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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