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John, Oops, I see I made a small change to the ncdump sources since you sent your support query, and another developer here made a change to ncdump.c as well, so it's possible one of those changes made it impossible to reproduce the error you are seeing. So if you are rebuilding with HDF5-1.8.3, please also get the current ncdump sources. I'm also addressing the other problems you mentioned with ncdump -v, in particular handling special characters in variable names with CDL escapes. I'll explain that in a subsequent response ... --Russ Russ Rew UCAR Unidata Program address@hidden http://www.unidata.ucar.edu Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: HKX-214469 Department: Support netCDF Priority: High Status: Closed