FAN: new version

FAN version 2.0.1 has been installed in the netcdf contrib ftp area as
ftp://ftp.unidata.ucar.edu/pub/netcdf/contrib/fan.tar.Z

FAN provides a high-level interface to netCDF.

The most generally useful facility is provided by the following four utilities:
1. nc2text prints selected data from netCDF files.
2. ncmeta prints selected metadata from netCDF files.
3. ncrob reads data from netCDF files, performs some process on it (e.g.
   calculating mean) and then either prints the result or writes it to a
   netCDF file.
4. text2nc reads ASCII data and copies it into netCDF files.
   It can also create, modify and delete attributes.

The ftp file contains the document "Introduction to FAN Language and Utilities"
in both html and postscript forms.  The html form may be viewed as:
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf/fan_utils.html

What is New in Version 2?  The utility ncmeta is new.  There are significant
enhancements to the utility ncrob. It can now print results as well as write
them to netCDF files.  A number of bugs have been fixed.  Further details in
section headed "What is New in Version 2?" in the above document.

The utilities have been tested on the following platforms:
Cray Y-MP4E/464 running UNICOS 8.0.4.
DEC alpha running OSF1 V3.2.
DEC risc running ULTRIX V4.5.
DEC vax running ULTRIX V4.4.
HP 9000/715 running HP-UX A.09.05
IBM RS6000 running AIX 4.1.
Intel i386 running BSD/OS 2.1.
SGI mips IP20 running IRIX 5.3.
SGI mips IP26 running IRIX64 Release 6.1.
Sun sparc running SunOS 4.1.4.
Sun sparc running SunOS 5.5.

The ftp file also contains:
1. Interface to IDL. This has only been tested on an SGI platform.
2. Library of C functions, but no documentation.


Harvey Davies,  Scientific Visitor           E-mail: hld@xxxxxxxx
UCAR/Unidata Program Center                  Phone: (303) 497-8661
P.O. Box 3000                                Fax:   (303) 497-8690
Boulder, CO  80307-3000                      http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/


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