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From: ragg0270@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Richard Alan Gerber)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: HDF and scientific data sets
Summary: Anyone interested in NCSA scientific data sets?
Keywords: science, NCSA
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Date: 7 Nov 90 15:36:24 GMT
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(I don't think this got out the first time. If this is a repeat to you,
a thousand pardons.)

Hi all,

I have started trying to port the NCSA HDF library routines to the Amiga.
For those of you who don't know (and who care) HDF is a file format for storing
scientific data sets and images. The purpose of the format is to allow
easy exchange of scientific data in a consistent format. The data is then
portable across different machine types (as I understand it). It is
currently available for for various machines, including Cray, Silicon
Graphics, Alliant, Sun, VAX, Macintosh, and IBM PC.

The code is pretty much generic C and I haven't had to change much of it.
There are a few bugs (well, one that I know of) that have shown up that
I have not been able to resolve. This is probably due to my meager
knowledge of C in general and the SAS compiler in particular.

If you are interested in this, please reply to gerber@rigel.astro.uiuc.edu.
I will gladly make the source available and just as eagerly accept any
help. (The source is available from NCSA anyway, but not with the few
(but time consuming) changes I had to make to get it to compile
with SAS C 5.10  :-)

Also, I have volunteered to look into the possibility of setting up a
science mailing list for the Amiga. But I really don't know what is 
involved. If anyone has participated in or run such a mailing list,
let me know.

Thanks,

Richard Gerber
Physics Graduate Student
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
gerber@rigel.astro.uiuc.edu