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[netCDF #YWX-715485]: documentation

Hello,

You can find the older documentation at the following link: 
https://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/documentation/historic/netcdf-f90/index.html.
  It's a bit dated.  The reason the new documentation looks different is that 
we switched to doxygen for our documentation (from the old docbook 
documentation system).  Thanks for letting us know that the search box isn't 
functional; I'll talk with our web dev team and see if they know what's going 
on and we will get this sorted out.

Thanks again for letting us know, have a great day!

-Ward

> Dear Sir or Madam:
> 
> Online netcdf documentation seems to be very difficult to access now, in 
> comparison to the past. Previously, you could type in a command name in a 
> search engine and you would be directed to a clear and concise unidata page 
> with the command, the arguments, and their meanings and formats all laid out 
> for the user.
> 
> Now, if I search for ‘nf90_create’, say, I am directed 
> here<https://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/fortran/docs/>, and if I 
> click on the “netcdf fortran 90 interface guide” I am taken 
> here<https://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/fortran/docs/f90_The-NetCDF-Fortran-90-Interface-Guide.html>.
>  If I search for nf90_create in the search tab of that page, I get a response 
> of ‘no matches’. To answer a fairly simple nf90_create question today I had 
> to go quite a few searches down in the google search return and finally got 
> my answer from a ‘stackdump’ page.
> 
> I’ve been using netcdf for over 25 years, and the documentation has never 
> been this hard to navigate. Hell, I’d take a hard-copy manual right now. 
> What’s going on?
> 
> Regards,
> 

> 
> 
> 


Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: YWX-715485
Department: Support netCDF
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed
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