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Felicity, > To: address@hidden > From: Felicity McAllister <address@hidden> > Subject: NetCDF for Fortran 77 > Organization: UCAR/Unidata > Keywords: 200008140628.e7E6S8N11103 The above message contained the following: > I'm new to all of this. I want to write fortran programs that can read and > write NetCDF files. I'm using fortran 77 on a UNIX platform and Fortran 90 > on windows. So preferably, I will compile fortran 77 code for both. I > have found an example that uses libnetcdf.a and netcdf.inc. I have not > been able to find a release on the unidata site that includes the > libnetcdf.a file. Can you help me please??? > kind regards, > Felicity > Felicity McAllister > Postal: c/o Australian Institute of Marine Science > PMB No 3, TMC > Townsville, 4810 > Australia > > Email: address@hidden > > Phone: 61-7 - 47534 381(Direct) > Fax: 61-7 - 47725 852 I'm not sure what you're asking. We do provide some binary netCDF releases that contain the file "libnetcdf.a" for UNIX systems. They are available at <ftp://ftp.unidata.ucar.edu/pub/binary/> under the appropriate system subdirectory. We, typically, don't provide such releases for Wintel systems because: 1) we don't have many such systems in-house; and 2) the plethora of development enviroments on Windows all seem to have their own, unique ideas about how to call C code from Fortran. Thus, a netCDF user on a Wintel system typically installs from scratch using the source code. Please feel free to contact me if you need further clarification or help. Regards, Steve Emmerson <http://www.unidata.ucar.edu>