[svn-r673] Changes since 19980908

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./COPYING
	Reformatted as text instead of C.  Removed zlib crew from the
	list of contributors since no zlib code is actually in the
	hdf5 library.

./INSTALL
./INSTALL.ascired
./MANIFEST
	Minor updates for Beta release including version number
	change.

./INSTALL_MAINT
	Added information about making a release.

./RELEASE
	Updated function list based on public header files.

./bin/checkposix
	Got rid of complaints about some obvious things.

./doc/html/H5.api.html
./doc/html/RM_H5F.html
./src/H5F.c
./src/H5Fpublic.h
./test/tfile.c
	Changed H5Fget_create_template() and H5Fget_access_template()
	to H5Fget_create_plist() and H5Fget_access_plist() since that
	conforms better to lots of other names.

./doc/html/Datatypes.html
./doc/html/ExternalFiles.html
./doc/html/Files.html
./doc/html/H5.api.html
./doc/html/H5.sample_code.html
./doc/html/RM_H5F.html
./doc/html/RM_H5Front.html
	Changed `template' to `property list', etc.

./doc/html/Ragged.html	   [NEW]
	Documentation for ragged arrays.

./src/H5Iprivate.h
./src/H5Ipublic.h
./src/H5I.c
	Changed the scope of some symbols to be more local.

./src/H5.c
./src/H5AC.c
./src/H5D.c
./src/H5E.c
./src/H5F.c
./src/H5Ffamily.c
./src/H5Fistore.c
./src/H5Flow.c
./src/H5Fsec2.c
./src/H5Fsplit.c
./src/H5Fstdio.c
./src/H5G.c
./src/H5Gnode.c
./src/H5HG.c
./src/H5I.c
./src/H5O.c
./src/H5Ocomp.c
./src/H5Odtype.c
./src/H5Oefl.c
./src/H5Omtime.c
./src/H5Oname.c
./src/H5P.c
./src/H5S.c
./src/H5Shyper.c
./src/H5Tbit.c
./src/H5Tconv.c
./src/H5V.c
./src/H5Z.c
./src/H5private.h
	Fixed some violations of our naming scheme by adding HD to the
	beginning of all Posix functions.

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diff --git a/INSTALL_MAINT b/INSTALL_MAINT
index 5066a55..20ee264 100644
--- a/INSTALL_MAINT
+++ b/INSTALL_MAINT
@@ -97,3 +97,15 @@ Information for HDF5 maintainers:
 
   which limits the number of children to two (this doesn't work at the
   top level because the `-j2' is not passed to recursive makes).
+
+* To create a release tarball go to the top-level directory and run
+  ./bin/release.  You can optionally supply one or more of the words
+  `tar', `gzip', `bzip2' or `compress' on the command line.  The
+  result will be a (compressed) tar file(s) in the `releases'
+  directory.  The README file is updated to contain the release date
+  and version number.
+
+* To create a tarball of all the files which are part of HDF5 go to
+  the top-level directory and type:
+
+      tar cvf foo.tar `grep '^\.' MANIFEST |unexpand |cut -f1`