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Don, > The following changes were required to get 2.4 running under > Windows NT 3.51 using Visual C++ 2.2 and Fortran Powerstation 1.0. The > '*.mak' files provided are for use within these systems. I haven't tested > everything, but the code does pass nctest, ncdump tests, and ncgen tests. > > I have provided a patch file for some of the changes and a uuencoded gzip'd > tar file for major changes and additional files required. I have not tried > to create nmake files that will work outside of these systems. I've incorporated your changes along with a few others into a netCDF 2.4 beta2 release, which I'll be announcing later today, but it's already available on FTP. There was one change I had to make that I think you may want to know about. I moved your changes to libsrc/local_nc.h to libsrc/local_nc.h.in as well, because the former is regenerated from the latter as part of the configure process that creates platform-specific Makefiles on Unix systems. If these changes are not in local_nc.h.in, then someone who gets the distribution and builds it on a Unix system first before trying it to make it on Windows NT will have the local_nc.h file with the Windows NT changes in it overwritten, so things won't work right. Incidentally, in acknowledging your help in the release notes, I wrote: New platforms supported: ... * Windows NT (thanks to Tomas Johannesson, National Energy Authority, Iceland and Donald Denbo, Pacific Northwest Laboratory) But I notice your home page lists your institution as "Battelle Marine Sciences Laboratory". If you have a strong preference, I'll make sure it reads that way. --Russ ______________________________________________________________________________ Russ Rew UCAR Unidata Program address@hidden http://www.unidata.ucar.edu