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/*! \file
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Documentation for the dispatch system
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\internal
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\defgroup dispatch The Dispatch Layer
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The dispatch layer is a way to add read/write modules to the netCDF
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library.
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Dispatch modules, plugged into the netCDF library, will allow netCDF
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programs to read and write other, perhaps quite local, formats.
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This should be of particular interest to anyone contemplating the
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conversion of large data collections to netCDF in order to gain access
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to those data in netCDF-oriented tools and software systems. Instead
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of converting the data, a read module could be written which would
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read the data as if it were in netCDF. This would give netCDF tools
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read-only access to data in this format, transparently to the tool.
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This mechanism is already used within the netCDF library to handle the
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netCDF-4/HDF5 files, and the remote data access features.
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Conceptually, the dispatch layer provides the same capabilities as the
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IOSP in the netCDF-Java library. However, unlike Java, C does not
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provide the advanced features to make this seemless.
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*/
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