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      HDF5 User's Guide
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   <a href="H5.intro.html">Introduction to HDF5</a>&nbsp;<br>
   <a href="RM_H5Front.html">HDF5 Reference Manual</a>&nbsp;<br>
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    <center><h1>A User's Guide for HDF5</h1></center>

    <p>The following documents form a loosely organized user's guide
      to the HDF5 library.
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<tr><td valign=top><a href="Files.html">HDF5 Files</a>
	</td><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
        <td valign=top>A guide to the <strong>H5F</strong> interface.
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      <tr><td valign=top><a href="Datasets.html">Datasets</a>
	</td><td></td><td valign=top>A guide to the <strong>H5D</strong> 
          interface.
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      <tr><td valign=top><a href="Datatypes.html">Datatypes</a>
	</td><td></td><td valign=top>A guide to the <strong>H5T</strong> 
          interface.
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      <tr><td valign=top><a href="Dataspaces.html">Dataspaces</a>
	</td><td></td><td valign=top>A guide to the <strong>H5S</strong> 
          interface.
        </td></tr>
      <tr><td valign=top><a href="Groups.html">Groups</a>
	</td><td></td><td valign=top>A guide to the <strong>H5G</strong> 
          interface.
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      <tr><td valign=top><a href="References.html">References and
          Identifiers</a>
	</td><td></td><td valign=top>A guide to the <strong>H5R</strong> 
          and <strong>H5I</strong> interfaces.
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      <tr><td valign=top><a href="Attributes.html">Attributes</a>
	</td><td></td><td valign=top>A guide to the <strong>H5A</strong> 
          interface.
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      <tr><td valign=top><a href="Properties.html">Property Lists</a>
	</td><td></td><td valign=top>A guide to the <strong>H5P</strong> 
          interface.
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      <tr><td valign=top><a href="Errors.html">Error Handling</a>
	</td><td></td><td valign=top>A guide to the <strong>H5E</strong> 
          interface.
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      <tr><td valign=top><a href="Filters.html">Filters</a>
	</td><td></td><td valign=top>A guide to the <strong>H5Z</strong> 
          interface.
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      <tr><td valign=top><a href="Caching.html">Caching</a>
	</td><td></td><td valign=top>A guide for meta and raw data caching.
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      <tr><td valign=top><a href="Chunking.html">Dataset Chunking</a>
	</td><td></td><td valign=top>A guide to the issues and pitfalls 
          of dataset chunking.
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      <tr><td valign=top><a href="MountingFiles.html">Mounting Files</a>
	</td><td></td><td valign=top>A guide to mounting files containing 
          external HDF5 datasets.
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      <tr><td valign=top><a href="Performance.html">Performance</a>
	</td><td></td><td valign=top>A guide to performance issues and 
          analysis tools.
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      <tr><td valign=top><a href="Debugging.html">Debugging</a>
	</td><td></td><td valign=top>A guide to debugging HDF5 API calls.
        </td></tr>
      <tr><td valign=top><a href="Environment.html">Environment Variables 
          and</a>
          <br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="Environment.html">Configuration 
          Parameters</a>
	</td><td></td><td valign=top>A list of HDF5 environment variables
          and configuration <br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;parameters.
        </td></tr>
      <tr><td valign=top><a href="ddl.html">DDL for HDF5</a>
	</td><td></td><td valign=top>A DDL in BNF for HDF5.
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    <p>The following documents form a loosely organized developer's guide to
      aspects of the HDF5 library. (Some of the following documents
      may be rather out of date as they were working papers for design
      goals.)

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      <li><a href="Version.html">Version Numbers</a> -
	A description of HDF5 version numbers.
      <li><a href="IOPipe.html">I/O Pipeline</a> -
	A description of the raw data I/O pipeline.
      <li><a href="ExternalFiles.html">Working with External Files</a> -
	A guide to the use of multiple files with HDF5.
      <li><a href="Big.html">Large Datasets</a> -
	A guide to accessing large datasets on small computers.
      <li><a href="MemoryManagement.html">Memory Management</a> -
	A white	paper about memory management issues in HDF5.
      <li><a href="Coding.html">Coding Style</a> -
	A white paper about coding style in the HDF5 library code.
      <li><a href="compat.html">HDF4/HDF5 Compatibility</a> -
	A white paper about compatibility issues between HDF4 and HDF5.
      <li><a href="study.html">Chunking Performance Study</a> -
	A white paper describing the HDF5 chunking performance.
    </ul>
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<tr><td valign=top align=left>
   <a href="H5.intro.html">Introduction to HDF5</a>&nbsp;<br>
   <a href="RM_H5Front.html">HDF5 Reference Manual</a>&nbsp;<br>
   <a href="index.html">Other HDF5 documents and links</a>&nbsp;<br>
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<a href="mailto:hdfhelp@ncsa.uiuc.edu">HDF Help Desk</a>
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Last modified:  19 January 2001
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Describes HDF5 Release 1.4.2, July 2001


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