Removed old "Developer Docs" section to move to "HDF5 Tech Notes."
Datatypes.html: Minor edits.
Fixed confusing references to "simple datatypes."
Attributes.html
H5Aiterate: Changed function type to herr_t.
All HDF5 User's Guide files
Integrated Palettes.html.
Integrated MountingFiles.html.
Cleaned up page footers.
Made <title>---</title> entries somewhat more consistent.
Files.html
Errors.html
Datasets.html
Fixed minor formatting errors.
Palettes.html
MountingFiles.html
These new sections were added to the HDF5 User's Guide.
Environment.html
Deleted duplicate text.
been checked into "HDF5 Development" branch.
General
=======
Various "copy edit" types of repairs.
Revisions to document cross-linking.
Added structural links tying all docs together (banners
at top and bottom of documents, similar to Reference Manual
banners of the Beta release).
Set background color to white in all documents.
NCSAfooterlogo.gif
hdf2.jpg
New image files to make the documents more self-contained
(i.e., to prevent loading images from NCSA and HDF home servers).
index.html
Redesigned to isolate links external to the installation
in a single location.
Intro to HDF5
=============
H5.intro.html
Fixed banner linking Intro to other docs.
Set all URLs to be relative within the distribution; nothing
points back to the HDF server.
Updates to "Limits of the Current Release" and "Changes in
the Current Release."
HDF5 User's Guide
=================
Changed several User Guide section titles such that all
sections that are primarily about a particular interface
are now titled in the format "The xxxxx Interface (H5x)".
H5.user.html
Commented out links to developer docs since they are marked
in MANIFEST as not being for distribution in the release.
Removed 2nd and 3rd indices from page.
Changed "freeform" lists of sections (TOCs) to aligned tables.
Datatypes.html
Removed the sentence "I'm deferring definition until later
since they're probably not as important as the other data
types." from Section 3.3, "Properties of Date and Time
Atomic Types."
Added info regarding 'char' versus 'string' datatypes. Added
as Section 3.7, "Character and String Datatype Issues."
References.html
Commented out substantial material (at end of document) from
References planning document that is not appropriate for
the User Guide but that is worth keeping around.
Groups.html
Final edits from elimination of "current working group."
HDF5 Reference Manual
=====================
Removed "Draft" from the <title>__</title> lines.
RM_H5Front.html
Removed 2nd and 3rd indices from page.
Changed "freeform" lists of sections (TOCs) to aligned tables.
RM_H5F.html
RM_H5P.html
Add file mounting information.
A little editorial cleanup.
Added link to Ragged.html, Ragged Arrays.
Added link to Environment.html, Environmental Variables and
Configuration Parameters.
Added link to Copyright.html.
Ragged.html
Added "Use at your own risk" notice.
Environment.html
New file for environmental variables and configuration parameters.
Datatypes.html
Added the following datatypes:
H5T_NATIVE_HSIZE
H5T_NATIVE_HSSIZE
H5T_NATIVE_HERR
H5T_NATIVE_HBOOL
Section 8, "Data Conversions"
Added named link tag to catch hyperlink from RM.
Revised "Note:" to emphasize limited inate data-conversion capability.
Copyright.html
New file.
Copyright statement, linked into User's Guide and Reference Manual.
Glossary.html
Unlinked for Beta.
General
Changed email link at bottom of "user guide level documents"
(as contrasted with "developer guide level documents"
listed on the lower half of the User's Guide front page)
to HDF Help Desk, hdfhelp@ncsa.uiuc.edu.
Changed the following function names:
From: To:
H5version H5get_libversion
H5vers_check H5check_version
H5Anum_attrs H5Aget_num_attrs
H5Fget_create_template() H5Fget_create_plist()
H5Fget_access_template() H5Fget_access_plist()
H5Gstat H5Gget_stat
H5Sextent_npoints H5Sget_simple_extent_npoints
H5Sextent_ndims H5Sget_simple_extent_ndims
H5Sextent_dims H5Sget_simple_extent_dims
H5Sget_class H5Sget_simple_extent_type
H5Sselect_npoints H5Sget_select_npoints
