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> Organization: MIT Plasma Fusion Center > Keywords: 199502091729.AA26456 Hi Martin, > I work in the Magnetic Fusion program at MIT. We have a possible > application for NetCDF - interchange of data between various labs in this > country and abroad. This has been an ongoing effort but uses fairly > primitive software technology. My understanding is that NetCDF is > designed to ease transfer of data between different platforms and > systems. NetCDF is referred to as a "self-describing data format" which > sounds like what we are looking for. > > Is introductory documentation available? Yes. You might want to first look at the NetCDF Home Page for the World Wide Web that we maintain at http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf/ using some WWW browser such as Netscape or Mosaic. It contains links to other on-line netCDF documents. In case you don't have access to WWW browsers, a netCDF README file is also available via anonymous FTP in the pub/netcdf/ directory of ftp.unidata.ucar.edu. > Some questions I have are: > > What are the basic principles of NetCDF? > What platforms and languages are supported? > What are the licensing issues? > How does NetCDF relate to CDF? > How does it differ from HDF? These are good questions that get asked frequently enough that we've collected the questions and answers into a netCDF Frequently Asked Questions document, available to WWW browsers from the netCDF home page or via anonymous FTP from the file pub/netcdf/faq.txt on ftp.unidata.ucar.edu. If after browsing these documents you still have questions about netCDF, please send them to address@hidden. ______________________________________________________________________________ Russ Rew UCAR Unidata Program address@hidden P.O. Box 3000 http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ Boulder, CO 80307-3000 ______________________________________________________________________________