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John Osborne wrote: > > John: > > We found the problem just after I sent my last message to you. I was > setting the unlimited dimension for my axis variables but I was not > setting the dimension of my other variables that used the unlimited > dimension to unlimited. Does that make any sense? Let me try again. My > file has dimensions of time, latitude, and longitude. The time axis is > unlimited and I correctly set the time protovariable to have an unlimited > axis. I have another (measured) variable, slp, with dimensions of lat, > lon, and time. I was NOT setting the dimension for the time axis for this > protovariable to unlimited also. Does that make sense? Thanks for your > help, I KNEW this had to be my problem and not yours. > > oz yes that makes sense, and explains why you saw Dimension.equals() instead of UnlimitedDimension.equals()