[netcdfgroup] NetCDF-3 file format changes

Mario Emmenlauer mario at emmenlauer.de
Tue Feb 26 16:58:15 MST 2008


Hi,

I forgot the most funny one:

Mario Emmenlauer wrote:
> Dave Allured wrote:
>> Is the current Netcdf 3.6.2 software reliable with these in your experience?
> It is reliable if you stick to very strict constraints. I would actually
> rather say 'It works, but the constraints are not easy to enforce'.
>   - only one variable > 4GB per file, and this must be the last variable
>     in the file.
>   - no attributes stored for variables > 2GB.
>   - (does not apply to you if you only want 32bit types): use my fix from
>     the last mail then nc_byte and nc_short will work too.

  - When creating new files, use NcFile::Replace rather than NcFile::New
    even if the file does not exist, because NcFile::New ignores
    NcFile::Offset64Bits, so the files have no large file support.

Good night and good luck,

    Mario



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