• The type created in the cdm_sea_soundings test can be examined by ncdump.
• (To get an ncdump which handles types, you must get the netCDF-4 snapshot distribution, as this capability has been added very recently).

bash-3.00$ ../ncdump/ncdump cdm_sea_soundings.nc
netcdf cdm_sea_soundings {
types:
  compound sea_sounding {
    int sounding_no ;
    temp_vlen temp_vl ;
  } // sea_sounding
  float(*) temp_vlen ; // variable length
dimensions:
        Sounding = 3 ;
variables:
        sea_sounding fun_soundings(Sounding) ;
data:

 fun_soundings = }

2007 Unidata NetCDF Workshop for Developers and Data Providers > Using NetCDF-4 Features, Part 2