Re: nco-1.0 is released: netCDF Operators

Hi Charlie,

> I am pleased to announce the release of version 1.0 of NCO, which
> stands for `netCDF operators'.
> 
> NCO consists of nine command line operators for netCDF files:
> 
> ncks ncrename ncra ncea ncrcat ncdiff ncwa ncecat ncflint
> 
> These operators work on generic netCDF files and perform rote tasks like 
> renaming, concatentation, hyperslabbing, averaging, interpolation, and
> differencing. The documentation is nearly complete.

Congratulations on the release of NCO 1.0.  It looks like a very useful
package. 

I've taken the liberty of including a version of your announcement in the
netCDF "What's New" page at

   http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/staff/russ/netcdf/whatsnew.html

and also adapted your announcement into a brief description of NCO that
I've included in the netCDF page on "Software for Manipulating or
Displaying NetCDF Data" at

   http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/staff/russ/netcdf/software.html

Please let me know if these look OK to you; I'd be happy to incorporate
any changes you suggest.  In particular, I've included your email
address in the brief description, but you may want me to take this out so
that people will have to at least look at the User's Guide before asking
you questions about the package.

Also, now that NCO is released, you may want me to delete the older
versions of ncks and ncrename that are still part of our contributed
software collection at 

   ftp://ftp.unidata.ucar.edu/pub/netcdf/contrib/

The NCO package is now comprehensive enough that I think referring to
your FTP site and documentation from our software web page is a better
way to make sure users get the latest version and updated documentation,
rather than keeping copies here of individual utilities.

Thanks again for your contributions.

--Russ

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Russ Rew                                         UCAR Unidata Program
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