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Re: 970219: OpenVMS

>To: "support" <address@hidden>
>From: "R.A. Warner" <address@hidden>
>Subject: problem solved (I think)
>Organization: .
>Keywords: 199702191910.MAA26945

Hi,

> I believe that I have some information that may be useful for your OpenVMS
> group.  

I'm forwarding this to our "group", Steve Emmerson.  We don't officially
support OpenVMS for any of our other software products and don't have
local access to an OpenVMS platform, but we try to incorporate fixes for
netCDF to make it work on OpenVMS, if users let us know what's needed.

> To recap I had compile problems encountered in building the mfhdf.olb
> library using make.com within the NCSA's HDF system
> OpenVMS.
> 
> I went to the unidata.ucar.edu site (used ip address 128.117.140.3)
> and got the vms version from the following directory
> pub/netcdf/VMS-beta.tar.Z This site is given in a readme. file within
> [.hdf4_0r2.mfhdf].  This is very similar to your [.hdf4_0r2.mfhdf.xdr]
> structure and the only error that I received was a "key not found" on
> a ucx$rpcxdr.h file.  I wrote to Mr.  Russ Rew at
> address@hidden and he thought that it might be within the
> NCSA's code.
> 
> We obtained a temporary license of DEC's TCP/IP product UCX.  After
> entering the license and installing the product (not configured) the
> "new" version of the UCAR's [...xdr] compiled!
> 
> It would appear that the unidata (...xdr) portion of HDF system is
> tied to the DEC UCX product, currently we use Wollongong TCP/IP
> products.
> 
> I suggested that NCSA might consider incorporating parts of the
> pub/netcdf/vms-beta.tar.Z structure into their HDF system, for it
> appears to have coded for the alpha/VMS more than previous versions.
> 
> I hope that this is useful.

Yes, thanks for taking the time to let us know what worked.

> Oh, someone said that there is a mailing list that I can be added to
> for UNIDATA upgrade notices, please tell me who to contact.

Instructions for adding yourself to the netCDF mailing list are at

   http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf/mailing-lists.html

or you can do it by filling in a short form at

   http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/mailing-list-form.html

--Russ

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Russ Rew                                         UCAR Unidata Program
address@hidden                     http://www.unidata.ucar.edu