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.tif Files

What is it for?

This is the image format BEAM-ish writes graphical information too.

Who generates it?

BEAM-ish

Type?

Binary

How is it formatted?

The Tagged Image File Format is common and can be read by most image editing software.  A detailed description of the format can be found at http://www.libtiff.org/. Beamish requires the system to have the libtiff.so file installed.  This is usually already on an SGI system.