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@@ -326,10 +326,9 @@ These tools enable the user to examine HDF5 files interactively.
<p>
The <code>-h</code> option causes the following
syntax summary to be displayed:<br>
- <dir><code>
- h5toh4 file.h5 file.hdf<br>
- h5toh4 file.h5<br>
- h5toh4 -m file1.h5 file2.h5 ...<br></code></dir>
+ <pre> h5toh4 file.h5 file.hdf
+ h5toh4 file.h5
+ h5toh4 -m file1.h5 file2.h5 ...</pre>
<p>
@@ -358,6 +357,11 @@ These tools enable the user to examine HDF5 files interactively.
be fixed or extendable. The members of the
compound datatype are constrained to be no more
than rank 4.
+ <li>HDF5 dataset objects of single dimension and fixed length string
+ datatype are converted into HDF4 Vdata objects. The HDF4 Vdata is a
+ single field whose order is the length of the HDF5 string type. The
+ number of records of the Vdata is the length of the single dimension
+ which may be fixed or extendable.
</ul>
Other objects are not converted and are not recorded
@@ -365,7 +369,7 @@ These tools enable the user to examine HDF5 files interactively.
<p>
Attributes associated with any of the supported HDF5
objects are carried over to the HDF4 objects.
- Attributes may be of integer or floating point datatype
+ Attributes may be of integer, floating point, or fixed length string datatype
and they may have up to 32 fixed dimensions.
<p>
All datatypes are converted to big-endian.
@@ -432,7 +436,7 @@ Tools&nbsp;&nbsp;
<a href="mailto:hdfhelp@ncsa.uiuc.edu">HDF Help Desk</a>
<br>
-Last modified: 30 October 1998
+Last modified: 29 April 1999
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