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Hi Angel,

>Date: Fri, 13 May 1994 13:48:53 -0400
>From: address@hidden (Angel Li)
>To: address@hidden
>Subject: netcdf on openvms/alpha

In the above message you wrote:

>I am trying to build the netcdf library, 2.3.2pl2 on an Alpha
>running OpenVMS. ncdump doesn't seem to recognize valid netcdf
>files and neither do my programs. Alpha/OpenVMS is a rather
>strange system: longs are 32 bits, IEEE floats are not the default,
>compiler switches are needed to force IEEE. Has anyone reported
>success porting netcdf to this combo?

Here's all that we have on the subject (from our Gopher server):

    From: Russ Rew <address@hidden>
    Message-Id: <address@hidden>
    Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1993 07:55:08 -0700
    To: address@hidden (Doug Greig)
    In-Reply-To: <address@hidden> 
                (address@hidden)
    Subject: Re: netCDF on OpenVMS 1.5

    Organization: PE Nelson Systems, Inc.
    Keywords: 199312010026.AA15916

    Doug,

    >I saw the question posed by Dave Rothman at DOW regarding netCDF on
    >the DEC Alpha under OpenVMS and I wanted to let you know that we
    >have successfully ported it.  The only problem we encountered was
    >the xdrfloat.c routine which had to be rewritten with the AXP
    >floating point representations in mind.  We have been able to
    >generate XDR format files on the Alpha platform and read them on
    >the Sun and vice versa.

    Great, I was hoping someone had done this already.

    >If you are interested I would be happy to provide the modified
    >xdrfloat.c routine.

    Yes, please.  Thanks for the offer.

    --Russ

Unfortunately, he never sent us the diffs.  You might try contacting him
directly.

Regards,
Steve