I am going to need a conversation here about this change. It is a major change and I am not sure, personally, if this is the proper way to do it. In the meantime, I would suggest you set use github (as suggested) to create a branch with those changes and do a push so we can look at it in detail. You can create the branch and then apply your existing patch to modify that branch. =Dennis Heimbigner Unidata Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: EXY-936604 Department: Support netCDF Priority: Normal Status: Closed