20030729: netCDF General - Linux - software download

>From: "Alan Scheinine" <address@hidden>
>Organization: ?
>Keywords: 200307291310.h6TDAtDX023577 netCDF download

Alan,

>Institution:  CRS4
>Package Version: V3.5.1-beta11
>Operating System: Linux
>Hardware Information: Intel Pentium
>Inquiry: After logging-in, I tried to download
> netCDF Source Code, V3.5.1-beta11 (netcdf-3.5.1-beta11.tar.Z)
>The web browser shows that it is working
>but nothing arrives.
>I tried both netscape and Mozilla,
>the same problem.

My first inclination is to advise you to use FTP directly.

>The problem may  be our firewall but that
>would be a very difficult problem to resolve.
>The netscape browser shows that the download
>link becomes an ftp server,

This is correct.

>but I am unable
>to access the ftp server with ncftp (because,
>I assume) I must get the software while
>logged-in.

I don't understand this comment unless you mean that you think
you must be logged onto the web site to do the download.

>At the present time our cluster of Linux
>machines use a recent gcc and a recent PGI,
>both of which result in an error when compiling
>netcdf version 3.5.0 , so I need to be able to
>obtain 3.5.1.  How?

From a Linux xterm window, try the FTP/ncftp:

ftp ftp.unidata.ucar.edu
  <user> anonymous
  <pass> "Alan Scheinine" <address@hidden>
  cd pub/netcdf
  binary
  get netcdf-3.5.1-beta11.tar.Z
  quit

The FTP/ncftp should work as long as your machine has both forward
and reverse name lookup; we block others to cut down on DOS attacks.
If DNS does not support forward and reverse name lookup for your
machine, try doing the FTP/ncftp from a different machine.  If
the problem turns out to be your firewall, you should get your
system administrator(s) involved.

Tom Yoksas