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> From: address@hidden (Chris Webster) > Subject: netCDF 3 > To: address@hidden Hi Chris, > This may actually go somewhere else, but I was reading an units > attribute from a file generated with the old netCDF interface, with the > new interface. It told me the length of the attribute was 128, when actually > it was 4. Is this a known, or do want more details or the file? That sure sounds like a bug, though no one else has reported anything like it yet. Can you make the file available to us or demonstrate the problem with a small example? And if you send it to "support@unidata,ucar.edu", it will get someone's attention even if I'm abducted by aliens before tomorrow ... Thanks. --Russ