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Multiple Access to the Same FITS File
Current Header Data Unit (CHDU)
Function Names and Datatypes
Unsigned Integers
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
When the Final Size of the FITS HDU is Unknown
Local FITS Conventions supported by CFITSIO
Long String Keyword Values.
Arrays of Fixed-Length Strings in Binary Tables
Keyword Units Strings
Optimizing Code for Maximum Processing Speed
Background Information: How CFITSIO Manages Data I/O
Optimization Strategies