[svn-r3101] Purpose:

	Updates and reformatting
Description:
	Reformatting of RELEASE document.

	Updated some of the platforms in the INSTALL doc.

2 files changed, 83 insertions, 80 deletions

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index a95286f..e8fb3a2 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@
 	used to configure, build, test, and install the HDF5 library,
 	header files, and support programs.
 
-	$ gunzip <hdf5-1.2.0.tar.gz |tar xf -
+	$ gunzip < hdf5-1.2.0.tar.gz | tar xf -
 	$ cd hdf5-1.2.0
 	$ make check
 	$ make install
@@ -345,7 +345,10 @@
 	saying `--disable-static' or `--disable-shared'.
 
 	    $ ./configure --disable-shared
-	
+
+	The C++ and Fortran libraries are currently only available in the
+	static format.
+
 	To build only statically linked executables on platforms which
 	support shared libraries, use the `--enable-static-exec' flag.
 
diff --git a/RELEASE b/RELEASE
index 4113ec0..d275626 100644
--- a/RELEASE
+++ b/RELEASE
@@ -6,13 +6,12 @@
 
 INTRODUCTION
 
-This document describes the differences between HDF5-1.2.0 and 
+This document describes the differences between HDF5-1.2.0 and
 HDF5-1.3.x, and contains information on the platforms where HDF5-1.3.x
-was tested (????? careful, under construction)
-and known problems in HDF5-1.3.x. For more details check the
-HISTORY file in the HDF5 source.
+was tested (????? careful, under construction) and known problems in
+HDF5-1.3.x. For more details check the HISTORY file in the HDF5 source.
 
-The HDF5 documentation can be found on the NCSA ftp server 
+The HDF5 documentation can be found on the NCSA ftp server
 (ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu) in the directory:
 
      /HDF/HDF5/docs/
@@ -37,35 +36,34 @@ CONTENTS
 New features
 ============
    * The Virtual File Layer, VFL, is added to replace the old file
-     drivers.  It also provides an API for user defined file drivers.
-   * New features added to snapshots.  Use 'snapshot help' to see a
+     drivers. It also provides an API for user defined file drivers.
+   * New features added to snapshots. Use 'snapshot help' to see a
      complete list of features.
    * Improved configure to detect if MPIO routines are available when
      parallel mode is requested.
-   * Added Thread-Safe support.  Phase I implemented.
-   * Added data sieve buffering to raw data I/O path.  This is enabled for
-     all VFL drivers except the mpio & core drivers.  Setting the sieve buffer
-     size is controlled with new API functions: H5Pset_sieve_buf_size() and
-     retrieved with H5Pget_sieve_buf_size().
+   * Added Thread-Safe support. Phase I implemented.
+   * Added data sieve buffering to raw data I/O path. This is enabled
+     for all VFL drivers except the mpio & core drivers. Setting the
+     sieve buffer size is controlled with new API functions:
+     H5Pset_sieve_buf_size() and retrieved with H5Pget_sieve_buf_size().
    * Added new Virtual File Driver, Stream VFD, to send/receive entire
      HDF5 files via socket connections.
-   * As parts of VFL, HDF-GASS and HDF-SRB are also added to this release.  
-     To find out details, please read INSTALL_VFL file. 
-   * Increased maximum number of dimensions for a dataset (H5S_MAX_RANK) from
-     31 to 32 to align with HDF4 & netCDF.
+   * As parts of VFL, HDF-GASS and HDF-SRB are also added to this
+     release. To find out details, please read INSTALL_VFL file. 
+   * Increased maximum number of dimensions for a dataset (H5S_MAX_RANK)
+     from 31 to 32 to align with HDF4 & netCDF.
    * Added 'query' function to VFL drivers.  Also added 'type' parameter to
-     VFL 'read' & 'write' calls, so they are aware of the type of data being
-     accessed in the file.  Updated the VFL document also.
-   * A new h4toh5 uitlity, to convert HDF4 files to analogous 
-     HDF5 files.
+     VFL 'read' & 'write' calls, so they are aware of the type of data
+     being accessed in the file.  Updated the VFL document also.
+   * A new h4toh5 uitlity, to convert HDF4 files to analogous HDF5 files.
    * Added a new array datatype to the datatypes which can be created.  Removed
      "array fields" from compound datatypes (use an array datatype instead).
 
