[netcdfgroup] NetCDF-4 for Windows

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• Subject: [netcdfgroup] NetCDF-4 for Windows
• From: "Don Hooper (NOAA Affiliate)" <don.k.hooper@xxxxxxxx>
• Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 13:30:23 -0700

All,

A number of users have been perplexed by the change of format for many
of the files in our (ESRL/PSD's) archives from NetCDF3 to NetCDF4-Classic.
Many of them are Windows users, so I found the Unidata web page where they
could download pre-built software.  However, the users then responded that
they were getting errors about not having HDF5 libraries.  I didn't see
anything about that on the Unidata page, so I went poking around for both
pre-built HDF5 libraries and pre-built libcurl libraries for Windows.
The latter related to an nccopy command-line we have been suggesting for
folks who wanted a NetCDF3 version of one of the NC4 files in our archive.
That is, a command like:

        nccopy -k 1 URL-to-our-TDS-server localFileName.nc

I've determined that we should suggest to the Windows users that they
download software from the following three URLs:

http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/release/obtain5.html
http://curl.haxx.se/download.html
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/docs/winbin.html

Have I got them all?  Any changes suggested?  These users seem to
need help from folks more used to doing software installs (and
maybe builds).  However, we lack any and all Windows expertise.

Thanks,
-Hoop

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