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> Dear Ed, > > > > >Well this will not work. Visual FORTRAN has it's own, proprietary > >build system, and we don't support that. So you will not be able to > >build the netCDF library within visual FORTRAN, and that includes > >the examples as well. > > > >You will be able to develop code that calls netCDF, you just won't > >be able to build the netCDF examples unless you cope with the visual > >fortran environment and figure out how to build them. > > > >It doesn't matter where the .mod file is, as long as visual fortran > >knows where to find it. There will be a way of setting directories > >to search in the properties window of visual fortran for your > >project. > > > Ok, well that explains that..... > > > > > > >Sorry, what I should of asked was: are you installing netCDF? Or > >netCDF already exists on your machine and you are trying to use it? > > > Well, I guess not installed - I think I am confused about that > part. I don't think I > am understanding the manual when it comes to installing it. > > > > > > >Doesn't IDL already have the capability to read netCDF files? I > >don't use IDL, but a quick google shows me that it's supposed to be > >able to read netCDF already. > > > Ok, as is typical, I discovered this yesterday, but it reads it in > using a macro, > and I then have limited control, and worse yet, have to do a bunch of > time wasting > stuff to get it in, and then when I shut it down, have to do the same > time wasting stuff > when I open it back up. Someone recommended not using the macro, but > to do that, > I need to understand what format the data set I created on the > website is. Which takes > me back to my original problem. Really, all I am trying to do is do a > header dump! > > The pc guy came yesterday, and got the precompiled version working - so we > were able to dump, but since I am not using unix, it is very hard to > cut off the > file creation without getting all the data too. But, progress. There is a -h option to ncdump which will cause it to only print out the header. Thanks, Ed Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: SNB-841615 Department: Support netCDF Priority: Normal Status: Closed