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Chapter 1

Introduction to HDF


1.1 Chapter Overview

This chapter provides a general description of HDF including its native object structures, application programming interface, and accompanying command-line utilities. It also provides a short discussion of HDF's original purpose and philosophy, and concludes with a list of the platforms that HDF has been ported to.



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HDF User's Guide - 05/19/99, NCSA HDF Development Group.