ted@aps1.spa.umn.edu (Ted Stockwell) (06/04/91)
Archive-name: graphics/formats/fits-archive/1991-06-02 Archive-directory: fits.cx.nrao.edu:/FITS/ [192.33.115.8] Original-posting-by: ted@aps1.spa.umn.edu (Ted Stockwell) Original-subject: ftp site for fits information Reposted-by: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti, MSEN) The following, copied from sci.astro, discusses the binary table extension to fits, but more general information is also available from the ftp site. > From dwells@fits.cx.nrao.edu Thu Apr 11 14:26:31 1991 > From: dwells@fits.cx.nrao.edu (Don Wells) > Newsgroups: sci.astro > Subject: FITS Binary Table Extension > Date: 8 Apr 91 14:38:37 GMT > Distribution: sci > Organization: National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Charlottesville, VA > Status: OR > > > Binary Table Extension to FITS: > A Proposal > > W.D. Cotton > National Radio Astronomy Observatory > > 08 April 1991 > > A draft of the proposed binary table extension to FITS is now > available for public comment. This format is intended to carry a wide > variety of data structures in a standard binary form. The basic > structure is that of a table although a element may be an array of an > arbitrary size. Data types allowed include a variety of numeric, > logical and character types. > > The 9-page LaTeX document may be obtained by anonymous-FTP to > fits.cx.nrao.edu [192.33.115.8], in the directory /FITS/doc, as the > files: > > 138325 Apr 8 09:50 bintable.ps > 52700 Apr 8 09:50 bintable.ps.Z > 20454 Apr 8 09:45 bintable.tex > > The .ps form should be printable on any Postscript printer. The .Z > file is a Unix-compressed version of the Postscript. A recipe for > fetching the files via anonymous-FTP is appended. > > This proposal will be considered by the FITS Committees for adoption > as an extension to the FITS standards. The author will present the > proposal to the meeting of the European FITS Committee during the 3rd > ESO/ST-ECF Data Analysis Workshop in Garching, FRG, on Tuesday, 23 > April. Comments on this proposed extension to FITS should be sent to > > bcotton@nrao.edu or 6654::BCOTTON > > =-=-=-=-=-= Anonymous-FTP Recipe =-=-=-=-=-= > > The following session was executed on a Convex C-1. When it asked for > "Password:" the answer given was "guest" (anonymous-FTP is often > called the Anonymous Guest Convention). Only the Postscript file was > fetched in this example. Remember to specify "binary" mode if you > fetch the compressed (.Z) file! > > nrao1% ftp 192.33.115.8 > Connected to 192.33.115.8. > 220 fits FTP server (SunOS 4.0) ready. > Name (192.33.115.8:dwells): anonymous > 331 Guest login ok, send ident as password. > Password: > 230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply. > ftp> cd FITS > 250 CWD command successful. > ftp> cd doc > 250 CWD command successful. > ftp> dir > 200 PORT command successful. > 150 ASCII data connection for /bin/ls (192.33.115.4,2102) (0 bytes). > total 399 > -rw-r--r-- 1 dwells vlb 138325 Apr 8 09:50 bintable.ps > -rw-r--r-- 1 dwells vlb 52700 Apr 8 09:50 bintable.ps.Z > -rw-r--r-- 1 dwells vlb 20454 Apr 8 09:45 bintable.tex > -rw-r--r-- 1 dwells vlb 99523 Jun 27 1990 fitsdbmsapp.ps > -rw-r--r-- 1 dwells vlb 42193 Jun 27 1990 fitsdbmsapp.ps.Z > -rw-r--r-- 1 dwells vlb 20603 Jun 27 1990 fitsdbmsapp.tex > -rw-r--r-- 1 dwells vlb 7775 Feb 28 1989 fitsfp89.txt > 226 ASCII Transfer complete. > ftp> get bintable.ps > 200 PORT command successful. > 150 ASCII data connection for bintable.ps (192.33.115.4,2103) (138325 bytes). > 226 ASCII Transfer complete. > 144212 bytes received in 2.5 seconds (56 Kbytes/s) > ftp> quit > 221 Goodbye. > -- > > Donald C. Wells Associate Scientist dwells@nrao.edu > National Radio Astronomy Observatory +1-804-296-0277 > Edgemont Road Fax= +1-804-296-0278 > Charlottesville, Virginia 22903-2475 USA 78:31.1W, 38:02.2N -- Ted Stockwell U of MN, Dept. of Astronomy ted@aps1.spa.umn.edu Automated Plate Scanner Project -- comp.archives file verification fits.cx.nrao.edu total 7 drwxr-xr-x 2 dwells 512 May 30 16:14 doc drwxr-xr-x 2 dwells 512 May 6 16:10 ADC drwxr-xr-x 2 dwells 1536 Nov 25 1990 HST drwxr-xr-x 2 dwells 1024 Nov 4 1990 FTT4B drwxr-xr-x 2 dwells 512 Feb 7 1990 VMCMS drwxr-xr-x 2 dwells 512 Oct 1 1989 VMS found fits-archive ok fits.cx.nrao.edu:/FITS/