Development Group at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory High
Energy Astrophysics Division discovered many experimental and
unofficial MIME media types being used by various agencies.
Jeff Uphoff of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO)
contributed the FITS entries for the magic number file that permits
the Unix-like "file" command on many systems to identify a FITS file.
Nelson Zarate verified that the fgread and fgwrite programs are able
to store hierarchical directories containing files with arbitrary
MIME media types within a HDU of a FITS file. The fgread and fgwrite
programs are part of the FITSUTIL IRAF external package (version
dated September 1999) written by N. Zarate, D. Tody, and R. Seaman at
National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO).
Authors' Addresses
Steven L. Allen
UCO/Lick Observatory
University of California
Santa Cruz, CA 95064 USA
Phone: +1 831 459 3046
EMail: sla@ucolick.org
Donald C. Wells
National Radio Astronomy Observatory
520 Edgemont Road
Charlottesville, Virginia 22903-2475 USA
Phone: +1 434 296 0277
EMail: dwells@nrao.edu
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