Re: 971117: netCDF-4

Ken,

> >It turns out Glenn Davis discovered a way to support files larger than 2
> >Gbytes within the current file format, so you don't have to wait for
> >netCDF 4.  The changes to support this will be in the 3.4 release, but
> >if you want to try them now, we have a beta release at
> >
> >  ftp://ftp.unidata.ucar.edu/pub/netcdf/netcdf-3.4atd.tar.Z
> >
> >that has the necessary changes.
 ...
> Thanks, Russ.  This is really what we need.  I have some data sets that are
> 5-10 GB.  We can handle files that size pretty easily now with 23 GB disks
> and DLT tapes.  I do most of my analysis in IDL, so I will send a note to
> RSI and request that they implement 3.4 as soon as it is available.  Any
> idea when that will be?

Well, it's always hard to schedule unanticipated problems, but all the
development for version 3.4 is done.  What remains is testing and
release engineering.  I hope to announce version 3.4 in the next month,
but it may take a couple of months if we run into any hard problems.

--Russ