This is the CDF V3.0 software distribution directory for 
Windows NT/95/98/ME/2000/XP systems.  This directory contains the 
following files:

AAREADME.txt	This is the AAREADME.txt file. 

CHANGES.txt     This file describes the changes made for the current release.

Release.notes	This file describes the changes for CDF V3.0.

CDF30_SETUP.EXE	This self-installation file contains everything CDF offers 
                except for the CDF Perl APIs. It contains the following 
                items:
 
                   - CDF library
                   - CDF C, Fortran, and Java APIs 
                   - C and Java version of the CDF tools
                   - CDF XML tools

CDF30SRC.EXE	This self-extracting file contains all source programs  
		used for creating the CDF library and tools. Download this
		file only if you want to build a CDF library on your own. 

CDF30TOOLS32.EXE  This self-extracting file is an optional file and contains 
                  the command-line based CDF utilities (e.g. cdfedit, cdfexport,
                  etc.).  The command-line based tools can be useful if you want
                  to process files in a batch mode.  It can be used to replace 
                  the MS VC++-based CDFso.exe and CDFfsi.exe programs 
                  distributed in CDF30_SETUP.EXE.

                  You need to download and install the basic Cygwin package 
                  before you can use interactive tools like cdfedit.  To obtain 
                  more information about Cygwin or download the Cygwin package,
                  please go to http://www.cygwin.com. 

PerlCDF30.EXE   This self-extracting file contains all compiled code for 
                Perl-CDF APIs. Two test Perl scripts are also included.
                This is for Perl module built from VC++ V6.0 or pre-build 
                binary downloaded from ActiveState Corp.

PerlCDF30VC7.EXE   This self-extracting file contains all compiled code for
                   Perl-CDF APIs. Two test Perl scripts are also included.
                   This is for Perl module built from VC++ V7.0/1.

CDF30MinGW.EXE  This self-extracting file contains pre-built CDF library for
                MinGW port. The library can be called from C and Fortran
                program.