Karen, If that last example solved your problem, but it's missing or wrong in the documentation, please let me know so I can fix the documentation. We are still making tweaks to the 4.2 distribution, so it won't really be released for a day or two, and I can get a fix into the documentation pretty easily at this point. --Russ Russ Rew UCAR Unidata Program address@hidden http://www.unidata.ucar.edu Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: FIU-947657 Department: Support netCDF Priority: Normal Status: Closed