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> We have found some problems with new version of FAN software. I have > fixed these & as before put into > ftp:://atmos.dar.csiro.au/netcdf/hld/ > > It is no problem to keep up-to-date copy in this ftp directory, but perhaps > it would make more sense for you to contact me when you are ready to do > substantial work on FAN to ensure that the version you have is the latest and > is stable. Yes, thanks, we'll do that. By the way, I'm about half-way through reading an interesting paper from Supercomputing94 that we should probably reference in any FAN/netCDF paper: An Efficient Abstract Interface for Multidimensional Array I/O Kent E. Seamons and M. Winslett An abstract and link to a Postscript file are available from: http://www.computer.org/p3/seamons.html --Russ