There is a bug report on which the h5dump can't print comment correctly. One of us is working on it. Actually, the library has deprecated comment in favor of attribute. So you're encouraged to use object attribute. The reference manual will reflect this change for the 1.8.6 release.
Thanks. Ray On Feb 11, 2011, at 2:20 PM, Daniel Kahn wrote: > Rhys Ulerich wrote: >> Me again, >> >> I've noticed that h5dump seems to truncate comments. On 1.8.5-patch1 >> the code like >> >> > Hi Rhys, > > I reported this bug several weeks ago, so I think the answer is "there is no > switch to fix it." > > Actually, I don't understand the reason for the existence of the object > comment facility. Is there a substantive difference between a comment and > an HDF5 attribute called, say, "COMMENT"? > > --dan > > -- > Daniel Kahn > Science Systems and Applications Inc. > 301-867-2162 > > > _______________________________________________ > Hdf-forum is for HDF software users discussion. > [email protected] > http://mail.hdfgroup.org/mailman/listinfo/hdf-forum_hdfgroup.org _______________________________________________ Hdf-forum is for HDF software users discussion. [email protected] http://mail.hdfgroup.org/mailman/listinfo/hdf-forum_hdfgroup.org
