Directory Title:   International Solar-Terrestiral Physics (ISTP) flavored
                   Common Data Format (CDF) tools.
Directory Address: DECnet > NSSDCA:ANON_DIR:[000000.ISTP_CDF]
                   Internet > ANONYMOUS@NSSDCA, ANON_DIR:[000000.ISTP_CDF]
Principal Contact: Richard Burley - burley@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov
                   Code 632, NASA/GSFC
                   Phone: (301) 286-2864
Organization:      Space Physics Data Facility (SPDF)
                   NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771
Computer System:   NSSDC Computing Facility (NCF)
Brief Description: makeCDF and makeSFDU tools

makeCDF is a tool for reading in flat data sets, in both binary and 
textual form, and generating a CDF dataset from that data.  The CDF 
files produced by this tool comply with the International Solar- 
Terrestrial Physics (ISTP) Key Parameter Generation Software (KPGS) 
Standards and Guidelines (12/92).  makeCDF is written in standard ANSI-C,
and has been tested on VAX/VMS, Sun/Unix, and IBMPC/DOS platforms.  It is 
distributed freely by the NASA/GSFC/Space Physics Data Facility.  It 
contains no proprietary software.  makeCDF is still under development.  
Planned enhancements include increased validation of user input, performance
optimization, expanded on-line help, and additional Epoch calculation 
algorithms.  Any additional functional enhancements requested by our user 
community  will also be added, as time and resources permit.

makeSFDU is a portable tool that can generate a minimal detached
Standard Formatted Data Unit (SFDU) from a CDF file which complies
with the International Solar-Terrestrial Physics (ISTP) Key Parameter
Generation Software (KPGS) Standard and Conventions (12/92).