-------------------------------------------------------------------------- To subscribe/unsubscribe to the hdfnews mailing list, please send your request to ncsalist@ncsa.uiuc.edu with the appropriate command (e.g. subscribe hdfnews, unsubscribe hdfnews, help) in the *body* of the message. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Newsletter #40 February 17, 1999 CONTENTS ******************************* HDF5 Beta Tools Release * Visit the HDF home page * * for up-to-date information * * on HDF: * * http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/ * ******************************* - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - HDF5 Beta Tools Release ======================= Pre-compiled versions of the HDF5 (beta) tools are now available for the following platforms: Digitial Unix 4.0 HP-UX 10.20 Irix 6.5 Linux 2.2.1 Solaris 2.5 The following binary utilities are included for each of the platforms above: h5dump - Enables the user to examine the contents of an HDF5 file and dump those contents to an ASCII file. h5toh4 - Converts an HDF5 file into an HDF4 file. h5ls - Lists selected information about file objects in the specified format. h5repart - Repartitions a file or family of files. h5import - Creates an HDF5 file with a 1-D dataset of uint8. h5debug - Debugs an existing HDF5 file at a low level. Information on h5dump, h5toh4, h5ls, and h5repart is included in the Tools.html, which is provided with the binaries. You can download this release from: ftp://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/pub/dist/HDF5/hdf5-tools-beta/ For more information regarding HDF5, take a look at the HDF5 home page: http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/ -------------------------------------------------------------- For questions regarding these or other HDF issues, contact: hdfhelp@ncsa.uiuc.edu