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Appendix D Release Notes
D.1
Supported Systems
CDF V3.2 is currently supported on the following computers/operating systems.
1. VAX (OpenVMS & POSIX shell)
2. Sun (Solaris)
3. DECstation (ULTRIX)
4. Silicon Graphics Iris & Power Series (IRIX)
5. IBM RS6000 series (AIX)52
6. HP 9000 series (HP-UX)1
7. PC (MS-DOS, Windows NT/95/98/2000/XP, Linux, & QNX)
8. NeXT (Mach)1
9. DEC Alpha (OSF/1 & OpenVMS)
10. Macintosh (Mac OS X)
D.2
Compatibility with CDF 2.7.2 and Earlier Versions
CDF V3.1 is backward compatible with the previous versions of CDF, and it can read CDF files that were created with
CDF 3.0 or CDF 2.7.2 or earlier. If a file was created with CDF 2.7 and read and modified by CDF 3.1, the resultant
file will be saved in the CDF 2.7 format, not CDF 3.1. The same principle applies to files that were created with CDF
2.5 and 2.6. CDF files that are created from scratch with CDF V3.1 are compatible with CDF 3.0, but not compatible
(due to a 64-bit file offsets used in CDF 3.0 or later versions) with CDF 2.7.2 or earlier, and an attempt to read CDF 3.0
or 3.1 files from CDF 2.7.2 or earlier will produce an error.
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Due to lack of user’s interest and hardware, this operating system is not tested. If you need to run the CDF V3.1
library on either HP-UX or IBM’s AIX operating system, please contact the CDF support office at [email protected].
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