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Programming Guidelines

The FITSIO Cookbook (available in the file cookbook.tex in the FITSIO software distribution directory) contains annotated listings of various programs that read and write FITSIO files. New users of FITSIO should study these example programs to help learn how to correctly use the FITSIO library. The following sections briefly summarize the main steps in reading or writing a FITS file.