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> Organization: NASA/GSFC > Keywords: 199406021531.AA25515 Hi Keith, > Thanx for your reply. I have 2 questions or comments. > > I had to get someone else to uncompress and untar the > netcdf.tar.Z file (actually netcdf-2.3.2pl2.tar.Z) and he > encountered an error on a file that said it was not a file. > I think the name was netcdf-2.3.2pl2.tar. Is this where > the source is? netcdf.tar.Z is a symbolic link to netcdf-2.3.2pl2.tar.Z, so they are just two names for the same file. When you untar the file, it tries to create a subdirectory named "netcdf-2.3.2pl2". This might be a problem on a non-UNIX system if this is an invalid name for a directory. If this is the problem, see if your tar has some option to change such names, or untar it onto a UNIX system and change the directory name there before copying it into the non-Unix system. Using this name was an oversight on our part, since we didn't mean to create such problems for non-UNIX systems. When I get time, I'll remake the tar file so that the top-level directory is named "netcdf-232pl2" instead. > Also, I don't know what is or how to get to: > > http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf/ That's an example of a URL (Uniform Resource Locator), and is the recommended way to refer to WWW (World Wide Web) documents that can be viewed with NCSA Mosaic, lynx, or other WWW client programs. Sorry I didn't make this clear; I sometimes incorrectly assume everyone is now using Mosaic to access network information instead of FTP, telnet, and gopher, since it subsumes all these older interfaces. Mosaic is a great interface to information on the Internet, and the program is freely available from NCSA. We've converted all our netCDF documentation and information files to a form that can be viewed by Mosaic (or other WWW clients), because the resulting hyper text documents are more useful and readable in that form than plain text. We still make the documents and information available in text form also; in particular, the list of netCDF Frequently Asked Questions is a useful document that is available via anonymous FTP from pub/netcdf/FAQ on the host ftp.unidata.ucar.edu. __________________________________________________________________________ Russ Rew UCAR Unidata Program address@hidden P.O. Box 3000 (303)497-8645 Boulder, Colorado 80307-3000