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• Contents
• Introduction
• A Brief Overview
• Sources of FITS Software and Information
• Acknowledgements
• Legal Stuff
• Creating the CFITSIO Library
• Building the Library
• Testing the Library
• Linking Programs with CFITSIO
• Getting Started with CFITSIO
• Example Program
• A FITS Primer
• Programming Guidelines
• CFITSIO Definitions
• Current Header Data Unit (CHDU)
• Function Names and Variable Datatypes
• Support for Unsigned Integers and Signed Bytes
• Dealing with Character Strings
• Implicit Data Type Conversion
• Data Scaling
• Support for IEEE Special Values
• Error Status Values and the Error Message Stack
• Variable-Length Arrays in Binary Tables
• Multiple Access to the Same FITS File
• When the Final Size of the FITS HDU is Unknown
• CFITSIO Size Limitations
• Basic CFITSIO Interface Routines
• CFITSIO Error Status Routines
• FITS File Access Routines
• HDU Access Routines
• Header Keyword Read/Write Routines
• Primary Array or IMAGE Extension I/O Routines
• Image Compression
• ASCII and Binary Table Routines
• Utility Routines
• The CFITSIO Iterator Function
• The Iterator Work Function
• The Iterator Driver Function
• Guidelines for Using the Iterator Function
• Complete List of Iterator Routines
• World Coordinate System Routines
• Self-contained WCS Routines
• Hierarchical Grouping Routines
• Grouping Table Routines
• Group Member Routines
• Specialized CFITSIO Interface Routines
• FITS File Access Routines
• HDU Access Routines
• Specialized Header Keyword Routines
• Define Data Scaling and Undefined Pixel Parameters
• Specialized FITS Primary Array or IMAGE Extension I/O Routines
• Specialized FITS ASCII and Binary Table Routines
• Extended File Name Syntax
• Overview
• Filetype
• Base Filename
• Output File Name when Opening an Existing File
• Template File Name when Creating a New File
• Image Tile-Compression Specification
• HDU Location Specification
• Image Section
• Image Transform Filters
• Column and Keyword Filtering Specification
• Row Filtering Specification
• Binning or Histogramming Specification
• Template Files
• Detailed Template Line Format
• Auto-indexing of Keywords
• Template Parser Directives
• Formal Template Syntax
• Errors
• Examples
• Local FITS Conventions
• 64-Bit Long Integers
• Long String Keyword Values.
• Arrays of Fixed-Length Strings in Binary Tables
• Keyword Units Strings
• HIERARCH Convention for Extended Keyword Names
• Tile-Compressed Image Format
• Optimizing Programs
• How CFITSIO Manages Data I/O
• Optimization Strategies
• Index of Routines
• Parameter Definitions
• CFITSIO Error Status Codes

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