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Re: will RSI support HDF5? [message #26623 is a reply to message #26525] Mon, 10 September 2001 10:06 Go to previous message
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In article <3B9CDE0F.416428EB@fz-juelich.de>, Reimar Bauer <r.bauer@fz-juelich.de> writes:
|> Jason Li wrote:
|> > Does anyone has inside scoop on RSI's support of the new HDF5?
|> Did you know something of the compatibility of HDF5 to HDF4 and HDF3.
|> If it's not compatibel then I believe it's no chance to get it
|> supported.


HDF5 is completely, totally and utterly different from HDF4. A whole
different ball of wax. The (NASA funded) project I work for uses HDF5
and IDL so we are going to need this, or we will have to abandon IDL.
Or write our own interface, of course, which is perfectly doable.

Hugh

P.S. R (www.r-project.org) already has HDF5 support, see
www.met.ed.ac.uk/~hcp/idletc.html



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