Announcement: netCDF version 3.6.0 now available

• To: netcdfgroup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
• Subject: Announcement: netCDF version 3.6.0 now available
• From: Russ Rew <russ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 09:00:44 -0700

Hi,

We're pleased to announce that netCDF version 3.6.0 is now available.

NetCDF version 3.6 improves large file support, Windows compatibility,
ease of installation, documentation, and Fortran-90 interface
performance. In addition, it fixes a few bugs.  It's available in
source form as a gzipped tar file or compressed tar file

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

New simplified installation instructions are available from

  http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf/docs/netcdf-install/

Prebuilt binary versions are also available for some common platforms: 

  http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf/binaries.html

For more information, see the release announcement,

  http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf/announce-3.6.html

the new documentation,

  http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf/docs/

or the detailed Release Notes

  http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf/release-notes-3.6.0.html

If you encounter problems with the new release, please report them to
support-netcdf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx with version 3.6.0 explicitly
mentioned in the subject.  Thanks!

--Ed Hartnett
--Russ Rew