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>From: "Mathias Lundmark" <address@hidden>
>Organization: Renewable Energy in Sweden AB
>Keywords: 200209091248.g89Cmnj04821 netCDF FTP Windows

Mathias,

>Thanks for the answers, now I have a pretty good idea of how to work
>inside ncdump. However, my problem remains when it comes to start
>ncdump. I downloaded grads and ncdump.exe was included. Grads works
>properly but when I click on the icon for ncdump.exe it closes down
>immediately. I use PC with the operation system Windows 2000
>Proffesional as I said before. Do you think I need a compiler and if
>this is the case, which one do you recommend? Why do I need a compiler?

Forgive me for being Windows ignorant if the following does not make
any sense.

ncdump is not an interactive program.  You specify options you want on
the command line and then hit the Return key to get it going.  I don't
know how these kinds of programs are supposed to work under Windows, but
it strikes me that simply clicking on an icon for the executable would
not do what is needed.

Did you try opening up the MS-DOS window available in Windows 2000 and
running ncdump.exe "by hand" from it?  I answered an email from another
user on Windows on how to use ncdump.exe, and this is the way it worked
for him.

In the meantime, while you experiment with running ncdump.exe by hand,
I will dig up someone who runs under Windows routinely and ask him how
things should work.

Tom

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>Skickat: den 18 september 2002 00:21
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>Ämne: 20020912: NetCDF files (cont.)
>
>>From: "Mathias Lundmark" <address@hidden>
>>Organization: Renewable Energy in Sweden AB
>>Keywords: 200209091248.g89Cmnj04821 netCDF FTP Windows
>
>Hi Mathias,
>
>Sorry to take so long to get back to you on this.
>
>>Thank you for the answer on my last question.
>> 
>>I get NetCDF-files from this NCAR reanalysis data. The only thing I
>want
>>is to get the NetCDF files data human readable, and transfer the data
>to
>>ascii / excel. But so far I have not succeed.
>
>You should use the ncdump routine that is part of the netCDF package.
>It lists out the contents of a netCDF file in ASCII format.  Use of
>ncdump is described in:
>
>Unidata HomePage
>my.unidata.ucar.edu
>  Software
>  http://my.unidata.ucar.edu/software/index.php
>    netCDF
>    http://my.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/index.php
>      NetCDF Documentation 
>      http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf/docs.html
>
>      online HTML 
>      http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf/guidec/
>
>      10 - NetCDF Utilities
> 
>http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf/guidec/guidec-15.html#HEADIN
>G15-0
>      10.5 ncdump
>
>>I have succeed to make graphs in NCbrowse and GRADS so far but nothing
>>else.
>
>If you downloade a binary for the netCDF, you will have ncdump available
>to you.
>
>>I have tried this ncdump but it doesn't work for me. The program close
>>as soon as I try to click and open the program.
>
>ncdump needs to be run from the command line.  Try opening up an
>MS-DOS window and running it by hand.  After looking through the
>online manual for the netCDF (URLs above), you should get a good idea
>of how to run ncdump.
>
>>The computerexpert we have was here today and he said that we need
>>Microsoft Visual C++.NET to be able to view this files. Is it true???
>
>No, this is not true.
>
>>We have downloaded your software.
>>We have Windows 2000 professional and not driving linux.
>>I want the most simple way to get this data. Maybe I will learn to use
>>Grads or something similar good in the future but I don't need it for
>>the moment
>
>ncdump should be the simplest way to do what you are after.  Let's first
>work on getting ncdump working for you.
>
>>Hopefully I will not have more questions after this one.
>
>No worries.