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Due to the current gap in continued funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), the NSF Unidata Program Center has temporarily paused most operations. See NSF Unidata Pause in Most Operations for details.
>Yes, this is an opportunity to point out that it is possible to create >netCDF files with netCDF library calls that ncdump and ncgen cannot handle >correctly, and to explain why...... > CDL names for variables, attributes, and dimensions may be any > combination of alphabetic or numeric characters as well as `_' and `-' > characters, but names beginning with `_' are reserved... Perhaps a way to loosen this requirement is to enclose all tokens in double quotes and then use the "" scheme to get an embedded double quote. I can see the possible utility of using a more general set than ascii for such names, eg. rich text format.
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