# HDF Reference Manual

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> ### H - Common H Interface

> | Hclose/hclose | Closes the access path to the file.
> | Hgetfileversion/hgfilver | Retrieves version information for an HDF file.
> | Hgetlibversion/hglibver | Retrieves the version information of the current HDF library.
> | Hishdf/hishdff | Determines if a file is an HDF file.
> | Hopen/hopen | Provides an access path to an HDF file by reading all the data descriptor blocks into memory.
> | HCget_config_info | Retrieves information about the configuration of a compression method.
> | HDdont_atexit/hddontatexit | Indicates to the library that an atexit() routine is _not_ to be installed.
> | HEprint/heprntf/heprnt | Prints information to the error stack.
> | HEstring/hestringf | Returns the error message associated with specified error code.
> | HXsetcreatedir/hxiscdir | Initializes the directory environment variable, identifying the location of the external file to be written.
> | HXsetdir/hxisdir | Initializes the directory environment variable, identifying the location of the external file to be located.

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