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-HDF5 HISTORY
-============
-
-CONTENTS
-I.   Release Information for hdf5-1.2.2
-II.  Release Information for hdf5-1.2.1
-III. Release Information for hdf5-1.2.0
-     A. Platforms Supported
-     B. Known Problems
-     C. Changes Since Version 1.0.1  
-        1. Documentation
-        2. Configuration
-        3. Debugging
-        4. Datatypes
-        5. Dataspaces
-        6. Persistent Pointers
-        7. Parallel Support
-        8. New API Functions
-           a. Property List Interface
-           b. Dataset Interface
-           c. Dataspace Interface
-           d. Datatype Interface
-           e. Identifier Interface
-           f. Reference Interface
-           g. Ragged Arrays
-        9. Tools
-
-IV.  Changes from Release 1.0.0 to Release 1.0.1
-V.   Changes from the Beta 1.0.0 Release to Release 1.0.0
-VI.  Changes from the Second Alpha 1.0.0 Release to the Beta 1.0.0 Release
-VII. Changes from the First Alpha 1.0.0 Release to the 
-         Second Alpha 1.0.0 Release
-
-[Search on the string '%%%%' for per-release section breaks.]
-
------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-
-
-%%%%1.2.2%%%%   Release Information for hdf5-1.2.2 (6/23/00)
-
-I. Release Information for hdf5-1.2.2
-
-INTRODUCTION
-
-This document describes the differences between HDF5-1.2.1 and 
-HDF5-1.2.2, and contains information on the platforms where HDF5-1.2.2
-was tested and known problems in HDF5-1.2.2. 
-
-The HDF5 documentation can be found on the NCSA ftp server 
-(ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu) in the directory:
-
-     /HDF/HDF5/docs/
-
-For more information look at the HDF5 home page at:
-   
-    http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/
-
-If you have any questions or comments, please send them to:
-
-    hdfhelp@ncsa.uiuc.edu
-
-
-CONTENTS
-
-- Features Added since HDF5-1.2.1 
-- Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.2.1
-- Known Problems
-- Platforms Tested
-
-
-Features Added since HDF5-1.2.1
-===============================
-   * Added internal free-lists to reduce memory required by the library and
-     H5garbage_collect API function.
-   * h5dump displays opaque and bitfield types.
-   * 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.
-
-Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.2.1
-==========================
-   * h5dump correctly displays compound datatypes, including simple and
-     nested compound types.
-   * h5dump correctly displays the committed copy of predefined types.
-   * Corrected an error in h5toh4 which did not convert the 32-bit
-     int from HDF5 to HDF4 correctly for the T3E platform.
-   * Corrected a floating point number conversion error for the
-     Cray J90 platform.  The error did not convert the value 0.0
-     correctly.
-   * 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 caused 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 without the same dimension being unlimited.
-   * Improved metadata hashing & caching algorithms to avoid
-     many hash flushes and also removed some redundant I/O when moving metadata
-     blocks in the file.
-   * The libhdf5.settings file shows the correct machine byte-sex.
-   * 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.
-
-Known Problems
-==============
-
-o SunOS 5.6 with C WorkShop Compilers 4.2:  hyperslab selections will 
-  fail if library is compiled using optimization of any level.
-o TFLOPS: dsets test fails if compiled with optimization turned on.
-o J90: tools fail to dispay data for the datasets with a compound datatype. 
-
-Platforms Tested
-================
-
-  AIX 4.3.3 (IBM SP)            3.6.6                               | binaries
-                                mpicc using mpich 1.1.2             | are not
-                                mpicc_r using IBM MPI-IO prototype  | available
-  AIX 4.3.2.0 (IBM SP)          xlc 5.0.1.0
-  Cray J90 10.0.0.7             cc 6.3.0.2
-  Cray T3E 2.0.5.29             cc 6.3.0.2
-                                mpt.1.3
-  FreeBSD 4.0                   gcc 2.95.2
-  HP-UX B.10.20                 HP C  HP92453-01 A.10.32
-  HP-UX B.11.00                 HP92453-01 A.11.00.13 HP C Compiler 
-                                (static library only, h5toh4 tool is not available) 
-  IRIX 6.5                      MIPSpro cc 7.30
-  IRIX64 6.5 (64 & n32)         MIPSpro cc 7.3.1m
-                                mpt.1.4
-
-  Linux 2.2.10 SMP              gcc 2.95.1 
-                                mpicc(gcc-2.95.1)
-                                gcc (egcs-2.91.66)
-                                mpicc (egcs-2.91.66)
-  Linux 2.2.16 (RedHat 6.2)     gcc 2.95.2
-
-  OSF1 V4.0                     DEC-V5.2-040
-  SunOS 5.6                     cc WorkShop Compilers 5.0 no optimization
-  SunOS 5.7                     cc WorkShop Compilers 5.0
-  SolarisX86 SunOS 5.5.1        gcc version 2.7.2 with --disable-hsizet
-  TFLOPS 3.2.1                  pgcc Rel 3.1-3i
-                                mpich-1.1.2 with local changes
-  Windows NT4.0 sp5             MSVC++ 6.0
-  Windows 98                    MSVC++ 6.0
-  Windows 2000                  MSVC++ 6.0
-
-
-
-%%%%1.2.1%%%%   Release Information for hdf5-1.2.1
-
-II. Release Information for hdf5-1.2.1
-
-Bug fixes since HDF5-1.2.0
-==========================
-
-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.
