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So I did a hexdump -C on the bad file and the characters "HDF" only appear twice: once in the header magic number and once as lower case in an attribute constant. Both as expected. Since HDF does not otherwise appear, my speculation is that when the object is read, the RAF position is wrong. =Dennis Heimbigner Unidata Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: RDP-163061 Department: Support netCDF Java Priority: Normal Status: Open =================== NOTE: All email exchanges with Unidata User Support are recorded in the Unidata inquiry tracking system and then made publicly available through the web. If you do not want to have your interactions made available in this way, you must let us know in each email you send to us.