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HDF Newsletter 46

October 27, 1999

CONTENTS

  • Fortran 90 API for HDF5-1.2.0
  • HCR Tools Release 3.0v1

    • Fortran 90 API (prototype) for HDF5-1.2.0

     A prototype of the HDF5 Fortran 90 API is now available from the NCSA FTP server in the directory: 
      ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF/HDF5/current/fortran/
    This prototype was tested on the following platforms: 
      SunOS 5.6 and 5.7
  OSF1 V4.0
  IRIX64 6.5 (64bit)
    In order to install it, you must have HDF5-1.2.0 installed and the GZIP library. For your convenience, we provide on the NCSA ftp server the compiled GZIP libraries that were used to test HDF5-1.2.0: 
      ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF/gzip/

    HCR Tools Release 3.0v1

    HDF Configuration Record (HCR) Tools Release 3.0v1 is freely available for public access. HCR is a tools suite that provides an easy interface to create, modify and access HDF-EOS and HDF files. This release has been upgraded to work with the latest official releases of the HDF-EOS library (2.4v1.00) and HDF library (v4.1r3).

    The differences between Version 3.0v1 and prior versions are that HDF objects have been added, including GR, SDS, Palette, Vdata, Vgroup and Annotation objects. Similar to HDF-EOS files, you can create HDF objects in ODL format and use the tools (only hcr2hdf and hdf2hcr currently) to convert to HDF files or vice versa. For HDF-EOS files, there are four tools available (hcr2hdf, hdf2hcr, hcrhdfdiff, hcr_edit).

    It has been ported to several platforms. The following compiled HCR executable files in binary form are provided: 

      hcr_solaris2.6.tar.gz      -- For Sun Solaris2.6(SunOS 5.6).
  hcr_irix6.5.tar.gz         -- For SGI IRIX(or IRIX64) 6.5.  It was
                                compiled in n32 object mode.
  hcr_hpux10.2.tar.gz        -- For HP-UX 10.20.
  hcr_dec.tar.gz             -- For DEC OSF1 v4.0.
    The software can be retrieved via anonymous ftp at the following URL: 
       ftp://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/pub/HCR/Software/
    To install, download one of them, uncompress the file ("gunzip filename.gz", "tar -xf filename.tar") and display the README file for installation instructions.