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HDF5 User's Guide
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I. The Broad View
   Data Model &
      File Structure
   HDF5 Library &
      Programming Model

II. Using HDF5 —
     The Specifics

   The File
   Groups and Links
       Defining

           Groups
           Root Group
           Link Paths
           Hard and Symbolic Links
           Examples
           Summary

       Programming

           Creating a Group
           Opening a Group
           Creating a Dataset
           Closing a Group
           Creating Hard Links
           Deleting a Link
           Creating Symbolic Links
           Discovering Information
               about Objects
           Discovering Objects
               in a Group
           Discovering all of the
               Objects in the File
           Using H5Dump

       Examples

       Function Summaries
       Advanced Links

           Link Indexing and
               Compact Group Storage
           Reference Count
           Identifiers and Link Paths
           Moving or Renaming
               an Object
           Strong and Weak Links

   Datasets
   Objects and Identifiers
   Datatypes
   Dataspaces &
      Partial I/O
   Attributes
   Error Handling

III. Additional Resources
IV. Code Examples


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