[fitsbits] qfits library

[Arnold Rots]

Does it write checksums?  (I couldn't find out frm the documentation)

  - Arnold

ndev42 at yahoo.com wrote:
> 
> Dear FITS users:
> 
> The qfits library is a lightweight code handling accesses
> to FITS files. It is written an ANSI C, should be portable
> to any Unix and compiles with C or C++ programs.
> 
> qfits allows the programmer to access in a clean way all
> informations contained in a FITS header. No abstraction of an
> image or a cube is provided, this is left to other image processing
> libraries. FITS extensions are also handled in a generic way.
> Tables are handled through an abstract structure and associated
> methods for data loading.
> 
> The tarball size is 73k, including HTML documentation and
> some example programs.
> qfits is the FITS engine at the heart of the eclipse image
> processing library, it is distributed under GPL.
> 
> See:  http://archive.eso.org/saft/#qfits
> 
> You are welcome to try it, report bugs and suggest modifications.
> Cheers
> --
> Nicolas
> 
> 
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> 

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