[iaufwg] FITS panel recommendations; ready for review?

William Thompson William.T.Thompson.1 at gsfc.nasa.gov
Fri Jul 13 16:50:10 EDT 2007


I found the use of the terms "FITS block", "header block", and "data block" to 
be confusing.  The word "block" has different meanings, in one case meaning a 
record size of 2880 bytes, and in the other two cases meaning a larger units of 
one or more 2880 block records.

I have no objection to the term "FITS block", but I think that "header unit" and 
"data unit" would better reflect common usage within the FITS community.

Bill Thompson


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