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Greg,
In the above message you wrote:
> Subject: one more thing...
> From: Trail <address@hidden>
> Organization: University of California, San Diego
> Keywords: 199509202121.AA24096
>
> My NetCDF::attget still crashes after I installed V 1.0.4, while everything
> else works fine.
>
> I have NetCDF v. 2.3 and Perl 5.001m.
>
> The line that crashes is:
>
> NetCDF::attget($ncid,$varid,"source_file",$source);
>
> All the arguments are correct. The variable which holds the returned value\
> ($source) doesn't have to be initialized somehow, like in the C interface,
> does it?
Try using a perl reference for the `source' variable:
NetCDF::attget($ncid,$varid,"source_file",\$source);
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Steve Emmerson <address@hidden>