ou get from <tt>"cat dist/tiff.alpha"</tt>.
  </p>
  <p>
    Within an application that uses <tt>libtiff</tt> the <tt>TIFFGetVersion</tt>
    routine will return a pointer to a string that contains software version
    information.
    The library include file <tt>&lt;tiffio.h&gt;</tt> contains a C pre-processor
    define <tt>TIFFLIB_VERSION</tt> that can be used to check library
    version compatiblity at compile time.
  </p>
  <hr>
  <h2 id="typedefs">Library Datatypes</h2>
  <p>
    <tt>libtiff</tt> de