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>Yes, this is an opportunity to point out that it is possible to create >netCDF files with netCDF library calls that ncdump and ncgen cannot handle >correctly, and to explain why...... > CDL names for variables, attributes, and dimensions may be any > combination of alphabetic or numeric characters as well as `_' and `-' > characters, but names beginning with `_' are reserved... Perhaps a way to loosen this requirement is to enclose all tokens in double quotes and then use the "" scheme to get an embedded double quote. I can see the possible utility of using a more general set than ascii for such names, eg. rich text format.
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