Re: Web FORMS interface to netCDF data?

• To: rsignell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Richard P. Signell)
• Subject: Re: Web FORMS interface to netCDF data?
• From: John M. Huddleston <jhudd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Wed, 21 Sep 1994 07:08:47 -0600 (MDT)

> 
> Is anyone working on a WWW FORMS interface to netCDF data?  Sure,
> Mosaic's Scientific Data Brows-o-rama is nice, but it would be
> great to be able to select and extract data, and perhaps return
> selected data as ASCII as well.
> 
> -- 
> Rich Signell               |  rsignell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> 
Rich,

There are two ways to view netcdf files with a www browser.

The ghostview program will display the meatdata characteristics.

You can establish a CGI interface that will execute a command
of your choice.  In order to this, however, you will newed to
establish an HTTPD daemon on your host system.


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