Hi Max, You wrote: > Also, I get a segmentation fault from the line > res = snprintf(sout, PRIM_LEN, typ->fmt, *(char *)valp); > in function ncchar_typ_tostring. > Maybe because the terminating \0 is not getting through? Do you have a small test demonstrating this or was it just a string member of a compound type? I'd like to include it in my new more thorough test of ncdump on compound types and make sure I fix the right bug. Thanks. --Russ Russ Rew UCAR Unidata Program address@hidden http://www.unidata.ucar.edu Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: ODF-774270 Department: Support netCDF Priority: Normal Status: Closed