<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN"> <!--Converted with LaTeX2HTML 98.1p1 release (March 2nd, 1998) originally by Nikos Drakos (nikos@cbl.leeds.ac.uk), CBLU, University of Leeds * revised and updated by: Marcus Hennecke, Ross Moore, Herb Swan * with significant contributions from: Jens Lippmann, Marek Rouchal, Martin Wilck and others --> <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Restrictions</TITLE> <META NAME="description" CONTENT="Restrictions"> <META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="vol1"> <META NAME="resource-type" CONTENT="document"> <META NAME="distribution" CONTENT="global"> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <LINK REL="STYLESHEET" HREF="vol1.css"> <LINK REL="previous" HREF="node113.html"> <LINK REL="up" HREF="node110.html"> <LINK REL="next" HREF="node118.html"> </HEAD> <BODY > <!--Navigation Panel--> <A NAME="tex2html2011" HREF="node118.html"> <IMG WIDTH="37" HEIGHT="24" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" ALT="next" SRC="icons.gif/next_motif.gif"></A> <A NAME="tex2html2007" HREF="node110.html"> <IMG WIDTH="26" HEIGHT="24" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" ALT="up" SRC="icons.gif/up_motif.gif"></A> <A NAME="tex2html2003" HREF="node116.html"> <IMG WIDTH="63" HEIGHT="24" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" ALT="previous" SRC="icons.gif/previous_motif.gif"></A> <A NAME="tex2html2009" HREF="node1.html"> <IMG WIDTH="65" HEIGHT="24" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" ALT="contents" SRC="icons.gif/contents_motif.gif"></A> <A NAME="tex2html2010" HREF="node216.html"> <IMG WIDTH="43" HEIGHT="24" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" ALT="index" SRC="icons.gif/index_motif.gif"></A> <BR> <B> Next:</B> <A NAME="tex2html2012" HREF="node118.html">IHAP Format</A> <B> Up:</B> <A NAME="tex2html2008" HREF="node110.html">FITS Format</A> <B> Previous:</B> <A NAME="tex2html2004" HREF="node116.html">Hierarchical keywords</A> <BR> <BR> <!--End of Navigation Panel--> <H2><A NAME="SECTION001114000000000000000"> </A> <A NAME="ch07:restrictions-fits"> </A> <BR> Restrictions </H2> The MIDAS reader of FITS tapes accepts most of the FITS formats including standard extensions. The MIDAS implementation has the following restrictions: <UL><LI>the maximum number of axes in images is 16, <LI>maximally 512 columns are allowed for tables <LI>matrix and variable size array conventions for <TT>BINTABLE</TT> are not available, <LI>information in headers without associated data is not stored to avoid creation of empty data files (<I>e.g.</I> for simple table files). </UL> <P> <BR><HR> <ADDRESS> <I>Petra Nass</I> <BR><I>1999-06-09</I> </ADDRESS> </BODY> </HTML>