hdf5/doc/html/H5.user.html
Frank Baker a901d24a8b [svn-r7158]
Purpose:
    Renamed old "HDF5 User's Guide" as "HDF5 User's Guide, Release 1.4.5".
    Added navigation bar link to new user's guide on HDF server.
    Changed release tag line (in old UG only) back to
        "Describes HDF5 Release 1.4.5, February 200 3"

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HDF5 User's Guide
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<a href="index.html">HDF5 documents and links</a>&nbsp;<br>
<a href="H5.intro.html">Introduction to HDF5</a>&nbsp;<br>
<a href="RM_H5Front.html">HDF5 Reference Manual</a>&nbsp;<br>
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<!-- #EndLibraryItem --><center><h1>A User's Guide for HDF5<br>Release 1.4.5</h1></center>
<p>This document is the <cite>HDF5 User's Guide</cite> from
HDF5 Release 1.4.5.
Since a
<a href="http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/doc/UG/index.html">new
HDF5 User's Guide</a> is under development,
this version has not been updated for Release 1.6.0.
<p>The following documents form a loosely organized user's guide
to the HDF5 library.
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<tr><td valign=top><a href="Files.html">HDF5 Files</a>
</td><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
<td valign=top>A guide to the <strong>H5F</strong> interface.
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<tr><td valign=top><a href="Datasets.html">Datasets</a>
</td><td></td><td valign=top>A guide to the <strong>H5D</strong>
interface.
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<tr><td valign=top><a href="Datatypes.html">Datatypes</a>
</td><td></td><td valign=top>A guide to the <strong>H5T</strong>
interface.
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<tr><td valign=top><a href="Dataspaces.html">Dataspaces</a>
</td><td></td><td valign=top>A guide to the <strong>H5S</strong>
interface.
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<tr><td valign=top><a href="Groups.html">Groups</a>
</td><td></td><td valign=top>A guide to the <strong>H5G</strong>
interface.
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<tr><td valign=top><a href="References.html">References and
Identifiers</a>
</td><td></td><td valign=top>A guide to the <strong>H5R</strong>
and <strong>H5I</strong> interfaces.
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<tr><td valign=top><a href="Attributes.html">Attributes</a>
</td><td></td><td valign=top>A guide to the <strong>H5A</strong>
interface.
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<tr><td valign=top><a href="Properties.html">Property Lists</a>
</td><td></td><td valign=top>A guide to the <strong>H5P</strong>
interface.
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<tr><td valign=top><a href="Errors.html">Error Handling</a>
</td><td></td><td valign=top>A guide to the <strong>H5E</strong>
interface.
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<tr><td valign=top><a href="Filters.html">Filters</a>
</td><td></td><td valign=top>A guide to the <strong>H5Z</strong>
interface.
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<tr><td valign=top><a href="Caching.html">Caching</a>
</td><td></td><td valign=top>A guide for meta and raw data caching.
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<tr><td valign=top><a href="Chunking.html">Dataset Chunking</a>
</td><td></td><td valign=top>A guide to the issues and pitfalls
of dataset chunking.
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<tr><td valign=top><a href="MountingFiles.html">Mounting Files</a>
</td><td></td><td valign=top>A guide to mounting files containing
external HDF5 datasets.
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<tr><td valign=top><a href="Performance.html">Performance</a>
</td><td></td><td valign=top>A guide to performance issues and
analysis tools.
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<tr><td valign=top><a href="Debugging.html">Debugging</a>
</td><td></td><td valign=top>A guide to debugging HDF5 API calls.
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<tr><td valign=top><a href="Environment.html">Environment Variables
and</a>
<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="Environment.html">Configuration
Parameters</a>
</td><td></td><td valign=top>A list of HDF5 environment variables
and configuration <br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;parameters.
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<tr><td valign=top><a href="ddl.html">DDL for HDF5</a>
</td><td></td><td valign=top>A DDL in BNF for HDF5.
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A description of HDF5 version numbers.
<li><a href="IOPipe.html">I/O Pipeline</a> -
A description of the raw data I/O pipeline.
<li><a href="ExternalFiles.html">Working with External Files</a> -
A guide to the use of multiple files with HDF5.
<li><a href="Big.html">Large Datasets</a> -
A guide to accessing large datasets on small computers.
<li><a href="MemoryManagement.html">Memory Management</a> -
A white paper about memory management issues in HDF5.
<li><a href="Coding.html">Coding Style</a> -
A white paper about coding style in the HDF5 library code.
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A white paper about compatibility issues between HDF4 and HDF5.
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<a href="RM_H5Front.html">HDF5 Reference Manual</a>&nbsp;<br>
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Describes HDF5 Release 1.4.5, February 2003
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Last modified: 3 July 2003
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