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Re: 960112: 2 suggestions (NetCDF)

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  • Subject: Re: 960112: 2 suggestions (NetCDF)
  • Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 13:47:58 -0700
> Subject: 1996112
> 2 suggestions (NetCDF)
> 
> >To:       address@hidden (NetCDF Support)
> >cc:       address@hidden (Bernhard Wagner)
> >From: Bernhard Wagner <address@hidden>
> >Organization: .
> >Keywords: 199601122048.AA24329

Hi Bernhard,

> I have another couple of suggestion to make:
> 
> When I use ncgen -c, a c-source is created, that, compiled, generates
> the binary netcdf-file. I think it would be nice, if this c-program
> would give the generated file the name plus extension ".nc", since
> this is the standard extension for netcdf.
> 
> (
> the reason why I'm interested
> in this is, that the following happened to me:
> starting off with a cdl-file example_1.cdl, I call ncgen -c >example_1.c.
> Then, I compile this file and give it the name example_1. When I run
> example_1 the generated file destroys the example_1-executable, of course.
> But it took me a while to find this out.  :-)
> )

Thanks for the suggestion.  I'll try to get this fixed soon.

> The other suggestion is, when I call 
> 
> ncdump -f plane2x3.nc
> 
> I get the error message
> 
> *** ../bin/ncdump: invalid value for -b option: plane2x3.nc
>                                       ^
>                                       |
> 
> which should be
> 
> *** ../bin/ncdump: invalid value for -f option: plane2x3.nc

... and thanks for that one too, which I've just fixed.

--Russ

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Russ Rew                                           UCAR Unidata Program
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