This module contains functions to read and write the data.
To create a new dataset the output format must be specified
with one of the following predefined file format types:

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\begin{deflist}{{\large\tt FILETYPE\_GRB2 \ \ }}
\item[{\large\tt FILETYPE\_GRB}]  File type GRIB version 1
\item[{\large\tt FILETYPE\_GRB2}] File type GRIB version 2          
\item[{\large\tt FILETYPE\_NC }]  File type netCDF
\item[{\large\tt FILETYPE\_NC2}]  File type netCDF version 2 (64-bit)
\item[{\large\tt FILETYPE\_NC4}]  File type netCDF-4 classic (HDF5)
\item[{\large\tt FILETYPE\_SRV}]  File type SERVICE
\item[{\large\tt FILETYPE\_EXT}]  File type EXTRA
\item[{\large\tt FILETYPE\_IEG}]  File type IEG
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{\tt FILETYPE\_GRB2} is only available if the {\CDI} library was compiled with GRIB\_API support and all netCDF file types are only available if the {\CDI} library was compiled with netCDF support!

To set the byte order of a binary dataset with the file format
type {\tt FILETYPE\_SRV}, {\tt FILETYPE\_EXT} or {\tt FILETYPE\_IEG} use one of the
following predefined constants in the call to {\htmlref{\tt streamDefByteorder}{streamDefByteorder}}:

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\begin{deflist}{{\large\tt CDI\_LITTLEENDIAN \ \ }}
\item[{\large\tt CDI\_BIGENDIAN   }]  Byte order big endian
\item[{\large\tt CDI\_LITTLEENDIAN}]  Byte order little endian
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