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Hi Li: Can you send a dump with the netcdf c program ncdump or the hdf program hdump ? Are you having a problem reading? thanks, John > > > > > From: Zhenping Li [mailto:address@hidden] > Sent: Monday, February 09, 2015 5:18 PM > To: 'address@hidden' > Subject: question about large file support > > > > To Whom It may concern: > > I am trying to write a java program to read the large file (a little large > than 3Gibyte in size), the main data variable is a byte array. When I > printed the meta data of the netcdf (using toString() method, see enclosed > output), it has a byte array abi_space_packet_data with the dimension zero. > The actual dimension is not zero. Since the Dimension is defined as > unlimited, is the dimension with 0 length a problem with the file, or not a > problem. How do I read in this case? > > > > Another question, since the length of an dimension is integer, does this > limit the maximum length to 2^31-1 so that it could not be negative? > > > > Thanks for your help. > > > > Sincerely > > > > Zhenping Li > > > > > Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: CPC-398807 Department: Support netCDF Java Priority: Normal Status: Open