Re: 950823: netCDF Questions (Windows support)

> 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

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--Russ

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Russ Rew                                           UCAR Unidata Program
address@hidden                              http://www.unidata.ucar.edu