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Whoops, I forgot to CC: support-netcdf ... ------- Forwarded Message Date: Fri, 28 Apr 1995 10:17:23 -0600 From: Russ Rew <address@hidden> To: address@hidden (Mike Folk) cc: address@hidden, steve Subject: Re: netCDF for Power Challenge Hi Mike, > Due to a large number of user requests, we are in the process of porting > HDF to the SGI Power Challenge. We have finished the HDF interface part > and are working on the netCDF interface. Albert Cheng in our group thinks > he know what to do with the Unidata netCDF code to make it work, but of > course would rather not change the Unidata code any more than necessary, > especially if you guys are working on it. > > Has your group already done the porting of netCDF to the Power Chanllenge? > If so, we would like to use your version. If not yet, we would like to > work with you on the porting. We understand that this work might not fit > in with your resources, priorities, etc., but want to offer to collaborate > in any way we can. We've done the port and have an alpha-release of it available, while we work on getting netCDF 2.4 ready for release. Here's the note on it, from <URL:http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf/known_problems.html#irix64> IRIX64 The current release of the netCDF package will not work under IRIX64, which is a 64-bit operating system. We have developed a test version of the netCDF package that appears to work correctly -- so far. This version is not guaranteed to work under any other operating system (and might still have problems under IRIX64). If you absolutely must have a working netCDF package under IRIX64 and can't wait for the next release (which will be version 2.4) then you can try using the IRIX64 test version. It's available via the same mechanism as the current netCDF distribution -- but its name is irix64-alpha.tar.Z. Be advised that we won't support this version under any other operating system: if you have a problem with it on a non-IRIX64 platform, we don't want to hear about it. We're making this version available solely to help those users with an immediate need. Notwithstanding the above caveat, we are interested in feedback from IRIX64 sites that are attempting to use this test package. You can get it from <URL:ftp://ftp.unidata.ucar.edu/pub/netcdf/irix64-alpha.tar.Z> - --Russ ------- End of Forwarded Message