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.
To fix the constraint problem in the 4.1.3 netcdf distribution. Obtain the following tar file: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/staff/dmh/netcdf-4.1.3-fix.tar and replace the files in the distribution with those in the tar file. Let me know if you are still having problems. However, there is still a performance bug that will cause problems with large variables (notably server failures or timeouts). =Dennis Heimbigner Unidata
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