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Roy, > To: address@hidden > From: Roy Deal <address@hidden> > Subject: netCDF for MSDOS > Organization: North Carolina State University > Keywords: 199701101713.KAA27123 In the above message you wrote: > I am interested in using netCDF for a project that I'm working on. > I downloaded the version for MSDOS, but it isn't as recent as the > version in ftp://ftp.unidata.ucar.edu/pub/netcdf/netcdf.tar.Z, which is > version 2.4.3. The MSDOS version that I downloaded is 2.3.2. Is there > a compiled version of netcdf-2.4.3 that will run on an MSDOS platform? Sorry, but there isn't a netCDF 2.4.3 binary distribution for DOS available. (Building a DOS binary distribution is both painfull and error-prone.) Looking over the changes, however, it doesn't appear that the newest version is necessary for DOS: almost all of the changes relate to UNIX (e.g. changes to the configuration mechanism, link options, etc.). There were no bug fixes. Therefore, I suggest you simply use the 2.4.2 binary distribution. (A list of the changes can be found in the file CHANGES in the 2.4.3 distribution.) > If not, then do you know what tools I would need to build the > executables for MSDOS version 6.2...Microsoft C++ and Fortran compilers? > Could I use Watcom's C++ and Fortran compilers to build the executables > in MSDOS verson 6.2? You could possibly use the above environment to build version 2.4.3 of the netCDF distribution on a DOS system. I can't be more certain because we don't have such an environment. The file INSTALL specifies the DOS environment that we used to build the netCDF package and how we did it. -------- Steve Emmerson <address@hidden>