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5.4 ncgen
From a CDL text file input, the ncgen command-line utility can generate a binary netCDF file, or a C, Fortran, or Java program.

 

 

ncgen has options to specify what kind of output to generate. 

ncgen [-b] [-o file.nc] [-k file_format] [-l output_language]
      [-x] file.cdl

  [-b]             binary output as a netCDF file, uses .nc extension on input
  [-o file.nc]    like -b except output netCDF to specified filename
  [-k]             kind of netCDF file for output
  [-l c|f77|java]  language of program generated to standard output
  [-x]             don't write fill values for missing data in output

  file.cdl         name of input CDL file

 


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