971014: netcdf 3.3.1: no unlimited dimension is 0 not -1?

John,

>Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 16:26:18 -0700 (PDT) 
>From: "John R. Tannahill" <address@hidden>
>Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
>To: address@hidden
>Subject: netcdf 3.3.1 
>Keywords: 199710132326.RAA15105 

In the above message, you wrote:

> I am running a fortran code on an sgi origin multiprocessing machine, where
> uname -a gives:  IRIX64 turing 6.4-root-1263875500 06162259 IP27.  I just
> installed version 3.3.1 of netcdf.  I have a chunk of code as follows:
> 
>       call Ncop_Rd (ncid_co, const_infile_name)
>  
>       call Ncinq (ncid_co, ndims, nvars, natts, recdim, ierr)
> 
>       if (recdim .eq. -1) then
>         has_rec_dim = .false.
>       else
>         has_rec_dim = .true.
>       end if
> 
> It appears that zero is being returned when there is no unlimited dimension.
> I changed the first line of the if test to:
> 
>   if ((recdim .eq. -1) .or. (recdim .eq. 0)) then,
> 
> and things work fine.  The version 3 netcdf documentation says that it should
> return a -1.  Is this a known bug?

That bug wasn't known at all.  Thanks for reporting it.

I'll fix it and incorporate the fix in the next release.  In the
meantime, I suggest that you code as follows:

    if (recdim .lt. 1) then

This will work regardless of the bug.

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Steve Emmerson   <http://www.unidata.ucar.edu>