[netCDF #QXN-890248]: netcdf 3.6.3

Hi Paul,

> I've just noted a quirk with the latest 3.6.3 netcdf release - it's
> described below..
> 
> Basically, ncdump (3.6.3) complains when non [A-Za-z] characters are the
> leading characters in a file name.. This behaviour was not a symptom
> of 3.6.2 (as per below)..
> 
> I haven't tried the latest 4.1.1 release, however thought it best to report
> this..
> 
> The host machine is a SUSE10.2 (x86_64) version - the 3.6.2 binaries were
> compiled by me (sourced from unidata), the 3.6.3 are system-installed..
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> P
> 
> ***
> 3.6.3:
> dur041> ncdump -h 
> ~/Shared/Temperature/GISTEMP/100506_GISTEMP-corrected-smooth1200_188001-201003.nc
> ncdump: name begins with space or control-character: 1
> dur041> which ncdump
> /usr/local/bin/ncdump
> dur041> /usr/local/bin/ncdump -h
> ...
> netcdf library version "3.6.3" of Feb 24 2009 13:21:02 $

Thanks, his was a bug in 3.6.3 and 4.0 that has been fixed in 
subsequent releases:

  
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/netcdf/docs/known_problems.html#ncdump-numeric-filename

The 4.1.1 release fixes other bugs as well, and provides just the netCDF-3
libraries if you don't have HDF-5 installed.  But making the one-line change
described at the above URL will also fix the problem in 3.6.3.

--Russ



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



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Ticket ID: QXN-890248
Department: Support netCDF
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed