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> Subject: 1995823 > netCDF Questions (Windows support) > Organization: Northwest Research Assoc., Inc. > Keywords: 199508232128.AA17986 Hi Jim, > We are starting a project in which we will collect a large volume of > various types of oceanographic data (probably using a PC running some > flavor of MS Windows as the data-collection controller) that we will > want to process and analyze on a variety of platforms, including > UNIX (SGI and SUN/SOLARIS) and MS Windows-NT. We are looking into > netCDF as our data base and data archive tool, but we're not sure if > it is useable on the Windows (3.1) and Windows-NT platform. Your netCDF > FAQ states that the package has been tested/run on MSDOS 5.0 - has it > been tested by anyone under Windows? If so, can you recommend any > particular compiler, and if necessary XDR source, for runnning under > the two Windows varieties (3.1 and NT)? I'll have to add this to our FAQ the next time I update it. At least one other organization has reported a successful port of netCDF to Windows NT, and several other people asked questions indicating they were interested in or attempting the port, but so far no one has provided the port to us. Apparently the port to Windows NT is not trivial. We will continue to make sure the new releases work on MSDOS, but we don't use Windows NT here yet, so we can't work on the port or even test it. The names of the people who have sent us messages indicating they were working on the NT port include: Jean-Louis Excoffier <address@hidden> Yuji Katsuyama <address@hidden> You might find out if anyone has completed the port and is willing to share their modifications by posting a query to the netCDF mailing list of about 400 netCDF users, using the address address@hidden You have to subscribe to this mailng list before you can post to it (due to recent spamming incidents). Instructions for subscribing are in http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf/mailing-lists.html --Russ ______________________________________________________________________________ Russ Rew UCAR Unidata Program address@hidden http://www.unidata.ucar.edu