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Hi Russ >>>However, there are HDF5 files that netCDF-4 will not open and read, by >>>design. See the answer to the FAQ How can I convert HDF5 files into >>>netCDF-4 files?, which lists some HDF5 features netCDF-4 >>>>intentionally >>>does not support yes ! that was my impression debugging the code some years ago, netCDF was * intentionally * returning a failure on a pure HDF5 file glad you pointed that document, I had missed that ---------------------- Pedro Vicente pedro.vicente@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://twitter.com/_pedro__vicente http://www.space-research.org/ ----- Original Message ----- From: Russ Rew To: Ed Hartnett Cc: John Shalf ; cf-metadata@xxxxxxxxxxxx ; Discussion forum for the NeXus data format ; HDF Users Discussion List ; Richard.E.Ullman@xxxxxxxx ; Marinelli, Daniel J. (GSFC-5810) ; dmh@xxxxxxxx ; netcdfgroup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ; Miller, Mark C. Sent: Friday, April 22, 2016 11:12 AM Subject: Re: [Nexus] [netcdfgroup] [Hdf-forum] Detecting netCDF versus HDF5 -- PROPOSED SOLUTIONS --REQUEST FOR COMMENTS On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 1:56 PM, Ed Hartnett <edwardjameshartnett@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: ... The ability of netCDF-4 to open HDF5 files which were written by HDF5 is an important feature. It means that users can use tools that were written for netCDF on their existing HDF5 files. However, there are HDF5 files that netCDF-4 will not open and read, by design. See the answer to the FAQ How can I convert HDF5 files into netCDF-4 files?, which lists some HDF5 features netCDF-4 intentionally does not support, primarily because these specific features seemed to be of dubious utility for little benefit. NetCDF-4 supports a simpler data model than HDF5, and that was meant to be a feature, not a bug. --Russ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ NeXus mailing list NeXus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.nexusformat.org/mailman/listinfo/nexus
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