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> From: "R. Bauer" <address@hidden> > To: address@hidden > Subject: Re: netCDF-3 now available > Organization: Institut fuer Stratosphaerische Chemie (ICG-1) H Reimar, > Do you know if IDL 5.0 will come whith netCDF Version 3. IDL 5.0 is already shipping, and uses netCDF 2.4.1, according to the features list at http://www.rsinc.com/idl/detail.html I expect eventually they will switch to use netCDF 3.x for its performance advantages. > Will I have problems with IDL and netCDF 2.4 reading netCDF Version 3 > files? No, the file format has not changed, so all files written with version 3 can be read with version 2 and vice versa. --Russ _____________________________________________________________________ Russ Rew UCAR Unidata Program address@hidden http://www.unidata.ucar.edu