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CDF
User's Guide
Version 2.5, January 10, 1995
National Space Science Data Center

Copyright   © -- 1995 NASA/GSFC/NSSDC

National Space Science Data Center
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Greenbelt, Maryland 20771 (U.S.A.)

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• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• 1 Primer
  • 1.1 Introduction
  • 1.2 Why Use CDF?
  • 1.3 Conceptual Organization
  • 1.4 Features of the CDF Library
    • 1.4.1 File Format Options
    • 1.4.2 Data Encoding Options
    • 1.4.3 Variable Data Access Options
  • 1.5 Organizing Your Data in a CDF
    • 1.5.1 Variables
      • rVariables
      • zVariables
  • 1.6 Attributes
  • 1.7 CDF Toolkit
  • 1.8 Library Interface Routines
    • 1.8.1 Standard Interface
    • 1.8.2 Internal Interface
  • 1.9 Examples
    • 1.9.1 Creating a CDF, the Hard Way (But Not That Hard)
    • 1.9.2 Creating a CDF, an Easier Way
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