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