 Release Notes for h4toh5 beta
 =============================
 
-    The h4toh5 utility converts an HDF4 file to an HDF5 file.
-    See the document, "Mapping HDF4 Objects to HDF5 Objects",
+    The h4toh5 utility converts an HDF4 file to an HDF5 file.  See the
+    document, "Mapping HDF4 Objects to HDF5 Objects",
     http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/papers/H4-H5MappingGuidelines.pdf
 
     Known Limitations of the h4toh5 beta release
@@ -77,10 +75,10 @@ Release Notes for h4toh5 beta
 
     2. String datatype
 
-    HDF4 has no 'string' type. String valued data are usually defined 
-    as an array of 'char' in HDF4. The h4toh5 utility will generally
-    map these to HDF5 'String' types rather than array of char, with
-    the following additional rules:
+    HDF4 has no 'string' type. String valued data are usually defined as
+    an array of 'char' in HDF4. The h4toh5 utility will generally map
+    these to HDF5 'String' types rather than array of char, with the
+    following additional rules:
 
        * For the data of HDF4 SDS, image, and palette, if the data is
 	 declared 'DFNT_CHAR8' it will be assumed to be integer and
@@ -95,25 +93,23 @@ Release Notes for h4toh5 beta
 
     3. Compression, Chunking and External storage
 
-    Chunking is supported, but compression and external storage is 
-    not.
+    Chunking is supported, but compression and external storage is not.
 
-    An HDF4 object that uses chunking will be converted to an HDF5
-    file with analogous chunked storage.
+    An HDF4 object that uses chunking will be converted to an HDF5 file
+    with analogous chunked storage.
 
     An HDF4 object that uses compression will be converted to an
     uncompressed HDF5 object.  
 
-    An HDF4 object that uses external storage will be converted to an
-    an HDF5 object without external storage.  
+    An HDF4 object that uses external storage will be converted to an an
+    HDF5 object without external storage.  
 
     4. Memory use
 
-    The beta version of the h4toh5 utility copies data from HDF4
-    objects in a single read followed by a single write to the
-    HDF5 object.  For large objects, this requires a very large 
-    amount of memory, which may be extremely slow or fail on 
-    some platforms.
+    The beta version of the h4toh5 utility copies data from HDF4 objects
+    in a single read followed by a single write to the HDF5 object. For
+    large objects, this requires a very large amount of memory, which may
+    be extremely slow or fail on some platforms.
 
     Note that a dataset that has only been partly written will
     be read completely, including uninitialized data, and all the
@@ -133,61 +129,62 @@ Bug fixes since HDF5-1.2.0
 
 Library
 -------
+
    * The function H5Pset_mpi is renamed as H5Pset_fapl_mpio.
-   * Corrected a floating point number conversion error for the
-     Cray J90 platform.  The error did not convert the value 0.0
-     correctly.
-   * Error was fixed which was not allowing dataset region references to have
-     their regions retrieved correctly.
+   * Corrected a floating point number conversion error for the Cray J90
+     platform. The error did not convert the value 0.0 correctly.
+   * Error was fixed which was not allowing dataset region references to
+     have their regions retrieved correctly.
    * Corrected a bug that caused non-parallel file drivers to fail in
      the parallel version.
-   * Added internal free-lists to reduce memory required by the library and
-     H5garbage_collect API function
-   * Fixed error in H5Giterate which was not updating the "index" parameter
-     correctly.
+   * Added internal free-lists to reduce memory required by the library
+     and H5garbage_collect API function
+   * Fixed error in H5Giterate which was not updating the "index"
+     parameter correctly.
    * Fixed error in hyperslab iteration which was not walking through the
      correct sequence of array elements if hyperslabs were staggered in a
      certain pattern
    * Fixed several other problems in hyperslab iteration code.
-   * Fixed another H5Giterate bug which was causes groups with large numbers
-     of objects in them to misbehave when the callback function returned
-     non-zero values.
+   * Fixed another H5Giterate bug which was causes groups with large
+     numbers of objects in them to misbehave when the callback function
+     returned non-zero values.
    * Changed return type of H5Aiterate and H5A_operator_t typedef to be
      herr_t, to align them with the dataset and group iterator functions.
-   * Changed H5Screate_simple and H5Sset_extent_simple to not allow dimensions
-     of size 0 with out the same dimension being unlimited.
-   * QAK - 4/19/00 - Improved metadata hashing & caching algorithms to avoid
-     many hash flushes and also remove some redundant I/O when moving metadata
-     blocks in the file.
+   * Changed H5Screate_simple and H5Sset_extent_simple to not allow
+     dimensions of size 0 with out the same dimension being unlimited.
+   * QAK - 4/19/00 - Improved metadata hashing & caching algorithms to
+     avoid many hash flushes and also remove some redundant I/O when
+     moving metadata blocks in the file.
    * The "struct(opt)" type conversion function which gets invoked for
      certain compound datatype conversions was fixed for nested compound
      types. This required a small change in the datatype conversion
      function API.
    * Re-wrote lots of the hyperslab code to speed it up quite a bit.
-   * Added bounded garbage collection for the free lists when they run out of
-     memory and also added H5set_free_list_limits API call to allow users to
-     put an upper limit on the amount of memory used for free lists.
-   * Checked for non-existent or deleted objects when dereferencing one with
-     object or region references and disallow dereference.
-   * "Time" datatypes (H5T_UNIX_D*) were not being stored and retrieved from
-     object headers correctly, fixed now.
-   * Fixed H5Dread or H5Dwrite calls with H5FD_MPIO_COLLECTIVE requests that
-     may hang because not all processes are transfer the same amount of data.
-     (A.K.A. prematured collective return when zero amount data requested.)
-     Collective calls that may cause hanging is done via the corresponding
-     MPI-IO independent calls.
+   * Added bounded garbage collection for the free lists when they run
+     out of memory and also added H5set_free_list_limits API call to
+     allow users to put an upper limit on the amount of memory used for
+     free lists.
+   * Checked for non-existent or deleted objects when dereferencing one
+     with object or region references and disallow dereference.
+   * "Time" datatypes (H5T_UNIX_D*) were not being stored and retrieved
+     from object headers correctly, fixed now.
+   * Fixed H5Dread or H5Dwrite calls with H5FD_MPIO_COLLECTIVE requests
+     that may hang because not all processes are transfer the same amount
+     of data. (A.K.A. prematured collective return when zero amount data
+     requested.) Collective calls that may cause hanging is done via the
+     corresponding MPI-IO independent calls.
 
