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On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Unidata Support wrote: > > ------- Forwarded Message > > >To: address@hidden > >From: Nathan Potter <address@hidden> > >Subject: Ineffective search > >Organization: UCAR/Unidata > >Keywords: 200209051749.g85HnFZ03760 > > > > Hey, > > I was trying to find out about CDL (network Common data form Description > Language) on the UCAR and UNIDATA web sites. At the UCAR site my search > yielded a number of hits , all of them archived emails from people asking > questions. My searchs at UNIDATA produced NO (as in 0, as in the number zero) > hits. > > In frustration I contacted John Caron, who was kind enough to send me the > following URL from the NetCDF user docs: > Nathan, Sorry about your frustration, I hate being frustrated myself. We are in a transition period to a new web server and the search part is not working correctly. If you use the old web server, it's works ok. I typed in CDL and got 401 results. Here's the url: http://search.ucar.edu/seek/query.html?rq=0&qt=CDL&qp=%2Bsite%3Awww.unidata.ucar.edu&pw=100%25&ws=0&qm=0&nh=10&lk=1&rf=0&oq= or to get access to the old web server. http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/index.html Click on the serach button Then enter your query. Hopes that helps. Robb... > http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf/guidec/guidec-15.html#HEADING15-0 > > Which points to a several pages of information about CDL. > > SO - Why am I writing? Because your search engine needs a kick in the head. > My > queries should have taken me to the above URL. > > (I searched on "CDL", and on "network common data form description language") > > Thanks for listening. > > > > Nathan > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Nathan Potter > > Senior Software Engineer > Distributed Oceanographic Data System > > College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences > Oregon State University > 104 Ocean Admin. Bldg. > Corvallis, OR 97331-5503 > > email: address@hidden > voice: (541) 737-2293 > fax: (541) 737-2064 > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > ------- End of Forwarded Message > > =============================================================================== Robb Kambic Unidata Program Center Software Engineer III Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research address@hidden WWW: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ ===============================================================================