPS the ability to write interferometer
> visibility data using binary table format instead.  I believe that
> none of the other major interferometry packages (casa, difmap, miriad,
> etc) can read data written this way.  They all read data written in
> the random groups format and future plans seem to be more of the
> same.

gosh, Miriad sure seems so old now, but we totally rely on the random
groups format for input/output to other packages. So, random groups may
be old, but it works and isn't broken.

- peter