[fitsbits] start of Public Comment Period on the INHERIT convention

Phil Hodge hodge at stsci.edu
Wed Jul 1 11:57:48 EDT 2015


On 07/01/2015 11:44 AM, William Thompson wrote:
> In principle, one could have a completely empty primary header, with 
> all the metadata being stored only in the binary table header. 
> However, I don't think this would have bought us any friends. 

If the metadata pertain to the data in the table, the metadata should 
indeed be in the table header.  Why on earth would you put them in the 
primary header?

Phil



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