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1. I confirmed that the RAF has been positioned to zero because in the call to
H5header#private DataObject(long address, String who)
address=0 and who=null
2. Looking at the call stack, the file is being examined
for an attribute name "DIMENSION_LIST" which for a netcdf-4
file, contains the dimension scales names, which is more or less
the names of shared dimensions.
3. If DIMENSION_LIST is found, then the code calls "makeAttribute"
with the claim: "// this reads in the data"
Needs more exploration.
=Dennis Heimbigner
Unidata
Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: RDP-163061
Department: Support netCDF Java
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed
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