NetCDF on a Mac

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• Subject: NetCDF on a Mac
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• Date: Thu, 26 Aug 93 10:33:09 -0600

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>From: jimw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Jim Watt)
>Date: Wed, 25 Aug 93 14:44:26 -0800
>Subject: Re: NetCDF on a Mac 
>Organization: . 
>Keywords: 199308252144.AA14596 

>Shengping Ma of Sciex Corporation, Thornhill, Ontario, Canada just reported
>the following regarding the problem with NetCDF on a Mac:
>   
>   I checked NetCDF file I/O in file.c this morning and modified a few lines
>   and it worked.
>   The changes are very simple ( if you know what to look for ):
>   I basic followed those #ifdef DOS_FS lines in file.c
>   and did the same thing by add #ifdef MAC_THINK lines,
>   except the following:
>   #ifdef DOS_FS
>   #define SEP '\\' /* this separates path components on DOS */
>   #endif
>   
>   What I added are:
>   #ifdef MAC_THINK
>   #define SEP ':'
>   #endif
>   
>
>This looks entirely right to me - that's the path separator for Mac
>filesystems.  Here's the context diff for the test I ran here:
>
>*** file.c      Wed Aug 25 14:38:07 1993
>--- file.c.ORIG Wed Aug 25 14:36:13 1993
>***************
>*** 26,34 ****
>  #ifdef DOS_FS
>  #define SEP '\\' /* this separates path components on DOS */
>  #endif
>- #ifdef MAC_THINK
>- #define SEP ':'  /* This separates path components on a Mac */
- - #endif
>  #ifndef SEP
>  #define SEP '/' /* default, unix */
>  #endif
>--- 26,31 ----
>
>I don't think *anybody's* maintaining the Mac port at this point.
>Shengping may come as close as anyone, but I know Sciex wouldn't be
>thrilled if she were volunteered for the job!  Meanwhile, this fix
>gets the AIA NetCDF mass spectrometry group out of a nasty bind, and
>I thought you'd like to see the result, since you heard about the
>problem.  Can this be added to the distributed code?  The modifications
>do not cause any problems on SunOS 4.1.3.  I don't know whether the
>Mac code now runs the entire test suite, but since Shengping is Cc:'d
>on this note, I'll ask:  Shengping, does the whole test suite ("make
>test" for Unix) now work on the Mac?
>
>Jim
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