-
-Library
--------
-
-   * Error was fixed which was not allowing dataset region references to have
-     their regions retrieved 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.
-
-Tests
-------
-
-   * Added additional tests for group and attribute iteration.
-   * Added additional test for staggered hyperslab iteration.
-   * Added additional test for random 5-D hyperslab selection.
-
-Tools
-------
-
-   * Added an option, -V, to show the version information of h5dump.
-   * Fixed a core dumping bug of h5toh4 when executed on platforms like 
-     TFLOPS.
-   * 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.
-
-Documentation
--------------
-
-   * User's Guide and Reference Manual were updated. 
-     See doc/html/PSandPDF/index.html for more details. 
-
-   
-Platforms 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
-  Cray T3E 2.0.4.81             cc 6.3.0.1
-                                mpt.1.3
-  FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE            gcc 2.95.2
-  HP-UX B.10.20                 HP C  HP92453-01 A.10.32
-  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)
-
-  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 
-
-  OSF1 V4.0                     DEC-V5.2-040
-  SunOS 5.6                     cc WorkShop Compilers 4.2  no optimization
-  SunOS 5.7                     cc WorkShop Compilers 5.0
-  TFLOPS 2.8                    cicc (pgcc Rel 3.0-5i)
-                                mpich-1.1.2 with local changes
-  Windows NT4.0 sp5             MSVC++ 6.0
-
-Known Problems:
-==============
-
-o SunOS 5.6 with C WorkShop Compilers 4.2:  Hyperslab selections will 
-  fail if library is compiled using optimization of any level.
-
-
-
-%%%%1.2.0%%%%   Release Information for hdf5-1.2.0
-         
-III. Release Information for hdf5-1.2.0
-
-A. Platforms Supported
-   -------------------
-
-Operating systems listed below with compiler information and MPI library, if
-applicable, are systems that HDF5 1.2.0 was tested on.
-
-                           Compiler & libraries
-  Platform                      Information              Comment
-  --------                      ----------               -------- 
-                                
-  AIX 4.3.2 (IBM SP)            3.6.6
-
-  Cray J90 10.0.0.6             cc 6.3.0.0
-
-  Cray T3E 2.0.4.61             cc 6.2.1.0 
-                                mpt.1.3
-
-  FreeBSD 3.2                   gcc 2.95.1
-
-  HP-UX B.10.20                 HP C  HP92453-01 A.10.32
-                                gcc 2.8.1
-
-  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)
-
-  Linux 2.2.10                  egcs-2.91.66               configured with
-  						         --disable-hsizet
-                                                           lbraries: glibc2
-
-  OSF1 V4.0                     DEC-V5.2-040
-
-  SunOS 5.6                     cc WorkShop Compilers 4.2   
-                                                           no optimization
-  			        gcc 2.8.1
-
-  SunOS 5.7                     cc WorkShop Compilers 5.0
-                                gcc 2.8.1
- 
-  TFLOPS 2.7.1                  cicc (pgcc Rel 3.0-4i)
-  			        mpich-1.1.2 with local changes
-
-  Windows NT4.0 intel           MSVC++ 5.0 and 6.0
-
-  Windows NT alpha 4.0          MSVC++ 5.0 
-
-  Windows 98                    MSVC++ 5.0
-
-
-B. Known Problems
-   --------------
-
-* NT alpha 4.0
-  Dumper utiliy h5dump fails if linked with DLL.
-
-* SunOS 5.6 with C WorkShop Compilers 4.2
-  Hyperslab selections will fail if library is compiled using optimization
-  of any level.
