Porting to DG Aviion

• To: ggranger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
• Subject: Porting to DG Aviion
• From: Russ Rew <russ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1991 09:04:56 -0600

> I am trying to install netcdf on a Data General Aviion under
> DGUX 4.32.  Has anyone does this before, and would they be
> willing to let me in on how they did it?  I seem to be stuck
> on defining the XDR / IEEE infinity values for floats and 
> doubles.  For all I know that's just the beginning...

You shouldn't be too concerned with getting these infinity values right.
Although there are some programs in the distribution in netcdf/extrema/
designed to help determine these values, there is actually no guarantee of
the existence of values with the required property that XDR maps the value
to/from IEEE infinity.  Now that netCDF has better support for
user-specified fill values, use of the default fill values should not be
necessary.  Nothing in any of the test programs or utilities will depend on
whether the XDR_D_INFINITY or XDR_F_INFINITY are defined correctly.

--Russ

• References:
  • Porting to DG Aviion
    • From: Gary Granger (x5689)