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>To: address@hidden >From: "Larry A. Schoof" <address@hidden> >Subject: netCDF 3.4a >Organization: Sandia National Laboratories >Keywords: 199802120012.RAA02262 Hi Larry, > When do you expect to make 3.4a the official released version? Soon, I hope. The only remaining task is to implement some Fortran interfaces corresponding to the new C tuning interfaces nc__create, nc__open, and nc__enddef. These "double-underbar interfaces" permit supplying hints about suitable chunk sizes and alignment for I/O that can make dramatic performance differences, in some cases, but no one who is not worried about performance needs to know about them. We have no other changes planned for version 3.4, except possibly for fixes that may be needed to address any unanticipated problems encountered in testing on numerous platforms before the official release. If you can get along without the Fortran double-underbar interfaces and the 3.4a version passes "make test" testing on the platforms in which you're interested, you can just use 3.4a. --Russ _____________________________________________________________________ Russ Rew UCAR Unidata Program address@hidden http://www.unidata.ucar.edu