-
- 
-C. Changes Since Version 1.0.1
-   ---------------------------
-
-1. Documentation
-   -------------
-
-* More examples
-
-* Updated user guide, reference manual, and format specification.
-
-* Self-contained documentation for installations isolated from the
-  Internet.
-
-* HDF5 Tutorial was added to the documentation  
-
-2. Configuration
-   -------------
-
-* Better detection and support for MPI-IO.
-
-* Recognition of compilers with known code generation problems.
-
-* Support for various compilers on a single architecture (e.g., the
-  native compiler and the GNU compilers).
-
-* Ability to build from read-only media and with different compilers
-  and/or options concurrently.
-
-* Added a libhdf5.settings file which summarizes the configuration
-  information and is installed along with the library.
-
-* Builds a shared library on most systems that support it.
-
-* Support for Cray T3E, J90 and Windows/NT.
-
-3. Debugging
-   ---------
-
-* Improved control and redirection of debugging and tracing messages.
-
-4. Datatypes
-   ---------
-
-* Optimizations to compound datatype conversions and I/O operations.
-
-* Added nearly 100 optimized conversion functions for native datatypes 
-  including support for non-aligned data.
-
-* Added support for bitfield, opaque, and enumeration types.
-
-* Added distinctions between signed and unsigned char types to the
-  list of predefined native hdf5 datatypes.
-
-* Added HDF5 type definitions for C9x types like int32_t.
-
-* Application-defined type conversion functions can handle non-packed
-  data.
-
-* Changed the H5Tunregister() function to use wildcards when matching
-  conversion functions.  H5Tregister_hard() and H5Tregister_soft()
-  were combined into H5Tregister().
-
-* Support for variable-length datatypes (arrays of varying length per
-  dataset element). Variable length strings currently supported only
-  as variable length arrays of 1-byte integers.
-
-5. Dataspaces
-   ----------
-
-* New query functions for selections.
-
-* I/O operations bypass the stripmining loop and go directly to
-  storage for certain contiguous selections in the absense of type
-  conversions.  In other cases the stripmining buffers are used more
-  effectively.
-
-* Reduced the number of I/O requests under certain circumstances,
-  improving performance on systems with high I/O latency.
-
-6. Persistent Pointers
-   -------------------
-
-* Object (serial and parallel) and dataset region (serial only)
-  references are implemented.
-
-7. Parallel Support
-   ----------------
-
-* Improved parallel I/O performance.
-
-* Supported new platforms: Cray T3E, Linux, DEC Cluster.
-
-* Use vendor supported version of MPIO on SGI O2K and Cray platforms.
-
-* Improved the algorithm that translates an HDF5 hyperslab selection
-  into an MPI type for better collective I/O performance.
-
-8. New API functions 
-   -----------------
-
-  a. Property List Interface:
-     ------------------------
-
-  H5Pset_xfer		- set data transfer properties
-  H5Pset_preserve      - set dataset transfer property list status 
-  H5Pget_preserve      - get dataset transfer property list status
-  H5Pset_hyper_cache   - indicates whether to cache hyperslab blocks during I/O
-  H5Pget_hyper_cache   - returns information regarding the caching of 
-                         hyperslab blocks during I/O
-  H5Pget_btree_ratios  - sets B-tree split ratios for a dataset 
-                         transfer property list
-  H5Pset_btree_ratios  - gets B-tree split ratios for a dataset
-                         transfer property list
-  H5Pset_vlen_mem_manager - sets the memory manager for variable-length 
-                            datatype allocation
-  H5Pget_vlen_mem_manager - sets the memory manager for variable-length
-                            datatype allocation
-
-  b. Dataset Interface:
-     ------------------
-
-  H5Diterate           - iterate over all selected elements in a dataspace
-  H5Dget_storage_size  - return the amount of storage required for a dataset
-  H5Dvlen_reclaim      - reclaim VL datatype memory buffers
-
-  c. Dataspace Interface:
-     --------------------
-  H5Sget_select_hyper_nblocks   - get number of hyperslab blocks
-  H5Sget_select_hyper_blocklist - get the list of hyperslab blocks 
-                                  currently selected
-  H5Sget_select_elem_npoints    - get the number of element points 
-                                  in the current selection
-  H5Sget_select_elem_pointlist  - get the list of element points 
-                                  currently selected
-  H5Sget_select_bounds          - gets the bounding box containing 
-                                  the current selection
-
-  d. Datatype Interface:
