Re: 19991027: Solaris 7

Martin,

>Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 15:52:53 +0200
>From: address@hidden (Martin Ridal)
>Organization: .
>To: address@hidden
>Subject: Re: 19991027: Solaris 7
>Keywords: 199910251557.JAA00350

In the above message, you wrote:

> I had som truble with the building of netcdf on solaris 7.
> You told me to set the variables like this (see below).
> This seemed to help a little bit, the testing passed the 
> "nc_tesing" (where it failed before) but it did not pass
> the "nf_testing".

This indicates that the netCDF library and C interface are correct.  The
failure during nf_test-ing indicates a problem with the testing
procedure rather than the C library.

> You tell me it is nothing to worry about, but... The model
> I run (a 2-D atmospheric model developed at NCAR) is written 
> in fortran90 and it crashes when it is trying to read indata
> which is stored as netdcf.
> When reading, it can read scalars and one vector. A second 
> vector and matrices can not be read.
> May the problem be due to the model?

It's possible.  How big is the file to be read?  Can you send it to me?

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