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> Date:    Wed, 09 Apr 1997 10:21:12 -0400
> From:    Arlindo da Silva <address@hidden>
> To:      address@hidden
> Subject: NetCDF & MFHDF
>
> Hi,
>
>   I heard that NetCDF and MFHDF (the NetCDF leg of HDF) were going to
> be unified for full interoperability. Are these plans still on? What is
> the time frame for that?
>
>   Thanks,
>
>      Arlindo.

If you didn't hear it from us, or from NCSA, then you can't really count on it.
If you heard it from us or from NCSA, then we already told you all we were
 willing to commit to publicly. :-)

UCAR/Unidata and NCSA's HDF group drafted a memo which basically stated our
intention to work cooperatively towards a file format our interfaces can
share. The idea is that if/when either of us has to come up with a *new* file
format, different from our current respective ones, that we will share
the format. This would reduce the backward compatibility and interoperability
features to a single feature.

I looked around for a public publication of that memo, and I have not found
one.

-glenn