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> Organization: Oregon Graduate Institute > Keywords: 199407071859.AA24809 David, > Thanks for the pointers. The primary "extension" I've heard about was > the ability to sort of access elements of multiple arrays in such a way > as to simulate "tuples". I saw something about "hyperslabs" in the FAQ, > so maybe that's what I had heard about. The tuple extension you heard about has been in netCDF since the last release, about a year ago. It involved adding a few new interfaces: There are ... some new interfaces that can be used to write, read, and inquire about records, where a record may contain multiple variables of different types and shapes. Where before you had to access a record's worth of data using multiple calls, now you will be able to use a single call. Hyperslabs are merely netCDF jargon for multidimensional orthogonal cross-sections, which were generalized in the last release to permit sub-sampling along one or more dimensions and mapping between the points of the hyperslab and the memory locations of the corresponding values. -- Russ Rew UCAR Unidata Program address@hidden P.O. Box 3000 http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ Boulder, CO 80307-3000