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20020422: netCDF Installation problem (cont.)

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  • Subject: 20020422: netCDF Installation problem (cont.)
  • Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 17:29:44 -0600
>From: okalinga <address@hidden>
>Organization: University of Alberta
>Keywords: 200204210635.g3L6Z0a03310 netCDF configure

Oscar,

>It looks like I have managed to install the netCDF; the lib/, bin/, include/, 
>and man/ directories, with their contents, were created in the netcdf/ 
>(parent) directory which contains the src/ directory too in which I was trying
>to run the "ncdump".

Sounds good.

>You can have a look at the content of install.log below.

Our previous interchange was in regards to building the netCDF, not
installing it.  Once things are built, the installation is a simple
step.  I have, therefore, deleted the installation log that you
attached.

>I have tried running the "ncdump" but it did not respond; I guess I don't know
>its usage

Simply running 'ncdump' should do nothing.  You can run 'ncdump -help'
and it will give you a short help.  To learn more about ncdump and
ncgen, please review the sections of the online netCDF manual:

netCDF HomePage
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf/

  NetCDF Documentation 
  http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf/docs.html

    NetCDF-3 User's Guide for C

    online HTML
    http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf/guidec/

    10 - NetCDF Utilities 
    
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf/guidec/guidec-15.html#HEADING15-0
    10.4 ncdump
    10.5 ncdump

>OR I have not linked my application (I don't know how to link) 
>because after "make install" the instruction says: Try linking your 
>application.

The utilities 'ncdump' and 'ncgen' are standalone applictions that can
be used to quickly do certain things with, or in the generation of
netCDF files.

The netCDF is an API (Application Programming Interface) instantiated in
a library which you use to link applications that you write.

>Port the library to other platforms (I don't think this applies 
>for case where I want to use the software in the current platform).

This is for users that are thinking about building the netCDF on
a system that we havn't built on.

>Share data.
>
>Please let me know, together with the other items, how to use the "ncdump"; 
>e.g. how to input my netCDF file(s) & output ASCII file(s);

See the web pages referenced above.

>is it possible to 
>read multiple files at the same time, because I have a lot of them which need 
>to be  converted.

ncdump works on one file at a time.  This doesn't mean, however, that
you can't run multiple invocations of ncdump at the same time.

>Thanks,

No worries.

Tom