Hi Max, The daily snapshot from ftp://ftp.unidata.ucar.edu/pub/netcdf/snapshot/netcdf-4-daily.tar.gz finally has a fix for the ncdump problems with char array members of a compound type, for both attributes and variables. It was a bit more than a bug fix, as the code to handle this case was actually missing. Please let us know if you discover more bugs. I suspect we haven't found the last one :-). --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