Re: 950321: Solaris, nctest and C++, bleah

>Keywords: 199503211819.AA28912

Hi Paul,

> I am a bonehead.  I wiped out and started over and.... 
> amazingly, everything seem to work.
> 
> Things must have gotten scewed (by my own boneheadedness) in my old 
> distribution.

No problem, I'm glad it worked this time.

> I have another question, this one is short though (don't bother
> answering it if this is something I should post to the group.).
> 
> I am looking for a "generic" applications that will:
>       - read a generic netCDF file
>       - allow the user to get a list of the different variables
>       - do plotting of some variable vs. another variable
>       - do simple statistical analysis, mean, stddev., etc
> 
> I've been looking at the "NetCDF Operators and Utilities" (ncprogs.ps) 
> document and some of the software available free in "utilities.txt"
> (also on Mosaic I see).

I'd stick with what's in the utilities document, and view the WWW form:

    http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf/utilities.html

as it's got lot's more information if you follow the links and you can even
see what the output of some of the packages look like that way.  The
`ncopers' document is getting old and we haven't had the resources to do
much development, while others have produced some very useful packages in
the absence of ncopers.

> A lot of these packages go overboard.  I want something like simplistic
> like "ncview" that can do simple plotting and statistics on vectors,
> or matricies of data where user can just point and click.
> 
> Any off the top of your head?
> 
> I'm continuing my investigation of those in "utilities.txt"

I like the IDL package ncbrowse, but it requires that you already have IDL.
Others have spoken highly of the ACE/gr package, but I haven't used it yet.
Actually, I haven't used many of the packages that are described in the
utilities document, so if you decide to compare a few, I'd be interested in
your conclusions.

I maintain the utilities document and add new packages whenever I come
across them, but that doesn't mean there aren't more I'm not aware of.

Recently I've got wind of a couple more packages, but I haven't had time to
contact the authors yet to see what information is available.  When I do,
I'll add an entry in the "What's New" page.

--Russ