From 160b30c4c46c314335979b9f7ba42b201786a159 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ed Hartnett <ed@unidata.ucar.edu>
Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 19:04:00 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] documentation fix

---
 man4/netcdf.texi | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/man4/netcdf.texi b/man4/netcdf.texi
index b3253732b..a93902d03 100644
--- a/man4/netcdf.texi
+++ b/man4/netcdf.texi
@@ -3105,6 +3105,11 @@ variables) with no distinguished name.  The netCDF-4 data model
 requires that each variable, attribute, dimension, and group have a
 single distinguished name.
 
+@item
+HDF5 (like netCDF) supports scalar attributes, but netCDF-4 cannot
+read scalar HDF5 attributes (unless it is a string attribute). This
+limitation will be removed in a future release of netCDF.
+
 @end itemize
 
 These are fairly easy requirements to meet, but there is one relating