-     -------------------
-  H5Tget_super         - return the base datatype from which a 
-                         datatype is derived
-  H5Tvlen_create       - creates a new variable-length dataype
-  H5Tenum_create       - creates a new enumeration datatype
-  H5Tenum_insert       - inserts a new enumeration datatype member
-  H5Tenum_nameof       - returns the symbol name corresponding to a 
-                         specified member of an enumeration datatype
-  H5Tvalueof           - return the value corresponding to a 
-                         specified member of an enumeration datatype 
-  H5Tget_member_value  - return the value of an enumeration datatype member
-  H5Tset_tag           - tags an opaque datatype
-  H5Tget_tag           - gets the tag associated with an opaque datatype
-
-  e. Identifier Interface:
-     ---------------------
-  H5Iget_type          - retrieve the type of an object
-
-  f. Reference Interface:
-     --------------------
-  H5Rcreate            - creates a reference
-  H5Rdereference       - open the HDF5 object referenced
-  H5Rget_region        - retrieve a dataspace with the specified region selected
-  H5Rget_object_type   - retrieve the type of object that an 
-                         object reference points to
-
-  g. Ragged Arrays (alpha) (names of those API functions were changed):
-     ------------------------------------------------------------------
-   H5RAcreate		- create a new ragged array (old name was H5Rcreate)
-   H5RAopen		- open an existing array    (old name was H5Ropen)
-   H5RAclose		- close a ragged array      (old name was H5Rclose)
-   H5RAwrite		- write to an array         (old name was H5Rwrite)
-   H5RAread		- read from an array        (old name was H5Rread)
-
-
-9. Tools
-   -----
-
-* Enhancements to the h5ls tool including the ability to list objects
-  from more than one file, to display raw hexadecimal data, to
-  show file addresses for raw data, to format output more reasonably,
-  to show object attributes, and to perform a recursive listing, 
-
-* Enhancements to h5dump: support new data types added since previous
-  versions.
-
-* h5toh4: An hdf5 to hdf4 converter.
-
-
-
-%%%%1.0.1%%%%   Release Information for hdf5-1.0.1
-         
-IV. Changes from Release 1.0.0 to Release 1.0.1
-
-* [Improvement]: configure sets up the Makefile in the parallel tests
-  suit (testpar/) correctly.
-
-* [Bug-Fix]: Configure failed for all IRIX versions other than 6.3.
-  It now configures correctly for all IRIX 6.x version.
-
-* Released Parallel HDF5 
-
-     Supported Features:
-     ------------------
-
-     HDF5 files are accessed according to the communicator and INFO
-     object defined in the property list set by H5Pset_mpi.
-
-     Independent read and write accesses to fixed and extendable dimension
-     datasets.
-
-     Collective read and write accesses to fixed dimension datasets.
-
-     Supported Platforms:
-     -------------------
-
-     Intel Red
-     IBM SP2
-     SGI Origin 2000
-
-     Changes In This Release: 
-     -----------------------
-
-   o Support of Access to Extendable Dimension Datasets.
-     Extendable dimension datasets must use chunked storage methods.
-     A new function, H5Dextend, is created to extend the current
-     dimensions of a dataset.  The current release requires the
-     MPI application must make a collective call to extend the
-     dimensions of an extendable dataset before writing to the
-     newly extended area.  (The serial does not require the
-     call of H5Dextend.  The dimensions of an extendable
-     dataset is increased when data is written to beyond the
-     current dimensions but within the maximum dimensions.)
-     The required collective call of H5Dextend may be relaxed
-     in future release.
-
-     This release only support independent read and write accesses
-     to extendable datasets.  Collective accesses to extendable
-     datasets will be implemented in future releases.
-
-   o Collective access to fixed dimension datasets.
-     Collective access to a dataset can be specified in the transfer
-     property list argument in H5Dread and H5Dwrite.  The current
-     release supports collective access to fixed dimension datasets.
-     Collective access to extendable datasets will be implemented in
-     future releases.
-
-   o HDF5 files are opened according to Communicator and INFO object.
-     H5Dopen now records the communicator and INFO setup by H5Pset_mmpi
-     and pass them to the corresponding MPIO open file calls for
-     processing.
-
-   o This release has been tested on IBM SP2, Intel Red and SGI Origin 2000
-     systems.  It uses the ROMIO version of MPIO interface for parallel
-     I/O supports.
