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Re: 970825: "Where Is NetCDF Used?" -- Proposed Addition

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  • Subject: Re: 970825: "Where Is NetCDF Used?" -- Proposed Addition
  • Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 14:56:10 -0600
>To: address@hidden
>From: address@hidden (Chuck Denham)
>Subject: "Where Is NetCDF Used?" -- Proposed Addition
>Organization: U.S. Geological Survey
>Keywords: 199708251815.MAA13461

Chuck,

>         Please do put the stuff where it will do the most good.
>         I would indeed appreciate your putting together a draft entry on
> the toolbox, and I will think about the words needed to distinguish the
> packages.
>         One thing that should be mentioned is that the toolbox comes with a
> NetCDF Browser, which we use extensively.  (I have been following the
> ongoing coordinate-system debates closely and hope to make the browser
> somewhat smarter so far as plotting is concerned.)

I sent my last message suggesting adding an entry to the NetCDF Software
page just before I got your request to add a description to that page.
I hope that explains why my note may have seemed a bit out-of-context.

Anyway, I've drafted a slightly expanded entry for the NetCDF Toolbox at

  http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf/software+.html#NC4ML5

Please let me know if you have any additions or changes.

Especially let me know if it's OK to have mentioned your name for more
information about the package or whether you'd prefer to leave that out.
I have also included links to the nc4ml5.html page, a MATLAB-5 page, and
a link to your example.

Finally, I'm curious whether you know if anyone has tried to use your
NetCDF Toolbox with "Octave", a freely available MATLAB-compatible
package described at

  http://www.che.wisc.edu/octave/

that might make your package accessible to users (like us) who don't
have MATLAB.  (It's possible Octave hasn't caught up to MATLAB-5 yet.)

--Russ