Hi Reimar, > we recognized the development of netCDF3.6.0-beta3. > > > It would be fine if we could get added the plus sign (+) to the allowed > signs for netCDF variables. It's now in netCDF3.6.0-beta6, available from ftp://ftp.unidata.ucar.edu/pub/netcdf/netcdf-beta.tar.gz --Russ