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@@ -29,7 +29,6 @@ src/H5Fed.c -text
 src/H5Fed.h -text
 src/H5Fed_adjacency.c -text
 src/H5Fed_dof.c -text
-src/H5Fed_retrieve.c -text
 src/H5Fed_statistics.c -text
 src/H5Fed_storeretrieve.c -text
 src/H5Part.c -text
diff --git a/src/H5Fed_retrieve.c b/src/H5Fed_retrieve.c
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-/******	RETRIEVAL routines **************************************************/
-/*
-  Copyright 2006-2007
- 	Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen, Switzerland;
- 	Benedikt Oswald;
- 	Achim Gsell
- 	All rights reserved.
- 
-  Authors
- 	Achim Gsell
-  
-  Warning
-	This code is under development.
- 
- */
-
-#include <hdf5.h>
-#include "h5/h5_types.h"
-#include "H5Fed.h"
-
-/*!
-  \ingroup h5fed_c_api
-
-  Get coordinates of the vertex \c vertex_id.
-
-  \return pointer to 3-dimensional coordinates.
-  \return NULL-pointer on error.
- 
-  \note
-  Not all vertices are needed on all compute nodes, i.e. in order to
-  guarantee optimum memory usage, the implementor of the API must make sure
-  that the access to a desired vertex is carried out efficiently.
-
-  Effectively, this means that the application programmer on a particular
-  compute node loops over the tetrahedra that have been assigned to this
-  particular compute node, using the API routine \c H5FedGetTetrahedron.
-
-  Then, a specific tetrahedron is defined by indices into the set of vertex
-  coordinates.
- 
-  Therefore, the application programmer wants to access these coordinates,
-  and he calls the API routine \c H5FedGetVertexCoordinate.
- 
-  To achieve this behavior, it is required that the mesh be partitioned
-  before any access to vertex coordinates or topological entities are
-  carried out.
- */
-h5_vertex * H5FedGetVertexCoordinate (
-	h5_file * fh,			/*!< file handle		*/
-	const h5_id_t level,		/*!< mesh level			*/
-	const h5_id_t vertex_id		/*!< vertex id			*/
-	) {
-	return NULL;
-}
-
-/*!
-  \ingroup h5fed_c_api
-
-  Get the definition of a specific edge \edge_id, i.e. a 2-tuple
-  containing the specific indices of the 3-dimensional vertex
-  coordinates.
-
-  \return pointer to 2-tuple of vertex id's defining the edge.
-  \return NULL-pointer on error.
-*/
-h5_edge * H5FedGetEdge (
-	h5_file * fh,			/*!< file handle		*/
-	const h5_id_t level,		/*!< mesh level			*/
-	const h5_id_t edge_id,		/*!< global edge id		*/
-	h5_id_t * const parent_id	/*!< OUT: parent id if level
-					     \c >0 else \c -1		*/
-	) {
-	return NULL;
-}
-
-/*!
-  \ingroup h5fed_c_api
-
-  Get the definition of a specific triangle \triangle_id, i.e. 
-  a 3-tuple containing the specific indices of the 3-dimensional vertex
-  coordinates.
-
-  \return pointer to 3-tuple of vertex id's defining the triangle.
-  \return NULL-pointer on error.
-*/
-h5_triangle * H5FedGetTriangle (
-	h5_file * fh,			/*!< file handle		*/
-	const h5_id_t level,		/*!< mesh level			*/
-	const h5_id_t triangle_id,	/*!< global triangle id		*/
-	h5_id_t * parent_id		/*!< OUT: parent id if level
-					     \c >0 else \c -1		*/
-	) {
-	return NULL;
-}
-
-/*!
-  \ingroup h5fed_c_api
-
-  Get the definition of a specific tetrahedron \c tetra_id, i.e. 
-  a 4-tuple containing the specific indices of the 3-dimensional vertex
-  coordinates.
-
-  \return pointer to 4-tuple of vertex id's defining the tetrahedron.
-  \return NULL-pointer on error.
-*/
-h5_tetrahedron * H5FedGetTetrahedron (
-	h5_file * fh,			/*!< file handle		*/
-	const h5_id_t level,		/*!< mesh level to query	*/
-	const h5_id_t tet_id,		/*!< global tetrahedron id	*/
-	h5_id_t * parent_id		/*!< OUT: parent id if level
-					     \c >0 else \c -1		*/
-	) {
-	return NULL;
-}
-
-/*!
-  \ingroup h5fed_c_api
-
-  Get the definition of the boundary triangle \c triangle_id at level
-  \c level, i.e. the indices of the 3-dimensional vertex coordinates.
-
-  \return pointer to 3-tuple of vertex id's defining the boundary triangle.
-  \return NULL-pointer on error.
-*/
-h5_triangle * H5FedGetBoundaryTriangle (
-	h5_file * fh,			/*!< file handle		*/
-	const h5_id_t level,		/*!< mesh level to query	*/
-	const h5_id_t triangle_id,	/*!< global btriangle_id	*/
-	h5_id_t * parent_id		/*!< OUT: parent id if level
-					     \c >0 else \c -1		*/
-	) {
-	return NULL;
-}