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The netcdf-c code has to deal with a variety of platforms: Windows, OSX, Linux, Cygwin, MSYS, etc. These platforms differ significantly in the kind of file paths that they accept. So in order to handle this, I have created a set of replacements for the most common file system operations such as _open_ or _fopen_ or _access_ to manage the file path differences correctly. A more limited version of this idea was already implemented via the ncwinpath.h and dwinpath.c code. So this can be viewed as a replacement for that code. And in path in many cases, the only change that was required was to replace '#include <ncwinpath.h>' with '#include <ncpathmgt.h>' and then replace file operation calls with the NCxxx equivalent from ncpathmgr.h Note that recently, the ncwinpath.h was renamed ncpathmgmt.h, so this pull request should not require dealing with winpath. The heart of the change is include/ncpathmgmt.h, which provides alternate operations such as NCfopen or NCaccess and which properly parse and rebuild path arguments to work for the platform on which the code is executing. This mostly matters for Windows because of the way that it uses backslash and drive letters, as compared to *nix*. One important feature is that the user can do string manipulations on a file path without having to worry too much about the platform because the path management code will properly handle most mixed cases. So one can for example concatenate a path suffix that uses forward slashes to a Windows path and have it work correctly. The conversion code is in libdispatch/dpathmgr.c, and the important function there is NCpathcvt which does the proper conversions to the local path format. As a rule, most code should just replace their file operations with the corresponding NCxxx ones defined in include/ncpathmgmt.h. These NCxxx functions all call NCpathcvt on their path arguments before executing the actual file operation. In some rare cases, the client may need to directly use NCpathcvt, but this should be avoided as much as possible. If there is a need for supporting a new file operation not already in ncpathmgmt.h, then use the code in dpathmgr.c as a template. Also please notify Unidata so we can include it as a formal part or our supported operations. Also, if you see an operation in the library that is not using the NCxxx form, then please submit an issue so we can fix it. Misc. Changes: * Clean up the utf8 testing code; it is impossible to get some tests to work under windows using shell scripts; the args do not pass as utf8 but as some other encoding. * Added an extra utf8 test case: test_unicode_path.sh * Add a true test for HDF5 1.10.6 or later because as noted in PR https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/1794, HDF5 changed its Windows file path handling. |
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Unidata NetCDF
About
The Unidata network Common Data Form (netCDF) is an interface for scientific data access and a freely-distributed software library that provides an implementation of the interface. The netCDF library also defines a machine-independent format for representing scientific data. Together, the interface, library, and format support the creation, access, and sharing of scientific data. The current netCDF software provides C interfaces for applications and data. Separate software distributions available from Unidata provide Java, Fortran, Python, and C++ interfaces. They have been tested on various common platforms.
Properties
NetCDF files are self-describing, network-transparent, directly
accessible, and extendible. Self-describing means that a netCDF file
includes information about the data it contains. Network-transparent
means that a netCDF file is represented in a form that can be accessed
by computers with different ways of storing integers, characters, and
floating-point numbers. Direct-access means that a small subset of a
large dataset may be accessed efficiently, without first reading through
all the preceding data. Extendible means that data can be appended to
a netCDF dataset without copying it or redefining its structure.
Use
NetCDF is useful for supporting access to diverse kinds of scientific data in heterogeneous networking environments and for writing application software that does not depend on application-specific formats. For information about a variety of analysis and display packages that have been developed to analyze and display data in netCDF form, see
More information
For more information about netCDF, see
Latest releases
You can obtain a copy of the latest released version of netCDF software for various languages:
- C library and utilities
- Fortran
- [Java](https://www.unidata.ucar.edu/downloads/netcdf-java/
- Python
- C++
Copyright
Copyright and licensing information can be found here, as well as in the COPYRIGHT file accompanying the software
Installation
To install the netCDF-C software, please see the file INSTALL in the netCDF-C distribution, or the (usually more up-to-date) document:
Documentation
A language-independent User's Guide for netCDF, and some other language-specific user-level documents are available from:
- Language-independent User's Guide
- NetCDF-C Tutorial
- Fortran-90 User's Guide
- Fortran-77 User's Guide
- netCDF-Java/Common Data Model library
- netCDF4-python
A mailing list, netcdfgroup@unidata.ucar.edu, exists for discussion of the netCDF interface and announcements about netCDF bugs, fixes, and enhancements. For information about how to subscribe, see the URL
Feedback
We appreciate feedback from users of this package. Please send comments, suggestions, and bug reports to support-netcdf@unidata.ucar.edu.