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FITS Format Compatibility

At a level invisible to the user and applications programmer, Asterix now performs its file I/O in a much more sophisticated fashion.

When first given a file object to open, Asterix will attempt to match this file's format with a number of pre-defined classes (currently HDS, FITS).

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