r the normal UNIX stdio library.
    For example, to read from an existing TIFF image the
    file must first be opened:
  </p>
  <p style="margin-left: 40px">
    <tt>#include "tiffio.h"<br>
    main()<br>
    {<br>
    &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;TIFF* tif = TIFFOpen("foo.tif", "r");<br>
    &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;... do stuff ...<br>
    &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;TIFFClose(tif);<br>
    }</tt>
  </p>
  <p>
    The handle returned by <tt>TIFFOpen</tt> is <i>opaque</i>, that is
    the application is not permit