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Nan,
> The file I am trying to amend is fairly large and
> took 2 days runtime to produce so I am not eager
> to rerun it in order to fix the problem. If you
> can think of an interim solution that would be
> great. Otherwise I will just make a prominent README file
> explaining the incorrect dimension labels.
You could try using the contributed package "ncrename" by Charlie Zender,
available from
ftp://ftp.unidata.ucar.edu/pub/netcdf/contrib/ncrename-1.3.tar.gz
Also try using the netcdf-2.4 beta release, if you aren't already.
> BTW - we are still planning on a NetCDF workshop
> January 17th at 10am-12noon. Does that still
> work for you?
Yes, I'm planning on it, though I won't get to preparing for it until
January.
--Russ