-
-
-
-%%%%1.0.0%%%%   Release Information for hdf5-1.0.0
-
-V. Changes from the Beta 1.0.0 Release to Release 1.0.0
-
-* Added fill values for datasets.  For contiguous datasets fill value
-  performance may be quite poor since the fill value is written to the 
-  entire dataset when the dataset is created.  This will be remedied
-  in a future version.  Chunked datasets using fill values do not
-  incur any additional overhead. See H5Pset_fill_value().
-
-* Multiple hdf5 files can be "mounted" on one another to create a
-  larger virtual file. See H5Fmount().
-
-* Object names can be removed or changed but objects are never
-  actually removed from the file yet. See H5Gunlink() and H5Gmove().
-
-* Added a tuning mechanism for B-trees to insure that sequential
-  writes to chunked datasets use less overhead.  See H5Pset_btree_ratios().
-
-* Various optimizations and bug fixes.
-
-
-
-%%%%1.0.0 Beta%%%%   Release Information for hdf5-1.0.0 Beta
-
-VI. Changes from the Second Alpha 1.0.0 Release to the Beta 1.0.0 Release
-
-* Strided hyperslab selections in dataspaces now working.
-
-* The compression API has been replaced with a more general filter
-  API.  See doc/html/Filters.html for details.
-
-* Alpha-quality 2d ragged arrays are implemented as a layer built on
-  top of other hdf5 objects.  The API and storage format will almost
-  certainly change.
-
-* More debugging support including API tracing.  See Debugging.html.
-
-* C and Fortran style 8-bit fixed-length character string types are
-  supported with space or null padding or null termination and
-  translations between them.
-
-* Added function H5Fflush() to write all cached data immediately to
-  the file.
-
-* Datasets maintain a modification time which can be retrieved with
-  H5Gstat().
-
-* The h5ls tool can display much more information, including all the
-  values of a dataset.
-
-
-
-%%%%1.0.0 Alpha 2%%%%   Release Information for hdf5-1.0.0 Alpha 2
-
-VII. Changes from the First Alpha 1.0.0 Release to 
-     the Second Alpha 1.0.0 Release
-
-* Two of the packages have been renamed.  The data space API has been
-  renamed from `H5P' to `H5S' and the property list (template) API has 
-  been renamed from `H5C' to `H5P'.
-
-* The new attribute API `H5A' has been added.  An attribute is a small 
-  dataset which can be attached to some other object (for instance, a
-  4x4 transformation matrix attached to a 3-dimensional dataset, or an 
-  English abstract attached to a group).
-
-* The error handling API `H5E' has been completed.  By default, when an
-  API function returns failure an error stack is displayed on the
-  standard error stream.  The H5Eset_auto() controls the automatic
-  printing and H5E_BEGIN_TRY/H5E_END_TRY macros can temporarily
-  disable the automatic error printing.
-
-* Support for large files and datasets (>2GB) has been added.  There
-  is an html document that describes how it works.  Some of the types
-  for function arguments have changed to support this: all arguments
-  pertaining to sizes of memory objects are `size_t' and all arguments 
-  pertaining to file sizes are `hsize_t'.
-
-* More data type conversions have been added although none of them are
-  fine tuned for performance.  There are new converters from integer
-  to integer and float to float, but not between integers and floating
-  points.  A bug has been fixed in the converter between compound
-  types.
-
-* The numbered types have been removed from the API: int8, uint8,
-  int16, uint16, int32, uint32, int64, uint64, float32, and float64.
-  Use standard C types instead.  Similarly, the numbered types were
-  removed from the H5T_NATIVE_* architecture; use unnumbered types
-  which correspond to the standard C types like H5T_NATIVE_INT.
-
-* More debugging support was added.  If tracing is enabled at
-  configuration time (the default) and the HDF5_TRACE environment
-  variable is set to a file descriptor then all API calls will emit
-  the function name, argument names and values, and return value on
-  that file number.  There is an html document that describes this.
-  If appropriate debugging options are enabled at configuration time,
-  some packages will display performance information on stderr.
-
-* Data types can be stored in the file as independent objects and
-  multiple datasets can share a data type.
-
-* The raw data I/O stream has been implemented and the application can 
-  control meta and raw data caches, so I/O performance should be
-  improved from the first alpha release.
-
-* Group and attribute query functions have been implemented so it is
-  now possible to find out the contents of a file with no prior
-  knowledge.
-
-* External raw data storage allows datasets to be written by other
-  applications or I/O libraries and described and accessed through
-  HDF5.
-
-* Hard and soft (symbolic) links are implemented which allow groups to 
-  share objects. Dangling and recursive symbolic links are supported.
