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[netCDF #ISA-945290]: download netcdf utilities question

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  • Subject: [netCDF #ISA-945290]: download netcdf utilities question
  • Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 10:05:23 -0600
Hi Jim,

If you don't mind building from source and have a fairly recent
Unix-ish platform such as Linux, Mac OS X, or cygwin on Windows,
then you could get either netCDF-4.0 or netCDF-3.6.3, depending
on what you will be using ncdump for.

The recent netCDF-4 release has a version of ncdump that can handle
netCDF-4 files, but there aren't very many of those yet.  Also, to
build from source, you would also have to first install the HDF5
version 1.8.1 library.  However, if you get the netCDF-4.0 release
and build it without the configure option --enable-netcdf-4, it
will build the same version of ncdump as in tthe netcdf-3.6.3 release,
that will handle all "classic" netCDF files but not the new netCDF-4
format files.

If you don't want to build from source and you have one of the platforms
on which we build binaries, you can get and install a binary netCDF
package instead and use the ncdump in the bin directory:

  http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/netcdf/docs/netcdf-install/Binaries.html

--Russ

Russ Rew                                         UCAR Unidata Program
address@hidden                     http://www.unidata.ucar.edu



Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: ISA-945290
Department: Support netCDF
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed