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| author | Frank Baker <fbaker@hdfgroup.org> | 2000-12-22 20:47:59 (GMT) |
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| committer | Frank Baker <fbaker@hdfgroup.org> | 2000-12-22 20:47:59 (GMT) |
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[svn-r3196]
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Adding Tutorial to development branch (R 1.4)
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diff --git a/doc/html/Tutor/api.html b/doc/html/Tutor/api.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3ed0a84 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/html/Tutor/api.html @@ -0,0 +1,140 @@ +<HTML><HEAD> +<TITLE>The HDF5 API +</TITLE> +</HEAD> + +<body bgcolor="#ffffff"> + +<!-- BEGIN MAIN BODY --> + +<A HREF="http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/"><img border=0 +src="http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Images/NCSAhome/footerlogo.gif" +width=78 height=27 alt="NCSA"><P></A> + + [ <A HREF="title.html"><I>HDF5 Tutorial Top</I></A> ] +<H1> +<BIG><BIG><BIG><FONT COLOR="#c101cd">The HDF5 API</FONT> +</BIG></BIG></BIG></H1> + + +<hr noshade size=1> + +<BODY> +<P> +The HDF5 library provides several interfaces, and is currently implemented in +C. The APIs provide routines for accessing HDF5 files and creating and +manipulating HDF5 objects. All C routines in the HDF5 library begin with +a prefix of the form H5*, where * is a single letter indicating the object on +which the operation is to be performed. The APIs are listed below: +<P> +<table width="65%" border="2" cellpadding="4"> + <tr bgcolor="#FFCC99" bordercolor="#FFFFFF"> + <td width="11%"> + <div align="center"><b>API </b></div> + </td> + <td width="89%"> + <div align="left"><b>DESCRIPTION</b> </div> + </td> + </tr> + <tr bordercolor="#FFFFFF"> + <td width="11%" bgcolor="#99CCCC"> + <div align="center"><b>H5</b></div> + </td> + <td width="89%">Library Functions: the general-purpose H5 functions.</td> + </tr> + <tr bordercolor="#FFFFFF"> + <td width="11%" bgcolor="#99CCCC"> + <div align="center"><b>H5A</b></div> + </td> + <td width="89%">Annotation Interface: attribute access and manipulating routines.</td> + </tr> + <tr bordercolor="#FFFFFF"> + <td width="11%" bgcolor="#99CCCC"> + <div align="center"><b>H5D</b></div> + </td> + <td width="89%">Dataset Interface: dataset access and manipulating routines. + </td> + </tr> + <tr bordercolor="#FFFFFF"> + <td width="11%" bgcolor="#99CCCC"> + <div align="center"><b>H5E</b></div> + </td> + <td width="89%">Error Interface: error handling routines.</td> + </tr> + <tr bordercolor="#FFFFFF"> + <td width="11%" bgcolor="#99CCCC"> + <div align="center"><b>H5F</b></div> + </td> + <td width="89%">File Interface: file access routines.</td> + </tr> + <tr bordercolor="#FFFFFF"> + <td width="11%" bgcolor="#99CCCC"> + <div align="center"><b>H5G</b></div> + </td> + <td width="89%">Group Interface: group creating and operating routines.</td> + </tr> + <tr bordercolor="#FFFFFF"> + <td width="11%" bgcolor="#99CCCC"> + <div align="center"><b>H5I</b></div> + </td> + <td width="89%">Identifier Interface: identifier routines.</td> + </tr> + <tr bordercolor="#FFFFFF"> + <td width="11%" bgcolor="#99CCCC"> + <div align="center"><b>H5P</b></div> + </td> + <td width="89%">Property List Interface: object property list manipulating + routines.</td> + </tr> + <tr bordercolor="#FFFFFF"> + <td width="11%" bgcolor="#99CCCC"> + <div align="center"><b>H5R</b></div> + </td> + <td width="89%">Reference Interface: reference routines.</td> + </tr> + <tr bordercolor="#FFFFFF"> + <td width="11%" bgcolor="#99CCCC"> + <div align="center"><b>H5S</b></div> + </td> + <td width="89%">Dataspace Interface: routines for defining dataspaces.</td> + </tr> + <tr bordercolor="#FFFFFF"> + <td width="11%" bgcolor="#99CCCC"> + <div align="center"><b>H5T</b></div> + </td> + <td width="89%">Data type Interface: routines for creating and manipulating + the data type of dataset elements.</td> + </tr> + <tr bordercolor="#FFFFFF"> + <td width="11%" bgcolor="#99CCCC"> + <div align="center"><b>H5Z</b></div> + </td> + <td width="89%">Compression Interface: compression routine(s).</td> + </tr> +</table> + +<!-- BEGIN FOOTER INFO --> + +<P><hr noshade size=1> +<font face="arial,helvetica" size="-1"> + <a href="http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/"><img border=0 + src="http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Images/NCSAhome/footerlogo.gif" + width=78 height=27 alt="NCSA"><br> + The National Center for Supercomputing Applications</A><br> + <a href="http://www.uiuc.edu/">University of Illinois + at Urbana-Champaign</a><br> + <br> +<!-- <A HREF="helpdesk.mail.html"> --> +<A HREF="mailto:hdfhelp@ncsa.uiuc.edu"> +hdfhelp@ncsa.uiuc.edu</A> +<BR> <H6>Last Modified: July 30, 1999</H6><BR> +<!-- modified by Barbara Jones - bljones@ncsa.uiuc.edu --> +</FONT> +<BR> +<!-- <A HREF="mailto:hdfhelp@ncsa.uiuc.edu"> --> + +</BODY> +</HTML> + + + |