[fitsbits] start of Public Comment Period on compressed FITS image and tables

[THIERRY FORVEILLE]

 "Richard van Nieuwenhoven" wrote:
>
> maybe it would be good also to include the number of rows. So one
> unsigned integer for the size and one unsigned short for the number of
> rows. In case the program only needs to read a part of the table/image
> it can just fast forward over the blocks that would be skipped anyway.
> 
Just a nitpick, but FITS systematically uses signed integers (due to its
FORTRAN heritage). I think one would need a very strong reason to introduce
unsigned ones at this specific point, which there probably isn't.