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970613: building using NAG f90

Steve,

>Date: 13 Jun 1997 15:14:49 -0500 
>From: "Steve Mauget" <address@hidden>
>Organization: USDA
>To: "Steve Emmerson" <address@hidden>
>Subject: Re: building using NAG f90 
>Keywords: 199706021417.IAA27579

In the above message, you wrote:

>       Our Indigo 2 is being backed up right now, but I'll try your
> test when it finishes. I have a question a couple of questions though
> regarding installing netcdf on a PC running NT 4.0. There is currently
> some resitance here to installing the SAS statistical software package
> on our SGI (it has something to do with $$$). But SAS is installed on
> my PC, so I'm toying with the idea of porting interim results from the
> SGI to the SAS on my PC. Problem is, gotta port it in a data format
> common to both the SGI and the PC. Have tried ascii files but these
> data records too big (241 x 241 matrix of real #s) for formatted
> output . That leaves something like netcdf. Two questions:
> 
> 1) I see netcdf has been tested on NT 3.51, but would it work on 4.0 too?

I don't know.

> 
> 2) If I did install netcdf on my PC, would it be necessary to have a high
> level language (i.e., like fortran Powerstaion ) installed also?
> That is, is there a way I could ncdump a netcdf file on my PC directly to a
> formatted text file like SAS expects?

You could use the ncdump utility to print-out a netCDF dataset.
Building ncdump only requires a C compiler.

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Steve Emmerson   <address@hidden>