Readme about the verify tool ============================ The verify tool was built with HDF4.2r4 (using the --disable-netcdf configuration option), HDF5 1.8.2, netCDF-4.0 and HDF-EOS2 (version 2.15). It verifies the correctness of a file that has been converted from HDF-EOS2 to netCDF-4. A user can run the command below to verify the conversion: ./verify -p -v foo.hdf foo.nc Please note that this HDF-EOS2/netCDF-4 verifier is a beta-level convenience tool that may give false alarms and may miss wrong conversions. False alarms can be introduced by either a netCDF-4 library problem or excessive strictness of the HDF-EOS2/netCDF-4 verifier. We found one problem when we used netCDF-4.0.0 and the problem disappeared after moving to netCDF-4.0.1-beta2. The verifier traverses each HDF4 object HDF-EOS2 can access. If some objects are invisible by the HDF-EOS2 library, those objects are not verified.