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[netCDF #GNJ-233071]: convert NetCDF to ascii or excel format?

Thank you David,

That is odd, I had not expected an installer error.  I will investigate 
and fix what needs fixed on our end for the future. Have a great day,

-Ward

On 7/17/13 9:55 AM, David Fairley wrote:
> New Client Reply: convert NetCDF to ascii or excel format?
>
> actually, i took a screen shot at the point it failed because i was going to 
> whine about it.  should be attached.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Unidata netCDF Support [mailto:address@hidden]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2013 8:54 AM
> To: David Fairley
> Cc: address@hidden
> Subject: [netCDF #GNJ-233071]: convert NetCDF to ascii or excel format?
>
> Good morning David,
>
> I'm glad you were able to get it to work, and I hope you don't mind a quick 
> follow up question.  I'm responsible for the Windows port of the netcdf 
> libraries and utilities, and I am curious about what happened when it failed 
> to work.  Did you receive an error message of some sort, or did it silently 
> fail?  My development environment is Windows 7, 64-bit so I am curious to 
> figure out what went wrong.
>
> Thanks for your time, have a great morning,
>
> -Ward
>
>
> On 7/16/13 5:17 PM, David Fairley wrote:
>> New Client Reply: convert NetCDF to ascii or excel format?
>>
>> Russ,
>>
>> Thanks.  Took a while.  For some reason it wouldn't work on my Windows 7, 
>> 64-bit machine, but I have a virtual machine running Windows XP, and it 
>> worked there.
>>
>> David
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Unidata netCDF Support [mailto:address@hidden]
>> Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2013 12:46 PM
>> To: David Fairley
>> Cc: address@hidden
>> Subject: [netCDF #GNJ-233071]: convert NetCDF to ascii or excel format?
>>
>> Hi David,
>>
>>> I have a climate data file in NetCDF format that I'd like to convert
>>> to either ascii or excel format.  I've given the ol' college try to
>>> figuring out how to do it.  I've run across reference to a program
>>> called ncdump, which would probably work for my purposes, but unless
>>> I'm making a mistake, it seems like a lot of work to extract and use.
>>> I was hoping the I could find a reasonably simple solution.
>> Here's a little more information on ncdump and alternatives:
>>
>>     http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/netcdf/docs/faq.html#converttotext
>>
>> Depending on your platform, installing ncdump might be more painless than 
>> you think.  Binary distributions of netCDF that include the ncdump utility 
>> are available for Windows, MacOS-X, and many popular Linux distributions.
>>
>> For Windows, you could use one of the prebuilt packages available here:
>>
>>     http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/netcdf/docs/winbin.html
>>
>> For MacOS-X, try installing the latest version of netCDF from one of the 
>> package management programs such as macports.org, fink, or homebrew.  For 
>> Linux, you can get netCDF from your OS repository using yum, dpkg, adept, 
>> rpm, or others.
>>
>> If you decide you need to build ncdump from source, it's usually not too 
>> hard, and we can answer questions about how to get around problems you may 
>> encounter.
>>
>> --Russ
>>
>> Russ Rew                                         UCAR Unidata Program
>> address@hidden                      http://www.unidata.ucar.edu
>>
>>
>>
>> Ticket Details
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>> Ticket ID: GNJ-233071
>> Department: Support netCDF
>> Priority: Normal
>> Status: Closed
>>
>>
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>> Ticket ID: GNJ-233071
>> Department: Support netCDF
>> Priority: Normal
>> Status: Open
>> Link:
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>> ewticket&ticketid=22409
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> Ticket Details
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> Ticket ID: GNJ-233071
> Department: Support netCDF
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> Status: Open
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> Ticket Details
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> Ticket ID: GNJ-233071
> Department: Support netCDF
> Priority: Normal
> Status: Open
> Link:  
> https://www.unidata.ucar.edu/esupport/staff/index.php?_m=tickets&_a=viewticket&ticketid=22409



Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: GNJ-233071
Department: Support netCDF
Priority: Normal
Status: Open