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Hi Mike, > I just got an SGI power indigo workstation with a 64-bit R8000 CPU. I'm > having some trouble with the netCDF libraries. Everything seems to > compile, but the tests fail. If I compile in 32-bit compatibility mode, > the tests seem to work. I'd appreciate any ideas on where the problem > might be. The 64-bit R8000 didn't exist when we made our last release, so the netCDF software wasn't ported to that platform. Since then we've done a preliminary 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 our WWW document on workarounds for known problems in the current netCDF release at: <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 Rew UCAR Unidata Program address@hidden http://www.unidata.ucar.edu