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Article #24Re: Year 2000
From: Archie Warnock
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 14:11
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 14:11
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In article <27AUG199210071784@stars.gsfc.nasa.gov>, thompson@stars.gsfc.nasa.gov (William Thompson, code 682.1, x2040) writes: |> Although I like FITS, and plan to use it, I find the eight character limit very |> constraining. As one person I work with said, "It's like programming in |> FORTRAN 2". And we're all the way up to FORTRAN 77, with 90 due out RSN <grin>. Seriously, though, it's supposed to be that way - maximum portability and all that... -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Archie Warnock Internet: warnock@hypatia.gsfc.nasa.gov -- Hughes STX "Unix --- JCL For The 90s" -- NASA/GSFC
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Newsgroups: sci.astro.fits Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!sun-barr!ames!nsisrv!Hypatia.gsfc.nasa.gov!warnock From: warnock@Hypatia.gsfc.nasa.gov (Archie Warnock) Subject: Re: Year 2000 Message-ID: <1992Aug27.141152.11435@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> Sender: usenet@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov (Usenet) Nntp-Posting-Host: hypatia.gsfc.nasa.gov Reply-To: warnock@hypatia.gsfc.nasa.gov Organization: Hughes STX at Goddard Space Flight Center References: <1992Aug26.231536.5504@nrao.edu> <27AUG199210071784@stars.gsfc.nasa.gov> Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 14:11:52 GMT Lines: 15