This directory contains the following files:

AAREADME.txt           This is the AAREADME.txt file.

CHANGES.txt            Description of the changes made for the current release.

Release.notes          Information about the current CDF release.

cdf27_setup_universal_binary.tar.gz     
                       Self-installation package for Intel and PowerPC Mac 
                       OS X 10.2 or later.  Download and double-click the
                       downloaded file for installation.

                       This package contains everything CDF offers except for 
                       the CDF Perl APIs and contains the following:

                        - pre-COMPILED CDF library (for C, Fortran, and Java)
                        - complete suite of the CDF tools (both GUI-based and
                          command-line-based)

PerlCDF27.tar.gz       Compressed tar file with the Gnu 'gzip' utility that
                       contains Perl-CDF APIs.  Download this if you are 
                       planning on developing CDF applications in Perl.

src_distribution       Directory where the CDF source distribution is 
                       available.  Go here if you want to build your
                       own CDF library and tools.