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> To: address@hidden > From: "John A. Dutton" <address@hidden> > Subject: Re: 20001031: netCDF for Mac >Organization: College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, The Pennsylvania State >University >Keywords: apple, macintosh, g4 Hi John, > I am interested in whether there is any software available to use > netCDF data effectively on a Mac G4 running OS 9. I have > VirtualWindows running on the machine, so I suppose I could go that > route but it is both morally and ethically reprehensible. > > Another option would be to sweep the cobwebs out of the c-compiler > and try to get the c version running. Some sort of a native version > would be preferable, all things considered. I just ported netCDF, including the C, C++, and Fortran interfaces, to MacOS X (public beta), and the results will be in netCDF 3.5, to be released in the next week or so. However that doesn't help you much with MacOS 9. Fortunately, others in the community have done the work for that version of the OS. See: http://crga.atmos.uiuc.edu/~sergey/soft/index.html for netCDF version 3.4 for both PowerPC (including G4) and 68K. Chuck Denham (USGS) has also ported and made available a version of the netCDF libraries for Macs: ftp://crusty.er.usgs.gov/incoming/NetCDF-Mac/ If you just need applications that run on the Mac and can access and visualize netCDF data, there are several possibilities: Ferret: http://ferret.wrc.noaa.gov/Ferret/ GrADS: http://grads.iges.org/grads/ ncBrowse: http://www.epic.noaa.gov/java/ncBrowse/ WebWinds: http://webwinds.jpl.nasa.gov/ (Java, so platform-independent) NOeSYS: http://www.researchsystems.com/noesys/ Eventually you will be able to use Unidata Java applications to analyze and visualize netCDF data on a Mac, but currently only prototypes are available and the Java on MacOS 9, is not the required 1.2 ore later that's needed for those. --Russ _____________________________________________________________________ Russ Rew UCAR Unidata Program address@hidden http://www.unidata.ucar.edu