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H5FROMH4(1)			     h5utils			     H5FROMH4(1)

NAME
     h5fromh4 - convert HDF4 scientific datasets to an HDF5 file

SYNOPSIS
     h5fromh4 [OPTION]... [HDF4FILE]...

DESCRIPTION
     h5fromh4  takes  one or more files in HDF4 format and outputs files in HDF5
     format containing the datasets from the HDF4  files.   (Currently,  only  a
     single dataset per HDF4 file is converted.)

     HDF4  and	HDF5  are free, portable binary formats and supporting libraries
     developed by the National Center for  Supercomputing  Applications  at  the
     University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign.

     A	single h5 file can contain multiple data sets; by default, h5fromh4 cre-
     ates a dataset called "data", but this can be changed via the -d option, or
     by using the syntax HDF5FILE:DATASET with the -o option.  The -a option can
     be used to append new datasets to an existing HDF5 file.  If the -o  option
     is  used  and  multiple HDF4 files are specified, all the HDF4 datasets are
     output into that HDF5 file with the input filenames (minus the ".hdf"  suf-
     fix) used as the dataset names.

     The  most basic usage is something like 'h5fromh4 foo.hdf', which will out-
     put a file foo.h5 containing the scientific dataset from foo.hdf.

OPTIONS
     -h     Display help on the command-line options and usage.

     -V     Print the version number and copyright info for h5fromh4.

     -v     Verbose output.

     -a     If the HDF5 output file already exists, append the	data  as  a  new
	    dataset rather than overwriting the file (the default behavior).  An
	    existing  dataset  of  the same name within the file is overwritten,
	    however.

     -o file
	    Send HDF5 output to file rather than to the input filename with .hdf
	    replaced with .h5 (the default).  If multiple input files were spec-
	    ified, this causes all input datasets to be stored in  file  (rather
	    than  in  separate	files), with the input filenames (minus the .hdf
	    suffix) as the dataset names.

     -d name
	    Write to dataset name in the output; otherwise, the  output  dataset
	    is	 called  "data"  by  default.	Alternatively,	use  the  syntax
	    HDF5FILE:DATASET with the -o option.

BUGS
     Send bug reports to S. G. Johnson, stevenj@alum.mit.edu.

AUTHORS
     Written by Steven G. Johnson.  Copyright (c) 2005 by the Massachusetts  In-
     stitute of Technology.

h5utils 			  March 9, 2002 		     H5FROMH4(1)

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