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Re: 970922: problem with nccreate on IRIX 6.2 using netcdf3.3.1

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  • Subject: Re: 970922: problem with nccreate on IRIX 6.2 using netcdf3.3.1
  • Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 12:55:53 -0600
>To: address@hidden
>From: address@hidden (Ethan Alpert)
>Subject: problem with nccreate on IRIX 6.2 using netcdf3.3.1
>Organization: .
>Keywords: 199709221820.MAA25471
>
>
>
> Greetings,
>
>       I have an application that uses the netCDF 2 routines. I
> read in the NetCDF 2 C Translation Guide:
>
>       "It is not necessary to rewrite programs that use the version 2 C"
>       "interface, because the netCDF-3 library includes a backward"
>       "compatibility interface that supports all the old functions,"
>       "globals, and behavior."
>
>       This does not appear to be true with my IRIX6.2 workstation.
> The following call:
>
> NetCreateFileRec: 374  id = nccreate("new.nc",NC_NOCLOBBER);
>
> worked fine with 2.4.1 but gives me the following with 3.3.1:
>
> nccreate: filename "new.nc": Permission denied
>
> The file gets created but the permissions are hosed:
>
> [chiquita] /data/src/ni/src/ncl 86> ls -l new.nc
> - ----------    1 ethan    gp             0 Sep 22 12:14 new.nc
>
> Any idea how I should proceed?
>
> Thanks,
>
>       ethan alpert

Ethan:

Check the process 'umask'.

-glenn