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>From: Alan Imerito <address@hidden> >Subject: netCDF variable, attribute and dimension limits >Organization: Centre for Water Research, University of Western Australia >Keywords: 200010130749.e9D7mx428799 netCDF variable dimension limits Alan, > Thank you for your suggestions below. They corrected the error we were > getting on our unix platform (Compaq Tru64). However, I still have this > problem porting the code to Win32 (NT platform). The error is the same > as before for the unix platform (i.e., as per [2] below). > > For Win32 I downloaded the following > > ftp://ftp.unidata.ucar.edu/pub/netcdf/contrib/win32/netcdf-3.5.win32make.ZIP > and unzipped it under the impression that - being v 3.5 - it had the same fix > as the the download you suggested previously (which was 3.5-beta4 - > ftp://ftp.unidata.ucar.edu/pub/netcdf/netcdf-beta.tar.Z). > > Questions: > 1. The v 3.5 for Win32 does not appear to correspond with v 3.5-beta of > the unix version; it seems to be closer to v 3.4. Is this correct - > i.e., that the version numbers for Win32 packages and unix don't > correspond? Yes, unfortunately that is correct. The Win32 version was created from an intermediate version between 3.4 and 3.5 so it doesn't have all the fixes that are in the current 3.5-beta5 distribution. We'll correct this soon, either by renaming the Win32 distribution to the appropriate earlier beta version or (preferably) by bringing it up to date. We plan to make a final 3.5 release in the next couple of weeks, so we hope to be able to get these releases back in synch by then. > 2. Is there an available version for Win32 which has a fix for the > problem? Not yet. > > I shall attempt to compile for Win32 using source code from netcdf-beta.tar.Z > next. We'll be interested in any problems you encounter. We mostly develop on Unix platforms here, so testing and refitting to Win32 and other platforms typically occurs late in a release cycle. --Russ _____________________________________________________________________ Russ Rew UCAR Unidata Program address@hidden http://www.unidata.ucar.edu