ZeissToSGI

ZeissToSGI utility program converts from a Zeiss AxioVision TIFF file to one that can be read by the SoftWoRx software on SGI boxes. While Tagged Image File Format (TIFF) images are common, there can be many problems using TIFF files, especially created on a variety of scientific devices. Zeiss likely was providing a flexible framework to store quite large images and only read the part that was needed. SGI, on the other hand, was expecting to process an image that could be held in memory, and didn't care about reading such large images.