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

[Arnold Rots]

Well, that's a bit too strong.
I refrained from writing FITS files with data in DULs, DUTs, and the like,
even though they were the original units in the data.

  - Arnold

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On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 2:48 PM, Phil Hodge <hodge at stsci.edu> wrote:

> 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.
>
> Phil
>
>
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