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-----Original Message----- From: Richard McDonald [mailto:address@hidden] Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 1999 7:21 AM To: John Caron Subject: RE: 19991022: netCDF in microsoft visual studio (Macros) Thanks for the reply, Ive got netcdf v3.5 working on VC++ v 6.0 (Under Windows 98) in an MFC application just fine(so far...). I did no modifications to the msoft.mak and when running the test in /nc_test i got no failures...My problem, Im embarrassed to say, was that i was not linking to the library in the project settings link tab. Also FYI, I was able to compile and run successfully an example program given in your support database - Subject: Re: 19990924: nc_inc_var of netcdf.... We are hoping to use netCDF as a common database for numerical models of flow and sediment transport in rivers. Thanks, rich -----Original Message----- From: John Caron [mailto:address@hidden] Sent: Monday, October 25, 1999 5:09 PM To: Richard McDonald Cc: support-netcdf Subject: RE: 19991022: netCDF in microsoft visual studio (Macros) sorry, i didnt see this second part of the question > > I was looking through the support archive and found this > message(below) > which is relevant to my question. I had the same problem the nmake /f > msoft.mak test. I do not have the cmp program which does the > comparison. > Could you tell me where I might get a copy? cmp is a Unix utility; I dont know of any equivalent that comes with NT. MKS sells a package that duplicates cmp and other unix utilities (like vi!). We use it for our testing (~$400). There might be some freeware out there also. > Otherwise it looks like I had success installing with MS V > C++ 6.0 under > Windows 98. thats good news. did you have to modify msoft.mak ?