Hi Daniel and Ray, >>> I've noticed that h5dump seems to truncate comments.
>> I reported this bug several weeks ago, so I think the answer is "there is no >> switch to fix it." > One of us is working on it. Thank you! >> 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"? Functionally, nothing. Conceptually, lots. Comments are for humans and attributes are for machines. Analogously, in C-speak one could claim that both of A) static const char cmt1[] = "Some pertinent comment"; B) /* Some pertinent comment */ are functionally equivalent. Obviously, they're conceptually quite distinct. Fortunately, the C language folks decided to not make programmers simulate comments via other language functionality. > Actually, the library has deprecated comment in favor of attributes. Say it ain't so! There's unlimited goodness to be gained by having an unambiguous comment facility! - Rhys _______________________________________________ Hdf-forum is for HDF software users discussion. [email protected] http://mail.hdfgroup.org/mailman/listinfo/hdf-forum_hdfgroup.org
