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>To: address@hidden >From: Wen Chen <address@hidden> >Subject: netCDF library >Organization: Tele-Communications, Inc. >Keywords: 199704040158.SAA12581 Hi, > I downloaded netcdf.tar.Z file and couldn't find the netcdf library. > Could you tell me if I downloaded the right file? The file you got from ftp://ftp.unidata.ucar.edu/pub/netcdf/netcdf.tar.Z is a "compressed tar file", which contains a packed version of several directories containing the source code and documentation files for netCDF. To unpack it, you need to use the "compress" and "tar" utilities on a Unix system, or some equivalent on PCs: % uncompress netcdf.tar.Z [now you have the larger file netcdf.tar] % tar -xvf netcdf.tar [now you have all the directories, and the directions for installing in netcdf-2.4.3/src/INSTALL] --Russ _____________________________________________________________________ Russ Rew UCAR Unidata Program address@hidden http://www.unidata.ucar.edu