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      <h1>Introduction</h1>
      IEEEIO is a compact library for storing multidimensional
      scientific data in a binary format that can be transported
      between different computer systems.  It derives its name from the
      fact that it depends on the 
      <a href="http://standards.ieee.org/catalog/it.html#gen184">IEEE
	754</a> 
      standard representations
      for  floating point numbers to achieve its portability.  It
      provides  many of the capabilities of the 
      <a href="http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu">HDF-SDS</a> and NetCDF
      file  formats however it is much smaller and simpler than
      either.  In addition, it is <a href="Performance.html">
	reasonably fast</a> when compared
      to raw f77 unformatted IO.

	The programming interface allows complete
      interoperability  with the HDF and NetCDF formats if those
      libraries  are linked in.  It is not intended to supercede these
      formats.  It is designed to replace them only where the extra
      functionality  and consequent size of these libraries is not
      desired.<p>
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      <h1>Information</h1>
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	<LI><a href="why.html">Why IEEEIO</a>
	<LI><a href="Performance.html">Performance</a>
	<LI><a href="Aquiring.html">Aquiring the source code and compiling IEEEIO</a>
	<LI><a href="Using.html">Using IEEEIO</a>
	<LI><a href="Utilities.html">Utilities and Data Translators</a>
	<LI><a href="VizReaders.html">Readers for Visualization Systems</a>
	<LI><a href="HighLev.html">Higher level interfaces</a>
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      <address><a href="mailto:jshalf@suttung.aei-potsdam.mpg.de">John Shalf</a></address>
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