What are the HDF command line utilities?
The HDF command line utilities are application programs that can be executed by entering them at the command level, just like UNIX commands. There are HDF utilities to: analyze and view HDF files (‘hdp’ being one of the more useful tools) convert from one format to another manipulate HDF files They provide capabilities for doing things with HDF files for which you would normally have to write your own program. The ‘hdp’ utility is one of the more useful HDF utilities. Following is a description of its function: It provides quick information about the contents and data objects in an HDF file. It can list the contents of hdf files at various levels with different details. It can also dump the data of one or more objects in the file in binary or ASCII format. The other utilities are: gif2hdf — converts GIF image into HDF GR image. hdf24to8 — converts a 24-bit image into an 8-bit image h4cc — compiles an HDF4 C program h4fc — compiles an HDF4 F90 program h4redeploy — Updates paths in
