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  :ip-name "fits.cv.nrao.edu"
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  :description "Server created with WAIS release 8 b5 on Jun 14 15:29:17 1993 by dwells@fits.cv.nrao.edu

		    WAIS Server for FITS Documents

Host fits.cv.nrao.edu [192.33.115.8] supports an anonymous-FTP archive
for the Flexible Image Transport System [FITS], the standard data
interchange and archival format of the worldwide astronomy community.
The archive includes a variety of documents in directory
/fits/documents, discussions of FITS support for various operating
systems in directory /fits/os-support, binary test files in
directories /fits/sampledata and /fits/testfiles, and FITS-related
newsgroup and exploder traffic in the directory /fits/traffic.

Fits.cv.nrao.edu also supports a WAIS server which indexes all of the
text files in the archive, including those coded in Postscript. I
tabulate some sample WAIS searches below; the best documents returned
by these keys can be used to refine the WAIS searches using relevance
feedback.

Key(s)		Fetches:
--------------- ------------------------------------------------------
standard	FITS standards documents (the NASA FITS standard is
		the first document returned).

ron cdc		Discussions of the early history of FITS, of pre-FITS
		prototyping, of the FITS 'birthday' and of 'icunabula'.

nost support	Documents produced by the FITS Support Office at
		the NOST [NASA/OSSA Office of Standards and
		Technology] at Goddard Space Flight Center [GSFC].

european	Reports of activities of the European FITS Committee
		and Annual Reports of the Chair of the IAU FITS WG.

ieee		IEEE floating point numbers in FITS files, standards
		and discussions of usage, expecially for VAXen.

bintable	Documents and traffic related to the BINTABLE (Binary
		Table) FITS extension type. 

exabyte		Discussions of blocking and tapemarks on exabytes and
		other cartridge tapes, and of FITS blocking conventions.

wcs		World Coordinate Systems -- documents discussing the
		semantics of describing various projective geometries
		using FITS header syntax. 

ogip		Documents related to the NASA HEASARC OGIP conventions
		for using the FITS BINTABLE extension to interchange
		and archive high energy astrophysics data. 

dish spectra	Discussions of use of FITS to encode sets of spectra,
		especially for single-dish radio telescopes.

units		Discussions of physical units usage (e.g. SI vs. cgs).

continuation	A May-1993 discussion of how to represent character
		strings longer than 68 characters in FITS headers.

mac macos	Discussions of FITS support for Macintosh systems.

skipped		Listings of headers of FITS sampledata and testfiles.

compress	Discussions of use of data compression in astronomy,
		especially in the FITS context.
"
  )
