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How does the integration of netCDF with HDF affect application programmers?

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How does the integration of netCDF with HDF affect application programmers?

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The mfhdf library was designed to be completely transparent to the programmer. HDF supports a “multi-file” SDS interface and the complete netCDF interface as defined by Unidata netCDF Release 2.3.2. Using either interface, you are able to read XDR-based netCDF files, HDF-based netCDF files and pre-HDF4.x HDF files. The library determines what type of file is being accessed and handles it appropriately. Any of the above types of files may be modified. However, the library will only create new files based on HDF (you can’t create new XDR-based netCDF files).