[fitsbits] Question(s) regarding development of proprietary FITS manipulation software. . .

Maren Purves m.purves at jach.hawaii.edu
Sat Aug 4 23:09:21 EDT 2007


On Fri, 3 Aug 2007, gberz3 wrote:

> So far, I've really only looked at the CFITSIO items and it's very
> well documented (really too well) but the function names don't seem
> very intuitive.  I'm sure they mean a lot more to someone familiar
> with FITS, but I'm absolutely not.  It's basically like someone in
> 1989 asking you to write a JPEG file manipulation program.  Sure the
> information exists, but with 0 familiarity you'll need a lot of input.

there used to be a file called longnames.h ...

Aloha,
Maren



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