'nf_put_var_*' and UNLIMITED ; 'ncstat' status

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• Subject: 'nf_put_var_*' and UNLIMITED ; 'ncstat' status
• From: strandwg@xxxxxxxx (Gary Strand)
• Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 15:42:27 -0600

Gary,

Keywords: 199910182142.PAA20619
Sender: owner-netcdfgroup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

In the above message you wrote:

> Two questions I've gotten from colleagues:
> 
> 1. "nf_put_var_real" doesn't work properly when one of the dimensions defined 
>    for the field being "put" is NF_UNLIMITED, apparently. The solution was to 
>    use "nf_put_vara_real", but the gotcha in using "nf_put_var_real" was no-
>    where in the netCDF-3 documentation.

I've been unable to duplicate this problem with version 3.4 of the
netCDF package (the latest official release): all attempts at using
nf_put_var_real() to write a record variable have succeeded.

Would it be possible to get from you a small example that illustrates
the problem?

Regards,
Steve Emmerson             <http://www.unidata.ucar.edu>