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#  NSSDC/CDF						CDFdump online help.
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#  Version 1.0, 29-Jul-06, Raytheon.
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#   V1.0  29-Jul-06, M Liu 	Original version.
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CDFdump is a utility program used to dump the data contents of a
CDF.  The parameters/qualifiers dialog box displayed when CDFdump is
`executed' contains the following controls.

Edit fields for...

  CDF:               The file name of the CDF to be examined.  At the end of
                     this field a button labeled "Select" is present.  When
                     selected, a standard input file dialog is displayed
                     from which the CDF may be selected.

  Output:            The file name of the output file to which the dump will
                     be written.  At the end of this field a button labeled
                     "Select" is present.  When selected, a standard output
                     file dialog is displayed in which the output file
                     file name may be specified.  If an extension is not
                     specified in this file name, `.txt' is appended
                     automatically.  If this field is left blank, the output 
                     is displayed on the screen in the "CDFdump: standard
                     output" window.

Check boxes for...

  Short dump:        Whether or not to produce a short dump that will not 
                     include information from variable record data.

  Use Format:        Whether or not the FORAMT attribute is used to control
                     how the data from a variable is to be displayed. 

  About:             Display the library version that is used to creat the
                     tool.

Buttons for...

  Enter              Causes CDFdump to dump a CDF based on the
                     parameters/qualifiers specified.

  Help               Causes this online help to be displayed.

  Quit               Causes CDFdump to terminate.  (A CDF dump is not
                     performed.)  This button is only present the
                     first time the parameters/qualifiers dialog box
                     is displayed.