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4. FITSIO Conventions and Guidelines
Subsections
4.1 CFITSIO Size Limitations
4.2 Multiple Access to the Same FITS File
4.3 Current Header Data Unit (CHDU)
4.4 Subroutine Names
4.5 Subroutine Families and Datatypes
4.6 Implicit Data Type Conversion
4.7 Data Scaling
4.8 Error Status Values and the Error Message Stack
4.9 Variable-Length Array Facility in Binary Tables
4.10 Support for IEEE Special Values
4.11 When the Final Size of the FITS HDU is Unknown
4.12 Local FITS Conventions supported by FITSIO
4.12.1 Support for Long String Keyword Values.
4.12.2 Arrays of Fixed-Length Strings in Binary Tables
4.12.3 Keyword Units Strings
4.12.4 HIERARCH Convention for Extended Keyword Names
4.13 Optimizing Code for Maximum Processing Speed
4.13.1 Background Information: How CFITSIO Manages Data I/O
4.13.2 Optimization Strategies
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