Re: 971218: How to use netCDF on Windows95?

>To: address@hidden
>From: Shoji Makino <address@hidden>
>Subject: Q: How to use netCDF on Windows95?
>Organization: JEOL Ltd., Japan
>Keywords: 199712181219.FAA25060

Hi,

> I am a programmer work for JEOL Ltd.
> This company is a manufacturer of analytical instruments.
> 
> I would like to use "andi/MS" tool kit on Windows95.
> The tool kit uses netCDF V2.3.2, and provides source codes and makefile
> for various UNIX and MS-DOS.
> 
> I successfully build ftp.unidata.ucar.edu/pub/netcdf/contrib/win32/maks.zip
> to make DLL, but sample program of andi/MS shows run-time error as bellow:
> 
>   ncdimid: ncid 3: Invalid dimension id or name
> 
> I also try the following netCDF library from
> ftp.jasco.co.jp/pub/NetCDF/Win32DLL/netcdf-3.3a/bin/:
> 
>   *pre-compiled DLL(netCDF V3.3 from) 
>     --> same run-time error
> 
>   *pre-compiled static library (netCDF V2.4.1)
>     --> ncdimid: dim "group_number" not found
> 
> I can build netCDF V2.3.2 and run the sample program on HP-UX I expected.
> 
> I wonder if you give me any information to use such toolkit
> with latest version ofnetCDF library on Windows95.

I don't know anything about the sample program for andi/MS (it was
developed by someone else and never made available to us), so I cannot
duplicate the above error.

After you have installed the netCDF library, does the "make test" work?
That's what we use to verify whether the library has been built
correctly.  It runs a sequence of tests on all the netCDF interfaces.

The "Invalid dimension id or name" might arise from trying to call one
of the netCDF dimension functions with an invalid dimension ID, for
example trying to find the name of the fifth dimension in a netCDF file
that only had four dimensions.

Is it possible that the test file you are using to run the andi/MS test
is corrupted or truncated, making the test fail?

A more recent DLL for netcdf-3.3 is netcdf3.3Win32DLL.zip available
from:

   ftp://ftp.unidata.ucar.edu/pub/netcdf/contrib/win32/netcdf3.3Win32src.zip

so you might try that.

Sorry I can't be more helpful.

--Russ

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Russ Rew                                         UCAR Unidata Program
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