Difference 0x9211 - 0xa211 (ImageNumber)

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[Originally posted by linuxuser on 2007-08-23 21:34:33-07]

What is the difference between 0x9211 and 0xa211? Ok, I saw 0xa211 is not writeable. Is there a reason why the 2nd tag is not writeable?

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[Originally posted by exiftool on 2007-08-23 22:20:53-07]

A number of tags between 0x92XX and 0xa2XX have changed
their tag ID's at some point in time.  Rather than give these different
tag names to allow them to be differentiated, I have left the tag
names the same and only made one of them writable.  The
one I have made writable is the one I have found to be the
more common of the two, although in general these tags are
not very commonly used to begin with.

- Phil

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[Originally posted by linuxuser on 2007-08-23 22:40:01-07]

Please change the names, as already mentioned in my other posting, I have problems. It would be very nice, if I could test it in a preversion. If this doens't work for me I can't go on with my bash script.

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[Originally posted by exiftool on 2007-08-24 11:43:39-07]

I hesitate to change tag names for reasons of backward compatibility.
Instead, you can easily override the existing definitions by adding
a user-defined tag with whatever name you want.

- Phil