Re: NetCDF for MATLAB

> To: address@hidden
> From: address@hidden (Chuck Denham)
> Organization:  U.S. Geological Survey, Woods Hole
> Subject: NetCDF for MATLAB

Hi Chuck,

>         We have been busy developing and using a new NetCDF-3 MEXCDF
> interface for MATLAB-5 (now multi-dimensional!) on PowerMacintosh and Unix;
> a Win95 version is in the works.  All the arithmetic, logical, and
> subscripting operators in MATLAB can now be overridden, so I have also
> written a complete implementation of them for NetCDF objects, including
> dimensions, variables, attributes, and orthogonal slices.  We will be
> putting this stuff on our crusty.er.usgs.gov ftp site in the near future. 
> I will let you know when it happens.
>         Are you still treating the Macintosh as an orphan, or would you
> like to include at least the NetCDF C-Language library at the Unidata WWW
> site?  The source-code changes for NetCDF-3 on the Macintosh were minor
> once I understood the problem.  We have no <sys/...> header files, and I
> uncovered a bug in the MPW distribution of the "file.h" header file.  I
> would be happy to supply Unidata with the sources, plus a compiled version
> if you like.  I also have a MATLAB function for udunits.  Let me know.

Please send them!  We only treat the Macintosh as an orphan because none
of us had any Mac development experience or a development environment.
Just FYI, last week I succeeded in running an equivalent to "ncdump" on
my home Power Macintosh to read and dump a netCDF file, and it worked
fine, in 100% Java.  I now have my first Mac development environment:
Visual Symantec Cafe.

>         Meanwhile, we continue to be fervent users of NetCDF.  Your efforts
> are much appreciated.

Thanks, your feedback is really appreciated here.

--Russ

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Russ Rew                                         UCAR Unidata Program
address@hidden                     http://www.unidata.ucar.edu