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> Organization: Southern Regional Climate Center, Louisiana State University Hi Kevin, > I enjoyed your talk on Tuesday. It is always interesting to learn > of future enhancements to good products. Thanks. > I was especially interested in the perl interface to the netCDF distribution. > At the SRCC, we had identified a perl interface as a project area and were > planning on developing links between perl and netCDF. > > I would like to obtain a beta version of the interface and would be willing > to test/critique the interface for you. We have several people that use > both perl and netCDF in developing applications on a daily basis. Our > main data archives use netCDF and we have thousands of netCDF files that can > benefit from the perl interface. > > Please tell us your preferred method for sending the product and we will > accomodate the transfer. netCDFPerl is freely available from the following URL: ftp://ftp.unidata.ucar.edu/pub/netcdf-perl/netcdf-perl.tar.Z Release 1.0 was announced to the netcdfgroup mailing list last Wednesday. There is now a separate mailing list for netCDFPerl questions and discussion. More information about netCDFPerl, including access to the README and manual page documentation and information about how to subscribe to the mailing lists, is available via a WWW browser from the netCDFPerl page at http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf-perl/ or from the netCDF page at http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf/ --Russ ______________________________________________________________________________ Russ Rew UCAR Unidata Program address@hidden http://www.unidata.ucar.edu