IDL HDF file browser

[Mark Rivers <RIVERS@cars3.uchicago.edu>]

    Folks,

I have now received and installed IDL 4.0.1b.  It appears to fix all of the
known bugs related to reading HDF files. I believe there is a bug in
writing an SDS of type DFNT_CHAR8, which I am communicating with RSI about.

I am making available a new version of my IDL APS_HDF_BROWSER, which displays
the structure of a proposed APS format data file.  It now show the values of
the first few elements of each SDS, including those which are strings.

It is available via anonymous FTP from cars.uchicago.edu in 
pub/epics/idl_hdf.tar

There are 3 files:
hdf_examples.c 
    Jon Tischler's example program which wrote the data set.  Note
    that this is probably not the latest version of Jon's example program
aps_hdf_browser.pro
    My IDL routine for viewing the structure of the files.
get_font_name.pro
    A utility routine for getting the name of an X windows font

Note that you must be running IDL 4.0.1b or later for this to work.
Let me know of any problems or suggestions.


                                   Mark