Hi,
The addition of a new package (David Pierce's ncview) to our collection of
user-contributed software and documentation related to netCDF provides an
opportunity for announcing the availability of the directory
pub/netcdf/contrib/ on ftp.unidata.ucar.edu. We have maintained this
collection of user-contributed software for some time but have neglected to
announce its existence on the netcdfgroup mailing list. I've appended a
text version of the document describing the current contents from
pub/netcdf/contrib/README. If you have a WWW browser such as Mosaic, you
can also access a hypertext version of this catalog from
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf/contrib.html
We're grateful for the generosity of the developers in making this software
available to the netCDF user community. Other contributions that meet the
criteria in the appended document are welcomed.
__________________________________________________________________________
Russ Rew UCAR Unidata Program
russ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx P.O. Box 3000
(303)497-8645 Boulder, Colorado 80307-3000
USER-CONTRIBUTED NETCDF SOFTWARE
Unidata makes available for anonymous FTP (in the pub/netcdf/contrib/
directory of ftp.unidata.ucar.edu) a collection of files of freely
available, user-contributed software and documentation related to the
netCDF library. Unidata hasn't necessarily tested this software and
makes it available as is. This catalog of user-contributed software is
available to World Wide Web clients from
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf/contrib.html or in text
form via anonymous FTP as the file pub/netcdf/contrib/README from
ftp.unidata.ucar.edu.
Criteria for software or documentation that is appropriate for the
user-contributed collection:
* General usefulness to a significant part of the netCDF community
* Small size
* Infrequent need for updates
* Free availability
Other netCDF-related software packages or utilities that do not meet
these criteria (for example large freely-available packages or
commercial software) are listed in
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf/utilities.html or in text
form via anonymous FTP in the file pub/netcdf/utilities.txt from
ftp.unidata.ucar.edu.
_________________________________________________________________
Here is what is currently available:
aix-sharable
Dan Packman's script that will convert "libnetcdf.a" to a
shared library on AIX (IBM RS6000). Also includes instructions
for relinking ncdump and ncgen to make them smaller.
borland/*
Ken Prada's contribution of compiled libraries for
MSDOS/Borland platforms, including XDR and netcdf libraries for
all four memory models.
cdl.el
Ata Etemadi's utility functions for GNU emacs, cdl-get-file and
cdl-put-region, that run input through ncdump or run region
through ncgen.
DavePack/*
David Steven's programs that convert netCDF data into AVS,
TECPLOT, PVWAVE, SPLUS, and NCAR GRAPHICS formats.
gennet.f
Barry Schwartz's program to generate a Fortran program to read
a netCDF file. It opens a specified netCDF file and generates
the necessary Fortran code to declare the corresponding Fortran
dimensions and variables and read all the data into the Fortran
variables.
mac/* Several ports to Apple Macintosh.
msoft-7.0
William Spencer's changes recommended to netCDF version 2.3 to
build the library and programs using Microsoft's C++/7.0
compiler.
nccat.c
Chuck Denham's program to concatenate two netCDF files along
their record dimension. The files must be identical in variable
names and dimensions. Each variable must have a leftmost
NC_UNLIMITED record dimension.
ncview.tar.Z
David Pierce's visual browser for netCDF data. Ncview is an X11
application that displays a 2-dimensional color representation
of single precision floating point data in a netCDF file. You
can animate the data in time (making simple movies), flip or
enlarge the picture, scan through various axes, change
colormaps, etc.
nc_float.c
Harry Edmon's interfaces to ncvarget and ncvarput that convert
(optionally packed) data to floating point, handling missing
data and units conversions.
tbl2cdf.c
Chuck Denham's program to convert a flat ASCII table to a
netCDF file. The program scans a flat ASCII table for the name
and most general data type of each column. It then creates and
populates a netCDF file with the data.
