version 3.3.1 now available

• To: netcdfgroup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
• Subject: version 3.3.1 now available
• From: Russ Rew <russ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 14:31:54 -0600

Hi,

The netCDF version 3.3.1 release is now available in source form as a
compressed tar file from

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

Binary versions are available for many platforms from

   ftp://ftp.unidata.ucar.edu/pub/binary/

This is an update to netCDF version 3.3 that works on more systems and
fixes a few bugs.  Release notes are available with the software, but
the changes are also summarized here.

Changes from version 3.3
=======================

Previously, to get the number of global attributes you had to call a
dataset-level inquire function.  It is now also possible to get the
number of global attributes by specifying the "global variable ID" to a
variable inquire function.

The library can now be built from source on a Win32 system.

The FORTRAN interface should now work on more systems.  In particular:

   * It should now work with FORTRAN compilers whose "integer*1"
     datatype is either a C "signed char", "short", or "int" and whose
     "integer*2" datatype is either a C "short" or "int".
   * It should now work with FORTRAN compilers that are extremely picky
     about source code formatting (e.g. the NAG f90 compiler).

EXTERNAL statements have been added to the FORTRAN include-file
"netcdf.inc" to eliminate excessive warnings about "unused" variables
(which were actually functions) by some compilers.

The Fortran output generated under the "-f" option of ncgen is improved,
using portable automatic conversion with netCDF-3 interfaces instead of
non-standard "BYTE", "INTEGER*1", or "INTEGER*2" declarations.

The C++ interface will now compile the C++ library with Digital's cxx
compiler.

A bug that caused ncdump to report "Attempt to convert between text &
numbers" when the _FillValue attribute of a character variable was set
to the empty string is now fixed.  A bug that output a semicolon instead
of a comma separator for variables with more than 1000 values in the
last dimensions is fixed.

Various bugs in ncgen are now fixed, including handling byte attributes
on platforms on which char is unsigned, initializing scalar character
variables in generated C code under "-c" option, interspersing DATA
statements with declaration statements in generated Fortran code under
"-f" option, handling the empty string as a value in generated C and
Fortran code, and handling escape characters in strings.

The dependency on the non-POSIX utility m4(1) for generating the C and
FORTRAN manual pages has been eliminated.

Building the netCDF-3 package no longer requires the existence of the
Standard C macro RAND_MAX.

Please report any additional problems to support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.

--Russ

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Russ Rew                                         UCAR Unidata Program
russ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx                     http://www.unidata.ucar.edu