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Hi Dave, You could download the netcdf-3.6.2 universal binary from this web page: http://www.ral.ucar.edu/~rcabell/ Then you can unpack that file with Stuffit Expander and it will create a folder named "netcdf-3.6.2" containing a subfolder "bin" with the ncdump program. You can just copy or drag that to wherever you want, for example your /Users/Dave/bin/ directory. If you have a G4 or G5 rather than Intel Mac, you can do the same with this Mac G4 binary: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/downloads/netcdf/binary/darwin_8.8-power_macintosh/netcdf-3.6.2.tar.gz Also, building the netcdf 3.6.2 source distribution works fine on an up-to-date Mac. Just download the source distribution from ftp://ftp.unidata.ucar.edu/pub/netcdf/netcdf.tar.gz and unpack it. If you only need ncdump but not the Fortran or C++ libraries, for example, then from the src/ subdirectory containing the "configure" file, run the following command: ./configure --disable-f77 --disable-cxx --disable-examples [ lots of output ... ] make check [ lots more output, including some warning messages, but tests succeed] sudo make install [ this will install executables under /usr/local/bin and other things under /usr/local ...] --Russ Russ Rew UCAR Unidata Program address@hidden http://www.unidata.ucar.edu Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: RLD-473689 Department: Support netCDF Priority: Normal Status: Closed