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>Organization: PNNL >Keywords: 199606120126.AA17210 Connor, > Thanks for your rapid reply! I have a summer student working with me, > Brian Ermold, and he is currently using my mail account. We are running > ncdump.exe and ncgen.exe on a Pentium running Win95. We have downloaded > both the older 16-bit versions and the 32-bit versions. We also have > nctest.exe, but I'm not really sure of its use. > > Ultimately, we will be using the Matlab mexcdf interface on the Pentium. > I'n not sure if you'll remember, but I had some difficulty using the mexcdf > interface with the Mac version of Matlab. This is all taken care of now > though, the Mac version of mexcdf works great now. Of course, once I got > that working I was moved from the Mac platform to a Win95 platform on this > new Pentium. So back to square one... > > Before using the mexcdf interface, I wanted to have a means of validating > its performance, so I asked Brian to create an ascii dump of an existing > netcdf file. I told him we could verify the consistency of ncgen and > ncdump by feeding the output of ncdump back into ncgen, ultimately creating > a netcdf file duplicating the original content. We have tried to do this > for a couple of netcdf datafiles and have not had any luck. In one case we > get a "string to long" error. From the line number indicated in the error > message, it seems to correspond to an attempt to read a string 1440 > characters long. In another case, we get an "unable to parse" message. > The line indicated does not look suspicious to me. Everything looks > syntactically correct, quotes are properly closed, delimiters seem fine, > etc.. > > I will have Brian ftp the ncdump generated output to you, if you would > provide us with a destination. Russ, thanks again for your assistance. Try using anonymous FTP to put it in the incoming/russ/ directory of ftp.unidata.ucar.edu. If this doesn't work, I'll have to wait until sour system administrator does whatever else is needed to permit anonymous downloads. --Russ