[fitsbits] FITS substring convention

[William Pence]

A new FITS convention for representing arrays of strings within a FITS 
binary table has been submitted for public comment to the Registry of 
FITS conventions at http://fits.gsfc.nasa.gov/fits_registry.html.

This is actually an old FITS convention that was first described in an 
appendix to the 1995 FITS binary table extension definition paper and 
then in Appendix B of version 2 of the FITS Standard.  This appendix was 
removed from the newer version 3 of the FITS Standard that was approved 
last year, under the assumption that the convention would instead be 
documented in the FITS Registry.

Comments about this convention may be posted here on the FITSBITS mail 
exploder or on the companion sci.astro.fits newsgroup.

Bill Pence
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