This is the CDF V3.5.1 online software distribution directory
for Linux/ Unix systems. The sub-incremental version is marked as "_#", e.g.,
_1, _2, etc, if it exists. This directory contains the following files:
AAREADME.txt This is the readme text file you're viewing.
CHANGES.txt Description of the changes made for various releases.
Release.notes Information about the current CDF release.
CDF_copyright.txt Information about the CDF copyright.
cdf35_1-dist-all.tar.gz This file contains everything CDF offers except for
the CDF Perl APIs, and it contains the following
items:
- CDF library
- CDF C, Fortran, and Java APIs
- C and Java version of the CDF tools
- CDF XML tools
cdf35_1-dist-all.tar.gz is the combination of
cdf35_1-dist-cdf.tar.gz and
cdf35_1-dist-java.tar.gz
This file is compressed with the 'gzip' utility.
cdf35_1-dist-cdf.tar.gz This file contains the following items:
- CDF library
- CDF C and Fortran APIs
- C version of the CDF tools.
This file is compressed with the 'gzip' utility.
cdf35_1-dist-java.tar.gz This file contains the CDF Java APIs and Java
version of the CDF tools (e.g. cdfedit, cdfexport,
etc.) as well as CDF XML tools. Download this file
if you already have a CDF library installed on your
machine and want to develop CDF applications in Java
or use the Java version of the CDF tools.
This file is compressed with the 'gzip' utility.
cdf35_1-dist-java_src.tar.gz This file contains the code source, including
the CDF Java APIs and Java version of the CDF tools
(e.g. cdfedit, cdfexport, etc.), CDF XML tools, as
well as the JNI that supports the CDF Java APIs.
cdfjava.jar This is the latest version of cdfjava.jar that
contains the latest Java APIs. This file is also
included in cdf35_1-dist-all.tar.gz and
cdf35_1-dist-java.tar.gz. But it is here
for those who installed the Java APIs a while back
and might not have the latest Java APIs.
If you are not sure whether you have the latest
version of the Java APIs, download this file and
replace the one you have in the
<cdf35_1_dir>/cdfjava/classes directory.
The latest version is multi-threaded safe. If you
encounter any problem using this version, you may
need to recompile the JNI, cdfNativeLibrary.c, that
is in cdfjava/jni directory in the (compressed)
tarball, i.e., cdf35_1-dist-all.tar* or
cdf35_1-dist-java.tar*.
cdfml.jar This file contains the latest version of the CDF XML
utilities (written in Java), and it contains the
following programs:
CDF2CDFML: Extracts the contents of a CDF file
into a XML file that conforms to the
CDF DTD or schema.
CDFML2CDF: Creates a CDF file from a XML file
that conforms to the CDF DTD or
schema.
The XML parser, SAX, is required to run
this program. Note that Sun's JDK 1.4
or a later version has a built-in XML
parser, so you don't need a separate
XML parser run this program.
Note that this file is also included in
cdf35_1-dist-all.tar.gz and
cdf35_1-dist-java.tar.gz,
but it is here for those who already have
downloaded and installed an old version of
cdf35_1-dist-all.tar.gz or
cdf35_1-dist-java.tar.gz.
If you are not sure whether you have the latest
version of the CDF XML tools, download this file and
replace the one you have in the
<cdf35_1_dir>/cdfjava/cdfml directory.
PerlCDF35_1.tar.gz Compressed and tarred Perl-CDF APIs source file. You
need to install the CDF library prior to building
and using the Perl APIs.
cdf35_documentation This file points to the documentation of CDF V3.5.
cdf.dtd This is CDFML's Document Type Definition (dtd).
cdf.xsd This is CDFML's schema.
testdtd.xml This is sample XML that conforms to CDFML's DTD.
testxsd.xml This is sample XML that conforms to CDFML's schema.
CDFLeapSeconds.txt This is the latest leap second table used by CDF
operations.
checkleapseconds.sh Shell-script to check if the installed leap seconds
table is the letest.