HDF5 documents and links 
Introduction to HDF5 
HDF5 User's Guide 
HDF5 Reference Manual 

HDF5 Application Developer's Guide

These documents provide information of particular interest to developers of applications that employ the HDF5 library.

 
 
HDF5 Library Changes
    from Release to Release
A summary of changes in the HDF5 library
 
Supported Configutation
    Features Summary
A summary of configuration features supported in this release    (external link)
 
HDF5 Image and
    Palette Specification *
A specification for the implementation of images and palettes in HDF5 applications
 
Mapping HDF4 Objects
    to HDF5 Objects *
Guidelines for translating HDF4 file objects into valid HDF5 file objects    (PDF format only)
 
* These two documents were still under revision at the time of Release 1.4.1. Updated versions will be posted on the HDF5 documents web site (http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/doc/) when they become available.



HDF5 documents and links 
Introduction to HDF5 
HDF5 Reference Manual 
HDF5 User's Guide 

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Last modified: 19 July 2001
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Describes HDF5 Release 1.4.2, July 2001