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Re: unable to access Jenter et al (1992)

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  • Subject: Re: unable to access Jenter et al (1992)
  • Date: Tue, 15 Nov 1994 10:19:02 -0700
> Organization: Environment Waikato, New Zealand
> Keywords: 199411150324.AA20700

Hi Peter,

> I am currently assessing available software which is capable of handling 
> time series (and other scientific) data. Among my list of likely candidates 
> is HDF and netCDF.  Having recently connected to your WWW site 
> (gopher://groucho.unidata.ucar.edu:70/00/publications/factsheets/netcdf/netc  
> df.README file), I saw reference to the introductory article:
> 
> 
> Jenter, H. L. and R. P. Signell, 1992. "NetCDF: A Freely-Available
> Software-Solution to Data-Access Problems for Numerical Modelers".
> Proceedings of the American Society of Civil Engineers Conference on
> Estuarine and Coastal Modeling. Tampa, Florida.
> 
> 
> In the WWW page,  it was stated that the paper is available via anonymous 
> FTP from
> 
> host: crusty.er.usgs.gov
> file: pub/netcdf.asce.ps
> 
> Having successfully logged into the site, and changed to the pub directory, 
> I was unable to GET the file.  Here is a transcript of the error I recieved
> 
> FTP> get netcdf.asce.ps
> %UCX-E-FTP_OPNOUT, Error opening for output : NETCDF.ASCE.PS
> %RMS-F-SYN, file specification syntax error
> 
> Would this error be caused by the fact that the file was given two suffixes? 

It's possible, if the system on which you are trying to store a copy of the
file doesn't permit filenames with multiple suffixes.  Some FTP clients
perform automatic name mangling to solve such problems; others don't.
Perhaps you should try specifying the destination name as the second
parameter to the FTP GET command, as in:

  FTP> get netcdf.asce.ps netcdf.ps

which should store the file as "netcdf.ps".

>  Could you please recommend a means for me to obtain the file, as I think it 
> would be very worthwhile.  Thanks in advance for any help.

If the above suggestion doesn't work, let me know and I'll make it available
from our FTP area using a simpler name.

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