Thanks to all who replied. The reason for the question is not as stupid
as it appears.  The official TIFF spec allows for a type with many images
in the same file. However, the consensus is that no confocal manufacturer
is using that type. That is just as well, since I know of very few
programs that could read that type anyway.
 
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Paul Goodwin
Image Analysis Lab
FHCRC, Seattle, WA
 
On Tue, 24 Jan 1995, Andrew Vaillant wrote:
 
> The tiff file format is a 2dimensional image format.  It does not usually conta
> in several slices.  This is usually done in several tiff files.
>
> Andrew Vaillant
> University of Ottawa Centre for Confocal Microscopy
> Ottawa, Canada
>