64-bit offset file support in NCO

• To: "netCDF Mail List" <netcdfgroup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
• Subject: 64-bit offset file support in NCO
• From: "Charlie Zender" <zender@xxxxxxx>
• Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 15:34:18 -0800 (PST)

Hi All,

Support for the netCDF's new 64-bit offset format files is in NCO.
This feature will be released in NCO 3.0.0 shortly after Unidata
releases netCDF 3.6. By default NCO operators will create the
"classic" 32-bit file format. When invoked with the new -Z or
--64-bit-offset switches, NCO operators will create the new 64-bit
offset files.

The final release date of netCDF 3.6, and hence NCO 3.0.0, is unknown.
If you want/need the new large file functionality now, then CVS
check-out the current head of NCO from nco.sf.net, and build it with
the netCDF-beta6 or greater library. See

http://nco.sf.net/nco.html#lfs

for more details and see

http://nco.sf.net#bld_chn

on how to build NCO versions > 2.9.9 (i.e., the current snapshot)
with netCDF versions < 3.6.

Enjoy,
Charlie
-- 
Charlie Zender, surname@xxxxxxx, (949) 824-2987, Department of Earth
System Science, University of California, Irvine CA 92697-3100