This document is the HDF5 User's Guide from HDF5 Release 1.4.5. Since a new HDF5 User's Guide is under development, this version has not been updated for Release 1.6.0.
The following documents form a loosely organized user's guide to the HDF5 library.
| HDF5 Files | A guide to the H5F interface. | |
| Datasets | A guide to the H5D interface. | |
| Datatypes | A guide to the H5T interface. | |
| Dataspaces | A guide to the H5S interface. | |
| Groups | A guide to the H5G interface. | |
| References and Identifiers | A guide to the H5R and H5I interfaces. | |
| Attributes | A guide to the H5A interface. | |
| Property Lists | A guide to the H5P interface. | |
| Error Handling | A guide to the H5E interface. | |
| Filters | A guide to the H5Z interface. | |
| Caching | A guide for meta and raw data caching. | |
| Dataset Chunking | A guide to the issues and pitfalls of dataset chunking. | |
| Mounting Files | A guide to mounting files containing external HDF5 datasets. | |
| Performance | A guide to performance issues and analysis tools. | |
| Debugging | A guide to debugging HDF5 API calls. | |
| Environment Variables
and
Configuration Parameters | A list of HDF5 environment variables
and configuration parameters. | |
| DDL for HDF5 | A DDL in BNF for HDF5. |
|
HDF Help Desk
Describes HDF5 Release 1.4.5, February 2003 Last modified: 3 July 2003 | Copyright |