Dierk, > Pass along to any OS X people and help me fill in my APPLE OS X SCI-TECH > INDEX.. > > http://cluster.sage.wisc.edu/OSX/OSX-Sci-Index-Atmos.txt Thanks, that looks useful. From your mention of netCDF with the Absoft Fortran compilers, readers might draw the mistaken conclusion that netCDF can only be built with Absoft Fortran. You might want to mention that it can also be built with g77 and f2c: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/staff/russ/netcdf/INSTALL.html#macosx --Russ