dwells@fits.cx.nrao.edu (Don Wells) (04/12/91)
Archive-name: graphics/formats/fits-binary-table/1991-04-08 Archive: fits.cx.nrao.edu:/FITS/doc/bintable.* [192.33.115.8] Original-posting-by: dwells@fits.cx.nrao.edu (Don Wells) Original-subject: FITS Binary Table Extension Reposted-by: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti, MSEN) 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