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Ian,
> All I have to worry about now is that all of the data is hyphens.. I
> expect I'll find out why, if not I'm afraid I'll be back! I'm sure I
> just need a drains-up on type conversion.
If the data are appearing in ncdump output as underscores ('_'), that's
the notation ncdump uses for fill values or missing data. It means that
the data was not written yet.
--Russ
Russ Rew UCAR Unidata Program
address@hidden http://www.unidata.ucar.edu
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Ticket ID: DXD-376053
Department: Support netCDF
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Status: Closed