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Re: The significance of trailing blanks in attributes...

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  • Subject: Re: The significance of trailing blanks in attributes...
  • Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 09:25:42 -0700
Roland Schweitzer wrote:
It seems what is needed is an official way to set the size (larger than the minimum needed for the info already there) of the netCDF header so that there is room to add attributes to extremely large files without re-writing the entire file. 

Roland


you can do that in the C library, see the minfree parameter in nc__enddef :

http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/docs/netcdf-c/nc_005f_005fenddef.html

If anyone needs it in the java library, I can add.