Hi Kevin, I've created an entry on the "Known Problems with the netCDF 3.6.0 Distribution" web page that mentions the problem you discovered: http://my.unidata.ucar.edu/content/software/netcdf/docs/known_problems.html#cdf2-bug I'm going to send something out to the netcdfgroup mailing list later today about this problem. If it's convenient, I would appreciate if you could look over the short entry on this problem and let me know if you think it's accurate and clear enough to convey the problem to other netCDF users. If you have any changes to suggest, please reply. Thanks! --Russ