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Hi Chuck, Thanks for answering that Mac question on the netcdfgroup mailing list and making your Mac libraries available. I'd like to keep our information on Mac ports in the netCDF Frequently Asked Questions list, at http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf/faq.html#mac up-to-date. Currently, it points to some by now probably out-of date information that you supplied on how to build netCDF for Macs: Is netCDF available for the Apple Macintosh? Unidata doesn't test or maintain a version of netCDF for Macintoshes, but see the files in the directory ftp://ftp.unidata.ucar.edu/pub/netcdf/contrib/mac for some contributed notes and Macintosh MPW makefiles for porting netCDF to an Apple Macintosh. I'd like to replace this with a pointer to your new version that would instead say something like: Is netCDF available for the Apple Macintosh? Unidata doesn't test or maintain a version of netCDF for Macintoshes, but Chuck Denham (USGS) has ported and made available a version of the netCDF libraries for Macs. You can fetch cdflib.o and xdrlib.o for PowerMac via anonymous FTP from the directory ftp://crusty.er.usgs.gov/incoming/netcdf-mac/. The format is MacBinary II. If you are a Matlab user, try using the mexcdf function developed at USGS, which you can pick up by following the mexcdf link from Chuck's homepage at http://priapus.er.usgs.gov. You may be able to get libraries for PowerMac and Mac68K there as well. which is what I've put in a proposed updated FAQ at http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf/faq+.html#mac Is that wording OK with you? If not, can you suggest a satisfactory re-wording? Thanks! --Russ ______________________________________________________________________________ Russ Rew UCAR Unidata Program address@hidden http://www.unidata.ucar.edu