Re: 971223: netcdf/solaris questions

Barry,

>Date: Mon, 29 Dec 1997 10:47:14 -0700 (MST) 
>From: Barry Schwartz <address@hidden>
>Organization: NOAA/FSL
>To: address@hidden
>Subject: Re: 971223: netcdf/solaris questions 
>Keywords: ?

In the above message, you wrote:

> Hey Russ:
> 
> O.K. Here is what I'll do. I'll put out a copy of the source code that
> gennet generated to read our metar data on our ftp area. Would you be
> willing to ftp the code and the data to your machine with Solaris? It
> will bomb with the call to ncvgtc.
> 
> Here is how to ftp:
> 
> ftp; 137.75.100.50
> user: XXXXXXXX
> password: XXXXXXXX
> 
> cd code
> 
> get readnet.for
> bin
> get 9736300000100o
> 
> When I run this under SUN OS no problem
> When I run this on Solaris I get a multitude of problems.
> I won't mention them all; just give this a try. I hope you have
> Solrais to try this on. As I mentioned in the earlier message, Solaris
> does not like character*1 or logical*1 declarations. When I replaced
> the call to ncvgtc with the nf_get_var_text I got it to work. By doing
> so, the variable statinname was redeclared to a character*5 confirming
> that Solaris cannot handle character*1 and neither can ncvgtc.
> 
> I hope you can reproduce the problem.

Unfortunately, I can't reproduce the problem on our Solaris System:

    $ uname -a
    SunOS laraine.unidata.ucar.edu 5.6 Generic sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-2
    $ pwd
    /tmp/netcdf-3.3.1/src/fortran
    $ f90 -o readnet -g -w  readnet.for ../libsrc/libnetcdf.a
    $ ./readnet 
     enter your input file
    9736300000100o
     STOP  
    $ ls core
    core: No such file or directory
    $

Try the above on your system.  Do you get the same thing?

> unfortunately, this renders gennet
> unusable until I change it to do netcdf-3. Although most things are backwards 
> compatable, they all are not on Solaris. I will need to rewrite gennet for 
> netcdf-3.
> 
>                  Barry

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