Interoperability: Any program may use either HDF4 or 5 or both:

Single Combined HDF Library

dataset1

dataset2

Stored as

HDF4 Objects

image1

image2

Stored as

HDF5 Objects

HDF4 file

HDF5 file

HDF 4 Library

HDF 5 Library

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