HDF5 HL_NPOESS version 1.1.0 released on Sun May 30 17:49:36 CDT 2010
This document describes HDF5 High-Level NPOESS library version 1.0.0 (prototype)

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CONTENTS

- New Features
- Platforms Tested

New Features
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Fortran wrappers were introduced in version 1.1.0
Functions introduced  in version 1.0.0. 

  H5LRget_region_info - Gets information about the data set pointed to by a
  region reference.

  H5LRread_region - Reads raw data pointed by a region reference 
  to an application buffer.

  H5LRcreate_region_references - Creates an array of region references using an 
  array of paths to datasets in a file and an array of the corresponding
  hyperslab descriptions.

  H5LRmake_dataset - Creates a dataset and writes data associated with a list of
  region references to it.

  H5LRcopy_region - Copies data from a region specified by a reference to a 
  region in a destination dataset.

  H5LRcopy_references - Copies data from the specified dataset to a new 
  location and create a reference to it.

  H5LRcreate_ref_to_all - Creates a dataset with the region references to all 
  datasets or objects recursively located under a specified group in a file.

  H5LTread_region - Reads selected data to an appication buffer

  H5LTcopy_region - Copies data from a specified region in a source dataset to a
  specified region in a destination dataset.

  H5LTread_quality_flag - Retrieves the values of quality flags for each 
  element to the application provided buffer.


Platforms Tested
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AIX 6.1                           IBM XL C/C++ for AIX, V10.1
                                  IBM XL Fortran for AIX, V12.1
Linux (jam) 2.6.18 (i686)         gcc (GCC) 4.1.2
                                  gfortran 4.4.2
Linux (amani) 2.6.18 (x86_64)     gcc (GCC) 4.4.4
                                  gfortran 4.4.4
Mac OSX 10.6                      gccx (GCC) 4.2.1
                                  gfortran 4.5.0

                                  
Known Problems
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N/A