
These directories contain contributions donated by HDF users.

Unfortunately, NCSA is not able to support this software at
this time, but we encourage you to use it and send comments, 
upgrades, etc., to us and the authors.


We sincerely thank the people who have gone to the trouble of
packaging and donating this software, and we encourage others
to do the same.

Listed below are brief descriptions of the contents of each of
the directories.  Each directory has a README file with further
details.  

=================== olsen ================


Several utilities (with man pages):

xwdtohdf       - converts X-windows display to hdf
hdftoxwd       - converts hdf to X-windows display 
qdvtohdf       - converts qdv to hdf converter
paltohdf       - converts raw palette to hdf 
hdfxdis        - directly displays HDF image on an X server

Dave Olsen
Materials Science Center, Cornell Univ.
olsen@msc2.tn.cornell.edu


=================== gerardi ================

A new version of the hdfrseq utility:

hdfrseq_new     - new hdfrseq routine with special Sunview features

Paul Gerardi
Schlumberger-Doll

=================== salem  ================

HDF Image Format Conversion Utilities

hdf2tiff	- converts HDF images to TIFF images
tiff2hdf	- converts TIFF images to HDF images
hdf2ras		- converts HDF images to Sun Rasterfile images
ras2hdf		- converts Sun Rasterfile images to HDF images

Jim Salem (salem@think.com)
Thinking Machines Corporation

 
