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Oops, correction re netCDF-4 external data representation

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  • Subject: Oops, correction re netCDF-4 external data representation
  • Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 10:20:20 -0600
Greg,

I wrote, incorrectly, it turns out:

> Using XDR order for external data is the way we're currently doing it
> in netCDF-4.  One reason we did this was to simplify comparing the
> same data written on different platforms.

We're actually using native representations instead of XDR for
netcdf-4.  Sorry for the confusion.

--Russ