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Re: netCDF under MS-DOS

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  • Subject: Re: netCDF under MS-DOS
  • Date: Thu, 4 Dec 1997 12:31:49 -0700
> >To: address@hidden
> >From: Kay Kossowan <address@hidden>
> >Subject: wanted: version of netCDF for GNU-C (MS-DOS)
> >Organization: Free University of Berlin, Institute of Space Science
> >Keywords: 199712041307.GAA17332
>
> Hello,
>
> I had read in the mailing archive following things:
>
> > With netCDF 2.4, we provide support for the "DJGPP" development
> > environment.  DJGPP is a port of the GNU C development environment to
> > MSDOS, freely-available from:
> >
>
> My problem:
> I need urgently a netCDF-version for the GNU-C-Compiler on the MS-DOS
> platform. I had looking for a version in the packages-archive but I
> could find the Borland-version only.
> Can you tell me, where I can find the GNU-C (MS-DOS) version? Thank you
> very much.
>
> Sincerely, Kay.

The netcdf-2 general releases had support for building using DJGPP,
which is 32-bit GNU-C environment for MS-DOS. The last netcdf-2
release is still available as
ftp://ftp.unidata.ucar.edu/pub/netcdf/netcdf-2.4.3.tar.Z

I don't know of anyone who has built netcdf-3 on MS-DOS, using GNU-C
or otherwise. There are contributed makefiles for building on NT or Windows
95 using the Microsoft development environment.

We would be happy to help you figure out how to build the current release
(netcdf-3.4atd.tar.Z) on your platform.
This would probably be a better idea in the long run than continuing to
write code against the netcdf-2 interfaces.

-glenn