 Configuration
 -------------
 
-   * The hdf5.h include file was fixed to allow the HDF5 Library to be compiled
-     with other libraries/applications that use GNU autoconf. 
-   * Configuration for parallel HDF5 was improved. Configure now attempts to
-     link with libmpi.a and/or libmpio.a as the MPI libraries by default.
-     It also uses "mpirun" to launch MPI tests by default.  It tests to
-     link MPIO routines during the configuration stage, rather than failing
-     later as before.  One can just do "./configure --enable-parallel"
-     if the MPI library is in the system library.
+   * The hdf5.h include file was fixed to allow the HDF5 Library to be
+     compiled with other libraries/applications that use GNU autoconf. 
+   * Configuration for parallel HDF5 was improved. Configure now attempts
+     to link with libmpi.a and/or libmpio.a as the MPI libraries by
+     default. It also uses "mpirun" to launch MPI tests by default. It
+     tests to link MPIO routines during the configuration stage, rather
+     than failing later as before. One can just do "./configure
+     --enable-parallel" if the MPI library is in the system library.
    * Added support for pthread library and thread-safe option.
    * The libhdf5.settings file shows the correct machine byte-sex.
    * Added option "--enable-stream-vfd" to configure w/o the Stream VFD.
@@ -206,9 +203,9 @@ Tools
     * The test script for h5toh4 used to not able to detect the hdp
       dumper command was not valid.  It now detects and reports the
       failure of hdp execution.
-    * Merged the tools with the 1.2.2 branch.  Required adding new macros, VERSION12
-      and VERSION13, used in conditional compilation.  Updated the Windows project files
-      for the tools.            
+    * Merged the tools with the 1.2.2 branch. Required adding new
+      macros, VERSION12 and VERSION13, used in conditional compilation.
+      Updated the Windows project files for the tools.            
     * h5dump displays opaque and bitfield data correctly.
     * h5dump and h5ls can browse files created with the Stream VFD
       (eg. "h5ls <hostname>:<port>").
@@ -227,7 +224,8 @@ Documentation
    
 Platforms Tested:
 ================
- Note: Due to the nature of bug fixes, only static versions of the library and tools were tested.
+ Note: Due to the nature of bug fixes, only static versions of the
+       library and tools were tested.
 
 
   AIX 4.3.2 (IBM SP)            3.6.6
@@ -235,6 +233,7 @@ Platforms Tested:
                                 mpt.1.3
   FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE            gcc 2.95.2
   HP-UX B.10.20                 HP C  HP92453-01 A.10.32
+  HP-UX B.11.00                 HP C  HP92453-01 A.11.00.13
   IRIX 6.5                      MIPSpro cc 7.30
   IRIX64 6.5 (64 & n32)         MIPSpro cc 7.3.1m
                                 mpt.1.3 (SGI MPI 3.2.0.0)
@@ -242,6 +241,7 @@ Platforms Tested:
   Linux 2.2.10 SuSE             egcs-2.91.66               configured with
   (i686-pc-linux-gnu)                                      --disable-hsizet
                                 mpich-1.2.0 egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux 
+  Linux 2.2.16 RedHat		gcc-2.95.2
 
   OSF1 V4.0                     DEC-V5.2-040
   SunOS 5.6                     cc WorkShop Compilers 4.2  no optimization