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      HDF5 Application Developer's Guide
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<h1>HDF5 Application Developer's Guide</h1>
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        These documents provide information of particular interest to 
        developers of applications that employ the HDF5 library.
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          Supported Configutation</a>
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          HDF5 Image and</a>
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          <a href="ADGuide/ImageSpec.html">Palette Specification</a>
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          of images and palettes in HDF5 applications
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           Mapping HDF4 Objects</a>
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           <a href="ADGuide/H4toH5Mapping.pdf">to HDF5 Objects</a>
        </td><td></td><td valign=top>Guidelines for translating
           HDF4 file objects into valid HDF5 file objects&nbsp;&nbsp;
           <i>(PDF format only)</i>
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      <tr><td valign=top width=35%><a href="http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/doc_resource/H5Fill_Values.html" target="External">
          Fill Value and Space</a>
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          <a href="http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/doc_resource/H5Fill_Values.html" target="External">Allocation Issues</a>
	</td><td></td><td valign=top>A summary of HDF5 fill value and storage allocation issues&nbsp;&nbsp;
          <em>(external link)</em>
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          Fill Value and Space</a>
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          <a href="http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/doc_resource/H5Fill_Behavior.html" target="External">Allocation Behavior</a>
	</td><td></td><td valign=top>A table summarizing of the behavioral interactions 
	   of HDF5 fill value and storage allocation settings&nbsp;&nbsp;
          <em>(external link)</em>
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      <tr><td valign=top width=35%><a href="http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/doc_resource/SZIP/index.html" target="External">
          SZIP Compression</a>
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	  <a href="http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/doc_resource/SZIP/index.html" target="External">
          in HDF5</a>
	</td><td></td><td valign=top>A description of SZIP compression in HDF5, 
	  <code>H5Pset_szip</code>, terms of use and copyright notice,
	  and references&nbsp;&nbsp;
          <em>(external link)</em>
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      <tr><td valign=top width=35%><a href="http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/doc_resource/H5Shuffle_Perf.pdf" target="External">
          Shuffle Performance</a>
	</td><td></td><td valign=top>An analysis of bzip and gzip compression 
	  performance in HDF5 with and without the shuffle filter, 
	  <code>H5Pset_shuffle</code>&nbsp;&nbsp;
          <em>(external link)</em>
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          Generic Properties</a>
	</td><td></td><td valign=top>An overview of and the motivation for 
	  the implementation and use of generic properties in HDF5&nbsp;&nbsp;
          <em>(external link)</em>
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      <tr><td valign=top width=35%><a href="http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/doc_resource/H5Checksum/ChecksumProposal.htm" target="External">
          Error-detecting Codes</a>
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          <a href="http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/doc_resource/H5Checksum/ChecksumProposal.htm" target="External">
          for HDF5</a>
	</td><td></td><td valign=top>A discussion of error-detection codes, 
	  e.g., checksums, in HDF5&nbsp;&nbsp;
          <em>(external link)</em>
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      <tr><td valign=top width=35%><a href="http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/doc_resource/H5Checksum/EDC_spec.htm" target="External">
          Fletcher32 Checksu</a>
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          Design and Spec</a>
	</td><td></td><td valign=top>Design, API function specification, and test  
          for the Fletcher32 checksum implementation in HDF5&nbsp;&nbsp;
          <em>(external link)</em>
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      of this document.  Both files are located at the top level of the
      HDF5 source code tree and are duplicated here for your reference:
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          A release-by-release history of the HDF5 library
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