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>To: address@hidden >From: address@hidden >Subject: HELP with CDF ver 2 >Organization: Chemistry department, Parma University >Keywords: 200203201941.g2KJfUa23323 Hi Dr. Mucchino > Dear sirs sorry to bother you, but I have a problem: in the past I > used to modify my CDF data by making a text file with NCDUMP > program, make all the modifications with a text editor, then use > NCGEN to rebuild the CDF file. I used the version 2 for the > compatibility with my old software. > Now after a couple of years I need to do it again but I was not able > to find the ncgen program in my hard disk: I downloaded a version > from the internet but it does not match my old NCDUMP and my > files (or I believe so), the files built with ncgen are then unreadable > by my programs and even by ncdump. Where can I find the original > NCDUNP and NCGEN programs for windows platform?? The netCDF version 3 ncdump and ncgen are still compatible, because the file format has not changed since netCDF version 1 and the format of CDL files has only had a couple of additions. For example "_" is now permissible as a representation of a missing value for data. So I'm surprised that a current version of ncdump won't read old netCDF files, since they are still in the same format. However, here is a compressed tar file containing the ncgen.exe and ncdump.exe from netCDF version 2.4.1 of April 15, 1996: ftp://ftp.unidata.ucar.edu/pub/netcdf/contrib/win32/netcdf-Win32.tar.gz After you unpack this, just look in the netcdf/bin/ directory. And here is a current version that contains the directory bin/ with current versions of ncdump.exe and ncgen.exe, in case you want to check if these versions work for you: ftp://ftp.unidata.ucar.edu/pub/netcdf/contrib/win32/netcdf-3.5.0.win32bin.ZIP --Russ _____________________________________________________________________ Russ Rew UCAR Unidata Program address@hidden http://www.unidata.ucar.edu