Re: 20001011: netcdf 3.4, f90, digital unix (cont.)

>cc: address@hidden
>From: "Henry LeRoy Miller, Jr." <address@hidden>
>Organization: Institut fur Stratospherische Chemie (ICG-1)
>Keywords: 200010111001.e9BA1Z409434 netCDF 3.4 f90 DEC

Hi Henry,

> In regards to my earlier message about an early netcdf.f90 interface 
> file and netcdf 3.4, I believe I've solved the problem.
> 
> It appears that I now have a functioning interface on my Digital 
> workstation.  The crux of the problem was in the way that the 
> netcdf.f90 interface file defined the dimension of an assumed size 
> array, as displayed in the following example.
> 
>       Note the specification for dimension in this example.  The use of
>       colon (:) or asterisk (*) are the only differences in these examples.
> 
>       Works on AIX, but not on DEC:
>        INTEGER FUNCTION  NF_INQ_VARDIMID   (NCID, VARID, dimids)
>          integer,                       intent ( in) :: NCID
>          integer,                       intent ( in) :: VARID
>          integer,         dimension(:), intent (out) :: dimids
>        end function NF_INQ_VARDIMID
> 
> 
>       Works on Linux and DEC:
>       INTEGER FUNCTION  NF_INQ_VARDIMID   (NCID, VARID, dimids)
>          integer,                       intent ( in) :: NCID
>          integer,                       intent ( in) :: VARID
>          integer,         dimension(*), intent (out) :: dimids
>        end function NF_INQ_VARDIMID
> 
> 
> Initially, I had a copy of the file from the AIX, with the first 
> format.  The file on the Linux machine had the second format.  Both 
> files were the same byte-size, but with a different character in 
> these type dimension statements.  Now that I've compiled the second 
> file, my programs appear to get the correct dimids.

Thanks for the fix.  We've included it in what will be available as the
next release.

--Russ

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