%0 Journal Article
%T FITS Foreign File Encapsulation Convention
%A Nelson Zarate
%A Rob Seaman
%A Doug Tody
%J Physics
%D 2012
%I arXiv
%X This document describes a FITS convention developed by the IRAF Group (D. Tody, R. Seaman, and N. Zarate) at the National Optical Astronomical Observatory (NOAO). This convention is implemented by the fgread/fgwrite tasks in the IRAF fitsutil package. It was first used in May 1999 to encapsulate preview PNG-format graphics files into FITS files in the NOAO High Performance Pipeline System. A FITS extension of type 'FOREIGN' provides a mechanism for storing an arbitrary file or tree of files in FITS, allowing it to be restored to disk at a later time.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/1201.1829v1