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[#UQO-756644]: ncview

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  • Subject: [#UQO-756644]: ncview
  • Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 14:11:27 -0600
> Sir,
> 
> People like to say how primitive ncview is, but that is a virtue.  It
> makes it so easy to quickly look for gross errors in data, as you know.
> Thank you.
> 
> My email is both to commend you on a useful tool and suggest a feature.
> The feature I'd like is a way to display datasets other than floating
> point ones.  I've just generated some geographic files that describe our
> terrain.  If I could look at them, interpreting each byte as a small
> integer, I could verify that they look reasonable.  I wrote the tables
> using individual characters for the data to compress them to a
> reasonable size.   The color you assign would be meaningless, but I
> should see the outline of Alaska and some lumps where interesting things
> happen.  It is certainly a pain to verify that my netCDF file is
> properly generated now.
> 
> Lee Higbie
> 
> 
> --
> Lee Higbie,   HPC Generalist          +1-907-450-8688  (GMT-9 standard
> Arctic Region Supercomputing Center                  or GMT-8 daylight)
> 
> Mail:     UAF/ARSC, PO Box 756020, Fairbanks,  AK    99775-6020
> Physical: UAF/ARSC, WRRB 105-116, 909 Koyukuk Dr., Fairbanks, AK  99775
> 
> 64 d 51' 36.2" north        147 d 50' 46.9" west
> 
> 

Howdy Lee!

As we say on our software page for ncview:

The source may be downloaded from ftp://cirrus.ucsd.edu/pub/ncview/. For more 
information, please contact the author, David W. Pierce at address@hidden.

We often hear nice things about ncview from users at our annual netCDF workshop.

Thanks!

Ed




Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: UQO-756644
Department: Support netCDF
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed