NetCDF Version 3.6.1
NetCDF version 3.6.1 improves ease of installation and ensures files
will be of a known length. In addition, it fixes a few minor bugs, and
more tests are run by "make test".
Version 3.6.1 is available in source form as
a gzipped
tar file or compressed tar
file with
installation instructions.
Prebuilt binary versions are also available for some platforms.
Version 3.6.1 includes improved installation scripts, so that it
should install on most systems without the user having to set any
environmental variables.
This version of netCDF ensures that the length of netCDF files can
be determined from information in the file header. Previously,
there were two ways in which the length of netCDF files containing the
same information could differ. First, rewriting a value in a small
file could cause harmless extra zero bytes to be appended to the end
of the file, making it larger than necessary. Second, writing a file
using NOFILL mode (to avoid writing fill values for missing data)
could cause the file not to be padded to a multiple of four bytes, as
it is normally.
For more detailed information, see the new FAQ,
3.6.1 Release Notes,
and new documentation.
Please send reports of problems to support-netcdf@unidata.ucar.edu.
