********************************************************************** SZIP compatibility ********************************************************************** Libaec includes a free drop-in replacement for the SZIP library[1]. Just replace SZIP's shared library libsz.so* with libaec.so* and libsz.so* from libaec. For Windows the DLLs are called SZIP.DLL and AEC.DLL. Code which is dynamically linked with SZIP such as HDF5 should continue to work with libaec. No re-compilation required. HDF5 files which contain SZIP encoded data can be decoded by HDF5 using libaec and vice versa. [1] http://www.hdfgroup.org/doc_resource/SZIP/