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A FITS Primer
Basic CFITSIO Conventions
CFITSIO definitions
Disk Files, Memory-Resident Files, and Piped Files
Reading or Writing Memory-Resident FITS Files
Piped FITS Files via STDIN and STDOUT.
Current Header Data Unit (CHDU)
Routine Names
Routine Families and Datatypes
Defined Symbolic Constants
Unsigned Integers
1's Based Index Numbers
Character Strings
Implicit Data Type Conversion
Data Scaling
Error Status Values and the Error Message Stack
Variable-Length Arrays in Binary Tables
Support for IEEE Special Values
Local FITS Conventions supported by CFITSIO
Long String Keyword Values.
Arrays of Strings in Binary Table Extensions
Keyword Units Strings