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

[gberz3]

Thanks Maren.  One question I suppose I've just forgotten to ask:  Is
there anything particularly special about the actual graphics content
of a FITS file?  Or is it perhaps simply a glorified TIFF or JPEG of
some sort?

Regards,
Michael

On Aug 4, 11:09 pm, Maren Purves <m.pur... at jach.hawaii.edu> wrote:
> 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