2.2 CDFs

The following sections describe various aspects of a CDF.

• 2.2.1 Accessing
• 2.2.2 Creating
• 2.2.3 Opening
• 2.2.4 Closing
• 2.2.5 Deleting
• 2.2.6 Naming
• 2.2.7 Format
  • Multi-File CDFs
  • Single-File CDFs
    • Indexing Scheme.
  • Performance
• 2.2.8 Encoding
  • Host Encodings
  • Network Encoding
  • Equivalent Encodings
    • Character/1-Byte Integer Data Types.
    • Multiple-Byte Integer Data Types.
    • Single-Precision Floating-Point Data Types.
    • Double-Precision Floating-Point Data Types.
  • Performance
• 2.2.9 Decoding
  • Performance
• 2.2.10 Data Types
  • Integer Data Types
  • Floating Point Data Types
  • Character Data Types
  • EPOCH Data Type
  • Equivalent Data Types
• 2.2.11 Limits