Re: creating netCDF XDR files with HDF 3.3 Beta Release 1

• To: benno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Benno Blumenthal),
• Subject: Re: creating netCDF XDR files with HDF 3.3 Beta Release 1
• From: frank@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Frank Chen)
• Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1993 10:03:44 -0400

>While HDF 3.3 Beta Release 1 lets us read and write standard (XDR)
>netCDF files, it will not let us create them (according to the README
>file).  It would greatly enhance our ability to communicate with our
>colleagues who only have netCDF if we could create XDR netCDF files,
>too.  Could this feature be added?
>
Before NCSA add this feature, how about using ncgen with CDL to create
an empty XDR netCDF file, then fill the data using multi-file SDS
interface?(I've never done that). 

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