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Diffstat (limited to 'tools/h5dump/h5dump.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/h5dump/h5dump.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/tools/h5dump/h5dump.c b/tools/h5dump/h5dump.c index 5b5df95..4bd388a 100644 --- a/tools/h5dump/h5dump.c +++ b/tools/h5dump/h5dump.c @@ -598,7 +598,10 @@ usage(const char *prog) fprintf(stdout, " -l P, --soft-link=P Print the value(s) of the specified soft link\n"); fprintf(stdout, " -o F, --output=F Output raw data into file F\n"); fprintf(stdout, " -b F Output raw data into file F in binary form (use with -d)\n"); - fprintf(stdout, " -F T Form of binary output (T can be NA for native type, DI for the disk file type, LI or BI for pre-existing little or big endian types)\n"); + fprintf(stdout, " -F T Form of binary output (T can be NA for native type,\n"); + fprintf(stdout, " DI for the disk file type, LE or BE for pre-existing little or big endian types)\n"); + fprintf(stdout, " E.g., to dump a dataset called 'integer' in a file called `test1.h5', use\n"); + fprintf(stdout, " h5dump -b bin.out -F LE -d integer test1.h5\n"); fprintf(stdout, " -t P, --datatype=P Print the specified named data type\n"); fprintf(stdout, " -w N, --width=N Set the number of columns of output\n"); fprintf(stdout, " -x, --xml Output in XML using Schema\n"); @@ -2725,9 +2728,9 @@ set_binary_form(const char *form) bform = 0; else if (strcmp(form,"DI")==0) /* file type form */ bform = 1; - else if (strcmp(form,"LI")==0) /* convert to little endian */ + else if (strcmp(form,"LE")==0) /* convert to little endian */ bform = 2; - else if (strcmp(form,"BI")==0) /* convert to big endian */ + else if (strcmp(form,"BE")==0) /* convert to big endian */ bform = 3; |