Re: The significance of trailing blanks in attributes...

[John Caron <caron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Roland Schweitzer wrote:

> It seems what is needed is an official way to set the size (larger than 
> the minimum needed for the info already there) of the netCDF header so 
> that there is room to add attributes to extremely large files without 
> re-writing the entire file.
>
> Roland

you can do that in the C library, see the minfree parameter in nc__enddef :

http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/docs/netcdf-c/nc_005f_005fenddef.html

If anyone needs it in the java library, I can add.