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[netcdfgroup] Fortran appending a file as a global attribute

I am fairly well-versed with the F90 interface to netCDF, but the following problem
has me stumped.

My Fortran program has an input namelist (usually less than 100 lines) that I would
like to insert into a netCDF file as a global attribute.

Any ideas?

At the risk of steering the discussion ...
The NetCDF Fortran 90 Interface Guide has a statement in Section 5.2 "Attribute Conventions":

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A global attribute for an audit trail. This is a character array with a line for each invocation of a program that has modified the dataset. Well-behaved generic netCDF applications should append a line containing: date, time of day, user name, program name and command arguments.

the key word being 'append' ...

Any ideas (short of "NF90_GET_ATT, NF90_DEL_ATT, [append], NF90_PUT_ATT" for each line in the file)
would be appreciated.

Tim Hoar, Associate Scientist
National Center for Atmospheric Research
thoar@xxxxxxxx
303 497 1708




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