-
-* User-defined data compression is implemented although we may
-  generalize the interface to allow arbitrary user-defined filters
-  which can be used for compression, checksums, encryption,
-  performance monitoring, etc.  The publicly-available `deflate'
-  method is predefined if the GNU libz.a can be found at configuration 
-  time.
-
-* The configuration scripts have been modified to make it easier to
-  build debugging vs. production versions of the library.
-
-* The library automatically checks that the application was compiled
-  with the correct version of header files.
-
-
-		    Parallel HDF5 Changes
-
-* Parallel support for fixed dimension datasets with contiguous or
-  chunked storages.  Also, support unlimited dimension datasets which
-  must use chunk storage.  No parallel support for compressed datasets.
-
-* Collective data transfer for H5Dread/H5Dwrite.  Collective access
-  support for datasets with contiguous storage only, thus only fixed
-  dimension datasets for now.
-
-* H5Pset_mpi and H5Pget_mpi no longer have the access_mode
-  argument.  It is taken over by the data-transfer property list
-  of H5Dread/H5Dwrite.
-
-* New functions H5Pset_xfer and H5Pget_xfer to handle the
-  specification of independent or collective data transfer_mode
-  in the dataset transfer properties list.  The properties
-  list can be used to specify data transfer mode in the H5Dwrite
-  and H5Dread function calls.
-
-* Added parallel support for datasets with chunked storage layout.
-  When a dataset is extend in a PHDF5 file, all processes that open
-  the file must collectively call H5Dextend with identical new dimension
-  sizes.
-
-
-			LIST OF API FUNCTIONS
-
-The following functions are implemented. Errors are returned if an
-attempt is made to use some feature which is not implemented and
-printing the error stack will show `not implemented yet'.
-
-Library
-   H5check		- check that lib version matches header version
-   H5open		- initialize library (happens automatically)
-   H5close		- shut down the library (happens automatically)
-   H5dont_atexit	- don't call H5close on exit
-   H5get_libversion	- retrieve library version info
-   H5check_version	- check for specific library version
-
-Property Lists
-   H5Pclose		- release template resources
-   H5Pcopy		- copy a template
-   H5Pcreate		- create a new template
-   H5Pget_chunk		- get chunked storage properties
-   H5Pset_chunk		- set chunked storage properties
-   H5Pget_class		- get template class
-   H5Pget_istore_k	- get chunked storage properties
-   H5Pset_istore_k	- set chunked storage properties
-   H5Pget_layout	- get raw data layout class
-   H5Pset_layout	- set raw data layout class
-   H5Pget_sizes		- get address and size sizes
-   H5Pset_sizes		- set address and size sizes
-   H5Pget_sym_k		- get symbol table storage properties
-   H5Pset_sym_k		- set symbol table storage properties
-   H5Pget_userblock	- get user-block size
-   H5Pset_userblock	- set user-block size
-   H5Pget_version	- get file version numbers
-   H5Pget_alignment	- get data alignment properties
-   H5Pset_alignment	- set data alignment properties
-   H5Pget_external_count- get count of external data files
-   H5Pget_external	- get information about an external data file
-   H5Pset_external	- add a new external data file to the list
-   H5Pget_driver	- get low-level file driver class
-   H5Pget_stdio		- get properties for stdio low-level driver
-   H5Pset_stdio		- set properties for stdio low-level driver
-   H5Pget_sec2		- get properties for sec2 low-level driver
-   H5Pset_sec2		- set properties for sec2 low-level driver
-   H5Pget_core		- get properties for core low-level driver
-   H5Pset_core		- set properties for core low-level driver
-   H5Pget_split		- get properties for split low-level driver
-   H5Pset_split		- set properties for split low-level driver
-   H5P_get_family	- get properties for family low-level driver
-   H5P_set_family	- set properties for family low-level driver
-   H5Pget_cache		- get meta- and raw-data caching properties
-   H5Pset_cache		- set meta- and raw-data caching properties
-   H5Pget_buffer	- get raw-data I/O pipe buffer properties
-   H5Pset_buffer	- set raw-data I/O pipe buffer properties
-   H5Pget_preserve	- get type conversion preservation properties
-   H5Pset_preserve	- set type conversion preservation properties
-   H5Pget_nfilters	- get number of raw data filters
-   H5Pget_filter	- get raw data filter properties
-   H5Pset_filter	- set raw data filter properties
-   H5Pset_deflate	- set deflate compression filter properties
