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Good morning David, I'm glad you were able to get it to work, and I hope you don't mind a quick follow up question. I'm responsible for the Windows port of the netcdf libraries and utilities, and I am curious about what happened when it failed to work. Did you receive an error message of some sort, or did it silently fail? My development environment is Windows 7, 64-bit so I am curious to figure out what went wrong. Thanks for your time, have a great morning, -Ward On 7/16/13 5:17 PM, David Fairley wrote: > New Client Reply: convert NetCDF to ascii or excel format? > > Russ, > > Thanks. Took a while. For some reason it wouldn't work on my Windows 7, > 64-bit machine, but I have a virtual machine running Windows XP, and it > worked there. > > David > > -----Original Message----- > From: Unidata netCDF Support [mailto:address@hidden] > Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2013 12:46 PM > To: David Fairley > Cc: address@hidden > Subject: [netCDF #GNJ-233071]: convert NetCDF to ascii or excel format? > > Hi David, > >> I have a climate data file in NetCDF format that I'd like to convert >> to either ascii or excel format. I've given the ol' college try to >> figuring out how to do it. I've run across reference to a program >> called ncdump, which would probably work for my purposes, but unless >> I'm making a mistake, it seems like a lot of work to extract and use. >> I was hoping the I could find a reasonably simple solution. > Here's a little more information on ncdump and alternatives: > > http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/netcdf/docs/faq.html#converttotext > > Depending on your platform, installing ncdump might be more painless than you > think. Binary distributions of netCDF that include the ncdump utility are > available for Windows, MacOS-X, and many popular Linux distributions. > > For Windows, you could use one of the prebuilt packages available here: > > http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/netcdf/docs/winbin.html > > For MacOS-X, try installing the latest version of netCDF from one of the > package management programs such as macports.org, fink, or homebrew. For > Linux, you can get netCDF from your OS repository using yum, dpkg, adept, > rpm, or others. > > If you decide you need to build ncdump from source, it's usually not too > hard, and we can answer questions about how to get around problems you may > encounter. > > --Russ > > Russ Rew UCAR Unidata Program > address@hidden http://www.unidata.ucar.edu > > > > Ticket Details > =================== > Ticket ID: GNJ-233071 > Department: Support netCDF > Priority: Normal > Status: Closed > > > > Ticket Details > =================== > Ticket ID: GNJ-233071 > Department: Support netCDF > Priority: Normal > Status: Open > Link: > https://www.unidata.ucar.edu/esupport/staff/index.php?_m=tickets&_a=viewticket&ticketid=22409 Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: GNJ-233071 Department: Support netCDF Priority: Normal Status: Open