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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.
Hi,In the "classic" netCDF file format (netCDF-3), a variable without a record dimension cannot be larger than 2GB. This limitation has been giving me a lot of headaches lately. I know that netCDF-4 is supposed to solve this problem, but there are a number of reasons why netCDF-4 is not a good option for me (no Java write support, for one).
I could be missing something, but it seems like a very small change to the netCDF-3 file format would solve this problem. The only requirement would be changing the variable size info in the netCDF header from a 32 bit to a 64 bit int (and, of course, updating the version info in the header).
I'm guessing that I'm not the only netCDF user who has run into this problem and who is also reluctant to move to netCDF-4. Any possibility that Unidata could make these changes?
Cheers, Joe S.
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