-   H5Pget_mpi		- get MPI-IO properties
-   H5Pset_mpi		- set MPI-IO properties
-   H5Pget_xfer		- get data transfer properties
- + H5Pset_xfer		- set data transfer properties
- + H5Pset_preserve      - set dataset transfer property list status 
- + H5Pget_preserve      - get dataset transfer property list status
- + H5Pset_hyper_cache   - indicates whether to cache hyperslab blocks during I/O
- + H5Pget_hyper_cache   - returns information regarding the caching of 
-                          hyperslab blocks during I/O
- + H5Pget_btree_ratios  - sets B-tree split ratios for a dataset 
-                          transfer property list
- + H5Pset_btree_ratios  - gets B-tree split ratios for a dataset
-                          transfer property list
- + H5Pset_vlen_mem_manager - sets the memory manager for variable-length 
-                             datatype allocation
- + H5Pget_vlen_mem_manager - sets the memory manager for variable-length
-                             datatype allocation
-
-Datasets
-   H5Dclose		- release dataset resources
-   H5Dcreate		- create a new dataset
-   H5Dget_space		- get data space
-   H5Dget_type		- get data type
-   H5Dget_create_plist	- get dataset creation properties
-   H5Dopen		- open an existing dataset
-   H5Dread		- read raw data
-   H5Dwrite		- write raw data
-   H5Dextend		- extend a dataset
- + H5Diterate           - iterate over all selected elements in a dataspace
- + H5Dget_storage_size  - return the amount of storage required for a dataset
- + H5Dvlen_reclaim      - reclaim VL datatype memory buffers
-
-Attributes
-   H5Acreate		- create a new attribute
-   H5Aopen_name		- open an attribute by name
-   H5Aopen_idx		- open an attribute by number
-   H5Awrite		- write values into an attribute
-   H5Aread		- read values from an attribute
-   H5Aget_space		- get attribute data space
-   H5Aget_type		- get attribute data type
-   H5Aget_name		- get attribute name
-   H5Anum_attrs		- return the number of attributes for an object
-   H5Aiterate		- iterate over an object's attributes
-   H5Adelete		- delete an attribute
-   H5Aclose		- close an attribute
-
-Errors
-   H5Eclear		- clear the error stack
-   H5Eprint		- print an error stack
-   H5Eget_auto		- get automatic error reporting settings
-   H5Eset_auto		- set automatic error reporting
-   H5Ewalk		- iterate over the error stack
-   H5Ewalk_cb		- the default error stack iterator function
-   H5Eget_major		- get the message for the major error number
-   H5Eget_minor		- get the message for the minor error number
-
-Files
-   H5Fclose		- close a file and release resources
-   H5Fcreate		- create a new file
-   H5Fget_create_plist	- get file creation property list
-   H5Fget_access_plist	- get file access property list
-   H5Fis_hdf5		- determine if a file is an hdf5 file
-   H5Fopen		- open an existing file
-   H5Freopen            - reopen an HDF5 file
-   H5Fmount             - mount a file
-   H5Funmount           - unmount a file
-   H5Fflush             - flush all buffers associated with a file to disk
-
-Groups
-   H5Gclose		- close a group and release resources
-   H5Gcreate    	- create a new group
-   H5Gopen		- open an existing group
-   H5Giterate   	- iterate over the contents of a group
-   H5Gmove		- change the name of some object
-   H5Glink		- create a hard or soft link to an object
-   H5Gunlink    	- break the link between a name and an object
-   H5Gget_objinfo	- get information about a group entry
-   H5Gget_linkval	- get the value of a soft link
-   H5Gget_comment	- get the comment string for an object
-   H5Gset_comment	- set the comment string for an object
-
-Dataspaces
-   H5Screate	        - create a new data space
-   H5Scopy		- copy a data space
-   H5Sclose		- release data space
-   H5Screate_simple	- create a new simple data space
-   H5Sset_space		- set simple data space extents
-   H5Sis_simple		- determine if data space is simple
-   H5Sset_extent_simple	- set simple data space dimensionality and size
-   H5Sget_simple_extent_npoints	- get number of points in simple extent
-   H5Sget_simple_extent_ndims - get simple data space dimensionality
-   H5Sget_simple_extent_dims - get simple data space size
-   H5Sget_simple_extent_type - get type of simple extent
-   H5Sset_extent_none	- reset extent to be empty
-   H5Sextent_copy	- copy the extent from one data space to another
-   H5Sget_select_npoints - get number of points selected for I/O
-   H5Sselect_hyperslab	- set hyperslab dataspace selection
-   H5Sselect_elements   - set element sequence dataspace selection
-   H5Sselect_all	- select entire extent for I/O
