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The MIDAS reader of FITS tapes accepts most of the FITS formats
including standard extensions. The MIDAS implementation has the
following restrictions:
- the maximum number of axes in images is 16,
- maximally 512 columns are allowed for tables
- matrix and variable size array conventions for BINTABLE
are not available,
- information in headers without associated data is not stored to avoid creation of empty data files ( e.g. for simple table files).
Pascal Ballester
Fri Mar 24 17:17:52 MET 1995