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

[Peter Weilbacher]

On Tue, 23 Jun 2015, Lucio Chiappetti wrote:

> This convention defines the CHECKSUM and DATASUM keywords that may be used
> to verify the integrity of an HDU

I have dealt with files containing DATASUM and CHECKSUM for so long that
I had actually thought that they were already part of the standard.
fitsverify knows to handle them, too...

But I agree with Tom that the implementation should be made mandatory,
for best possible interoperability.

   Peter.
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