HDF5 documents and links 
Introduction to HDF5 
HDF5 Reference Manual 
HDF5 User's Guide for Release 1.6 
And in this document, the HDF5 User's Guide from Release 1.4.5:    
Files   Datasets   Datatypes   Dataspaces   Groups  
References   Attributes   Property Lists   Error Handling  
Filters   Caching   Chunking   Mounting Files  
Performance   Debugging   Environment   DDL  

A User's Guide for HDF5
Release 1.4.5

This document is the HDF5 User's Guide from HDF5 Release 1.4.5. Since a new HDF5 User's Guide is under development, this version has not been updated for Release 1.6.0.

The following documents form a loosely organized user's guide to the HDF5 library.

HDF5 Files      A guide to the H5F interface.
Datasets A guide to the H5D interface.
Datatypes A guide to the H5T interface.
Dataspaces A guide to the H5S interface.
Groups A guide to the H5G interface.
References and Identifiers A guide to the H5R and H5I interfaces.
Attributes A guide to the H5A interface.
Property Lists A guide to the H5P interface.
Error Handling A guide to the H5E interface.
Filters A guide to the H5Z interface.
Caching A guide for meta and raw data caching.
Dataset Chunking A guide to the issues and pitfalls of dataset chunking.
Mounting Files A guide to mounting files containing external HDF5 datasets.
Performance A guide to performance issues and analysis tools.
Debugging A guide to debugging HDF5 API calls.
Environment Variables and
   Configuration Parameters
A list of HDF5 environment variables and configuration
   parameters.
DDL for HDF5 A DDL in BNF for HDF5.


HDF5 documents and links 
Introduction to HDF5 
HDF5 Reference Manual 
HDF5 User's Guide for Release 1.6 
And in this document, the HDF5 User's Guide from Release 1.4.5:    
Files   Datasets   Datatypes   Dataspaces   Groups  
References   Attributes   Property Lists   Error Handling  
Filters   Caching   Chunking   Mounting Files  
Performance   Debugging   Environment   DDL  

HDF Help Desk
Describes HDF5 Release 1.4.5, February 2003
Last modified: 3 July 2003
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