perl 5 interface for the netCDF API now available

• To: netcdfgroup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
• Subject: perl 5 interface for the netCDF API now available
• From: Steve Emmerson <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Wed, 07 Jun 1995 10:15:34 -0600

Greetings,

The Unidata Program Center is pleased to announce the availability of
netCDFPerl, an interface to the netCDF API for the perl utility.

Enclosed is the README file for netCDFPerl.

Enjoy!

Regards,
Steve Emmerson

--------Begin README

$Id: README,v 1.3 1995/06/06 16:29:06 steve Exp $

Greetings,

    This file briefly describes the netCDFPerl package.

INTRODUCTION
------------

    The netCDFPerl package is a perl extension for accessing netCDF
    datasets.  For example, the following netCDF actions:
    
        1.  Open dataset "foo.nc";
        
        2.  Write a 2 x 3 array of double-precision values into
            the starting corner of the first variable; and

        3.  Close the dataset.

    can be accomplished by the following C fragment:

        int     ncid = ncopen("foo.nc", NC_RDWR);
        int     varid = 0;
        long    start[2], count[2];
        double  values[6];

        ncid = ncopen("foo.nc", NC_RDWR);

        start[0] = 0;
        start[1] = 0;
        count[0] = 2;
        count[1] = 3;

        values[0] = 0.0;
        values[1] = 1.0;
        values[2] = 2.0;
        values[3] = 3.0;
        values[4] = 4.0;
        values[5] = 5.0;

        ncvarput(ncid, varid, start, count, values);

        ncclose(ncid);

    or by this equivalent perl fragment:

        $ncid = NetCDF::open("foo.nc", RDWR);
        $varid = 0;
        @start = (0, 0);
        @count = (2, 3);
        @values = (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5);
        NetCDF::varput($ncid, $varid, \@start, \@rcount, \@values);
        NetCDF::close($ncid);

    There are perl-callable functions for all appropriate functions of
    the netCDF API.

AVAILABILITY
------------

    netCDFPerl is freely available from the following URL:

        ftp://ftp.unidata.ucar.edu/pub/netcdf-perl/netcdf-perl.tar.Z

INSTALLATION
------------

    See the file INSTALL in the top-level directory of the netCDFPerl
    distribution for instructions on how to incorporate netCDFPerl into
    your perl utility.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
----------------------

    See the installed manual page, netCDFPerl(1), for additional
    information.

MAILING-LIST
------------

    There is a netCDFPerl mailing-list.  To subscribe, send to the
    following address:

        majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

    a message whose body consists solely of the following:

        subscribe netcdf-perl [opt-addr]

    where [opt-addr] is an optional email address -- if you use it, then
    mailing-list postings will be sent to it; otherwise, they will be
    sent to the return address of the subscription request.


Regards,
Steve Emmerson <support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>