[fitsbits] Question on angstrom and erg units in FITS standard

[Thierry.Forveille at ujf-grenoble.fr]

Quoting Phil Hodge <hodge at stsci.edu>:

> On 11/04/2014 02:26 PM, Thierry.Forveille at ujf-grenoble.fr wrote:
>> Deprecated means no new uses, so I would recommend (resources
>> allowing, of course) that Thomas accept those units when reading
>> external files but convert to standard SI on output.
>
> I wouldn't use a FITS writer that changed my data.
>
I wouldn't either, but I learned in high school physics classes
that unit conversions don't change the data :-)