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# Created Date: 2011/5/3
+# Comment added to address HDFFV-8270:
+# As I understand it, the purpose of this file is to remove extraneous messages
+# that appear in stdout and stderr on some machines that have been tested outside
+# of the HDF Group realm. The purpose of this script is to filter those
+# extraneous messages from stdout and stderr so that when the output files are
+# compared to the expected output, the extra messages will not cause failures in
+# the tests. The system messages in the comments below are out of date, meaning
+# I suppose that while the script code to filter messages on the system was
+# correct correct when last used, the output in the comments doesn't match the
+# script code that follows. I don't currently have access to any of these
+# systems to see the current output and the effect of the script code. If using
+# this file in the future, please update the comments to match the scripts in use.
+# Larry Knox 2017/3/15
+
+
# Some systems will dump some messages to stdout for various reasons.
# Remove them from the stdout result file.
# $1 is the file name of the file to be filtered.