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Re: 970404: netCDF library

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  • Subject: Re: 970404: netCDF library
  • Date: Fri, 04 Apr 1997 08:23:54 -0700
>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

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