-   H5Sselect_none	- deselect all elements of extent
-   H5Soffset_simple	- set selection offset
-   H5Sselect_valid	- determine if selection is valid for extent
- + H5Sget_select_hyper_nblocks   - get number of hyperslab blocks
- + H5Sget_select_hyper_blocklist - get the list of hyperslab blocks 
-                                   currently selected
- + H5Sget_select_elem_npoints    - get the number of element points 
-                                   in the current selection
- + H5Sget_select_elem_pointlist  - get the list of element points 
-                                   currently selected
- + H5Sget_select_bounds          - gets the bounding box containing 
-                                   the current selection
-
-Datatypes
-   H5Tclose		- release data type resources
-   H5Topen		- open a named data type
-   H5Tcommit		- name a data type
-   H5Tcommitted		- determine if a type is named
-   H5Tcopy		- copy a data type
-   H5Tcreate		- create a new data type
-   H5Tequal		- compare two data types
-   H5Tlock		- lock type to prevent changes
-   H5Tfind		- find a data type conversion function
-   H5Tconvert		- convert data from one type to another
-   H5Tregister    	- register a conversion function
-   H5Tunregister	- remove a conversion function
-   H5Tget_overflow	- get function that handles overflow conv. cases
-   H5Tset_overflow	- set function to handle overflow conversion cases
-   H5Tget_class		- get data type class
-   H5Tget_cset		- get character set
-   H5Tget_ebias		- get exponent bias
-   H5Tget_fields	- get floating point fields
-   H5Tget_inpad		- get inter-field padding
-   H5Tget_member_dims	- get struct member dimensions
-   H5Tget_member_name	- get struct member name
-   H5Tget_member_offset	- get struct member byte offset
-   H5Tget_member_type	- get struct member type
-   H5Tget_nmembers	- get number of struct members
-   H5Tget_norm		- get floating point normalization
-   H5Tget_offset	- get bit offset within type
-   H5Tget_order		- get byte order
-   H5Tget_pad		- get padding type
-   H5Tget_precision	- get precision in bits
-   H5Tget_sign		- get integer sign type
-   H5Tget_size		- get size in bytes
-   H5Tget_strpad	- get string padding
-   H5Tinsert		- insert scalar struct member
-   H5Tinsert_array	- insert array struct member
-   H5Tpack		- pack struct members
-   H5Tset_cset		- set character set
-   H5Tset_ebias		- set exponent bias
-   H5Tset_fields	- set floating point fields
-   H5Tset_inpad		- set inter-field padding
-   H5Tset_norm		- set floating point normalization
-   H5Tset_offset	- set bit offset within type
-   H5Tset_order		- set byte order
-   H5Tset_pad		- set padding type
-   H5Tset_precision	- set precision in bits
-   H5Tset_sign		- set integer sign type
-   H5Tset_size		- set size in bytes
-   H5Tset_strpad	- set string padding
- + H5Tget_super         - return the base datatype from which a 
-                          datatype is derived
- + H5Tvlen_create       - creates a new variable-length dataype
- + H5Tenum_create       - creates a new enumeration datatype
- + H5Tenum_insert       - inserts a new enumeration datatype member
- + H5Tenum_nameof       - returns the symbol name corresponding to a 
-                          specified member of an enumeration datatype
- + H5Tvalueof           - return the value corresponding to a 
-                          specified member of an enumeration datatype 
- + H5Tget_member_value  - return the value of an enumeration datatype member
- + H5Tset_tag           - tags an opaque datatype
- + H5Tget_tag           - gets the tag associated with an opaque datatype
-
- - H5Tregister_hard	- register specific type conversion function
- - H5Tregister_soft	- register general type conversion function
-
-Filters
-   H5Tregister		- register a conversion function 
-
-Compression
-   H5Zregister		- register new compression and uncompression 
-                          functions for a method specified by a method number
-
-Identifiers
- + H5Iget_type          - retrieve the type of an object
-
-References
- + H5Rcreate            - creates a reference
- + H5Rdereference       - open the HDF5 object referenced
- + H5Rget_region        - retrieve a dataspace with the specified region selected
- + H5Rget_object_type   - retrieve the type of object that an 
-                          object reference points to
-
-Ragged Arrays (alpha)
-   H5RAcreate		- create a new ragged array
-   H5RAopen		- open an existing array
-   H5RAclose		- close a ragged array
-   H5RAwrite		- write to an array
-   H5RAread		- read from an array
-
-