Mike, The bug you reported needed a better explanation and documentation until we get version 4.0.1 released, so it's now described with the fix in an entry on our "Known Problems" web page: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/docs/known_problems.html#ncdump-numeric-filename Thanks for your persistence in getting the documentation improved ... --Russ Russ Rew UCAR Unidata Program address@hidden http://www.unidata.ucar.edu Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: MQV-638321 Department: Support netCDF Priority: Normal Status: Closed