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> Organization: Battelle, PNL > Keywords: 199405311629.AA07222 Hi Srinivas, > I was reading the HDF3.3r3-netCDF interface implementation, it says one > can access multiple netCDF files at the same time. Is it possible to have > multiple netCDF files (objects) in one HDF file ? The HDF documentation > is not complete as regards to netCDF interface. For a definitive answer, contact the NCSA developers of this implementation, but I don't think the current implementation supports multiple netCDF objects in one HDF file. If it did, there would have to be some way to specify to ncopen() which of the multiple netCDF objects you wanted to open in a file, and currently the ncopen() function as implement4ed on HDF has no parameter or syntax for this, as far as I know. > The usage.txt at ucar ftp site says that SSESCO has implement a meta-file > layer called "MRAF" to do just what I need. Is that in public domain ? No, SSESCO only makes their software available commercially, as far as I know. If you need freely available software, you might also check out Envision, described at http://sslab.colorado.edu:2222/projects/Envision_toc.html It implements an abstraction that permits accessing a multi-file collection of netCDF datasets as if it were only one file. __________________________________________________________________________ Russ Rew UCAR Unidata Program address@hidden P.O. Box 3000 (303)497-8645 Boulder, Colorado 80307-3000