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>To: address@hidden >From: Chris Webster <address@hidden> >Subject: netCDF exiting when att not found >Organization: NCAR/ACD >Keywords: 200408162316.i7GNGsaW014607 netCDF You wrote: > > You must be using a netCDF version 2 interface if it's exiting on > > error. The default for netCDF-3 interfaces is to just return an error > > code for any error, not to exit. > > It is using the C++ interface..... > > The ncopts fixes the problem. OK, but the official C++ way to do this is by using the auxiliary class NcError: http://my.unidata.ucar.edu/content/software/netcdf/cxxdoc.html#SEC18 --Russ