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961111: NCDUMP for VMS

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  • Subject: 961111: NCDUMP for VMS
  • Date: Mon, 11 Nov 96 09:49:40 -0700
Chris [got you name right this time ;-) ],

>Date: Sun, 10 Nov 1996 22:17:53 -0800 
>From: Christopher Russell <address@hidden>
>Organization: Queensland Insitute of Natural Science 
>To: Steve Emmerson <address@hidden>
>Subject: Re: 961104: NCDUMP for VMS 
>Keywords: 199611031108.AA09802

In the above message you wrote:

> Thanks for the VMS info.  However... I've been trying to get the whole
> package to work.  Unfortunately, I've had no success.
>
> Obviously, you have to create NETCDF.OLB first.  Unfortunately, my
> system doesn't know anything about "ucx$rpcxdr.h".

Does your system have any RPC/XDR support at all?  If so, where is the
XDR header file and where are the XDR functions?

> Of course, on all
> our VMS systems (Alpha's and Vaxes) the include construction <> does
> not work with the local header files ("" are needed).  In fact all
> combinations of LOCAL_NC.H* files did not work for LOCAL_NC.H.

Odd.  I built the VMS-beta release on both VAX/OpenVMS and Alpha/OpenVMS
systems and didn't have any problems with the `#include <foo.h>'
construction (whose validity is mandated by the C standard).  Here are
the details of the the systems:

    VAX/OpenVMS:

        OS: OpenVMS V6.2
        CC: cc/decc (DEC C V5.2-003 on OpenVMS VAX V6.2)

    Alpha/OpenVMS:
        OS: OpenVMS V6.2
        CC: cc/decc (DEC C V5.0-003 on OpenVMS Alpha V6.2)

What are your systems?

>
> I had absolutely NO success with creating the libraries.  Things are
> such that I would at least like NCDUMP to work, but, of course, I
> couldn't even create this.
>
> I've been using VMS for more than 10 years as a C and FORTRAN
> programmer, so this isn't the problem, I've just had no success
> getting the NCDF package to work.
>
> In fact, I have a HUGE (!!!) favour to ask.  I need to access some
> data that we have in NCDF format (on the VAX) and so that I can at
> least utilise the data, would it be possible to get a UUENCODEd or
> MIMEd version of a VMS NCDUMP executable (preferably native Alpha, but
> Vax would even do) emailed to this account, or have available for FTP.
>
> Let us know.  I'm quite happy to fiddle a bit more with the library
> stuff, but because this is actually a research project that needs me
> to read the NCDF files, I'd be forever grateful for an executable of
> NCDUMP (VMS) to be made available.

I've made a BACKUP save-set of the Alpha/OpenVMS installation available
at the following URL

    ftp://ftp.unidata.ucar.edu/pub/binary/alpha-vms/netcdf-2_4_3.bck

It doesn't contain the source files and directories.

Please let me know if this helps.

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Steve Emmerson   <address@hidden>