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authorMuQun Yang <ymuqun@hdfgroup.org>2001-02-19 20:14:14 (GMT)
committerMuQun Yang <ymuqun@hdfgroup.org>2001-02-19 20:14:14 (GMT)
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[svn-r3455]
Purpose: Fix a comment about h4toh5 datatype conversion when hdf4 datatype is DFNT_CHAR8. Description: Solution: Platforms tested:
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@@ -105,13 +105,13 @@ h4toh5 Utility
* For the data of an HDF4 SDS, image, and palette, if the data is
declared 'DFNT_CHAR8' it will be assumed to be integer and
- will be an H5T_INTEGER type.
+ will be an H5T_STD_I8E under H5T_INTEGER class.
* For attributes of any HDF4 object, data of type 'DFNT_CHAR8'
- will be converted to an HDF5 'H5T_STRING' type.
+ will be converted to an HDF5 string under HDF5 'H5T_STRING' class.
* For an HDF4 Vdata, it is difficult to determine whether data
of type 'DFNT_CHAR8' is intended to be bytes or characters.
The h4toh5 utility will consider them to be C characters, and
- will convert them to an HDF5 'H5T_STRING' type.
+ will convert them to an HDF5 string under HDF5 'H5T_STRING' class.
3. Compression, Chunking and External Storage