Added caveats.

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Frank Warmerdam 2004-09-10 14:50:03 +00:00
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NOTE: Sept/2004
The following described approach to managing tag extensions has been
mostly superceeded since libtiff 3.6.0. The described approach requires
internal knowledge of the libtiff API and tends to be very fragile
in the face of libtiff upgrades.
Please read over the html/addingtags.html in preference to the below
described approach.
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Client module for adding to LIBTIFF tagset
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Author: Niles Ritter
In the past, users of the "libtiff" package had to modify the
source code of the library if they required additional private tags
or codes not recognized by libtiff. Thus, whenever