Foreign File Encapsulation Convention
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Description:
The XTENSION = 'FOREIGN ' extension type puts a FITS wrapper
about an arbitrary file, allowing
a file or tree of files to be wrapped up in FITS and later restored to
disk.
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Submitted:
11-August-2006 by R. Seaman (NOAO), N. Zarate (NOAO), and D. Tody (NRAO)
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Registered:
October-2007
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Date and Place of First Usage:
May 1999, at NOAO/KPNO
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Extent of Usage:
Limited usage, mainly to encapsulate preview PNG-format graphics files into
FITS files in the NOAO High Performance Pipeline System.
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Full Documentation:
PDF format,
Open Office .odt format
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Comments and/or critiques:
IAU-FWG discussions
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Sample FITS File:
foreign.fits (from NOAO)
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Sample Header Listing:
foreign.txt
Last revised: Monday, 05-Jan-2015 17:09:07 EST
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