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>To: address@hidden >From: Tim Davis <address@hidden> >Subject: large files in NETCDF 3.4 under HPUX 11 >Organization: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. >Keywords: 200201231302.g0ND2Yx07542 netCDF 3.4 HP-UX 11.0 large files Hi Tim, With the help of our systems administrator, Mike Schmidt, I just created a 3 Gbyte netCDF file on our HP-UX system. Mike had to remake the file system on which I was testing, because the default is to only permit files less than 2 Gbytes. As Mike wrote: It looks like it must be enabled on a filesystem basis for both HFS and VxFS filesystem types. I just turned it on for /test on can now create files greater than 2GB. COMET has some documentation on doing this via the command line; http://www.comet.ucar.edu/strc/old_sac/info/GeneralInfo/Documentation/lg_files.html but it can also be done via the system admin tool SAM. The only flag I used on the compilation of the netCDF test program was "CFLAGS=+DD64", and on the new file system, everything just worked. I had originally built the library with the additional environment variable setting CPPFLAGS='-D_HPUX_SOURCE -w', but now I'm not even sure that was necessary. By the next release, I'll have this documented with the minimal flags necessary. By the way, another version of the HP-UX white paper on large file support is available from: http://devresource.hp.com/STK/partner/lg_files.pdf --Russ _____________________________________________________________________ Russ Rew UCAR Unidata Program address@hidden http://www.unidata.ucar.edu