On Wed 2006-09-13T07:23:31 -0400, Jonathan McDowell hath writ:
> Mark: I agree with your suggestion about the metadata item
> to identify the format.
> - Jonathan
The FITS application developer community (Bill Joye and his ds9 viewer to name one) will strongly welcome this sort of thing as a way of identifying what sorts of things can be done when an application is handed a file with MIME type application/fits. This was, in fact, the subject which set the FITS MIME process into motion, and it was determined to be a problem that the FITS MIME effort could not solve.
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