Simon,
You have my sympathies. Maintaining obsolete code is rarely fun.
The home-page of the netCDF-Perl package
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf-perl/#home
has a hyperlink to the README file
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf-perl/readme.html
The README file indicates that the netCDF-Perl package is based on version 2 of
the netCDF package.
The netCDF-Perl package has a manual-page that describes how to use it in terms
of the netCDF-2 API (certain names are, necessarily, changed but the API is
functionally identical). The netCDF-2 package is obsolete but can be downloaded
at
ftp://ftp.unidata.ucar.edu/pub/netcdf/guide-2.4.3.ps.Z
This package contains the manual-page for the netCDF-2 library,
"netcdf-2.4.3/src/doc/netcdf.3". There is also a user's guide for the netCDF-2
package, which can be downloaded at
ftp://ftp.unidata.ucar.edu/pub/netcdf/old/guide-2.4.3.ps.Z
You'll have to download the netCDF-2 package and read its manual-page or
download the netCDF-2 user's guide in order to understand the netCDF-2 API.
Once you've done that, the netCDF-Perl manual-page will tell you how the
netCDF-Perl API is trivially derived from the netCDF-2 API.
There is also a Perl script within the netCDF-Perl package that is used for
testing the Perl API. The pathname of the script, relative to the top-level
source-directory is "perl/test.pl".
For your convenience, I've attached the netCDF-Perl manual-page and test-script.
Regards,
Steve Emmerson
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Ticket ID: URC-325321
Department: Support netCDF Perl
Priority: Normal
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