Sourish, I wrote: > ... then I believe the resulting file will be OK, which you can check with > ncdump. but there still seems to be a problem with the file, because ncdump doesn't terminate, but instead just keeps looping after printing the line "data:". This is eithr a bug in ncdump or a remaining problem with the file with groups and inherited dimensions. I've verified that ncdump loops on a similar file created through the C API, and will use that to try to isolate and fix the problem. --Russ Russ Rew UCAR Unidata Program address@hidden http://www.unidata.ucar.edu Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: VCD-725374 Department: Support netCDF Priority: Normal Status: Closed