Re: 950220: netCDF on R8000

> >Organization: Sandia National Labs
> >Keywords: 199502202158.AA10216 netCDF SGI R8000

Larry,

> David Pierce sent me the following message concerning netCDF on R8000s.  
> I ftp'd the library and things went great until I exceded MAX_NC_DIMS (my 
> application uses hundreds of dimensions).  I really need the source so I 
> can modify the defined constants in netcdf.h.  Could you make the patches 
> available (even if they're unsupported) so I can make netCDF in our new 
> environment?  I need only the C interface.
> 
> - ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Thu, 16 Feb 1995 10:52:16 -0800 (PST)
> From: David Pierce <address@hidden>
> To: "Larry A. Schoof" <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: netcdf on SGI R8000
> 
> 
> Hi there,
> 
> I tried to persuade the netCDF people to make netCDF work on R8000s; 
> Steve Emmerson (Russ' co-worker) got the C library working, but (as far as
> I know) hasn't managed to get the Fortran part going (you might write to
> the netCDF people and express interest in that part if you *are*
> interested; perhaps they will look at it some more). 
> 
> If you want the C version, you can get it by anonymous ftp from 
> cirrus.ucsd.edu:/pub/netcdf.IRIX601.tar.Z.  I need the Fortran interface, 
> myself, so I can't confirm that it works, but Steve said that it passed 
> the tests.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> - --Dave

Sorry to take so long responding to this.

I'm CC:ing Steve Emmerson, who will tell you how to get the new version of
the module that has to be changed.

--Russ