problem reading netcdf classic file

[Wei-keng Liao]

Hi, Jim

This is due to netCDF library fails to respect the CDF file format
specification on file header padding. I have filed a bug report to
netCDF in Nov. 28. Please see the ticket for details:
https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/332

I believe you are the first one encounters this bug :)

Please note ncmpidump has not been actively maintained, because
its usage is for sequential run and since netCDF 4.4.0, ncdump has
started to support CDF5 format. I suggest to use ncdump instead
(of course after the netCDF folks fix this bug.) If you added
a note to that ticket as a netCDF user request, I would guess they
will incorporate the fix in the master branch and then next release.

Wei-keng

On Feb 22, 2017, at 9:31 AM, Jim Edwards wrote:

> Good Morning,
> 
> ncdump -k gives classic
> 
> But all attempts to open this file with pnetcdf give
> 0:ncmpidump: EUVAC_reference_c150702.nc: NetCDF: Invalid argument
> 
> The file is small so I am attaching it.
> 
> Using pnetcdf/1.8.0 I am able to get the -k option of ncmpidump to work
> 
> but without the -k option I still get the invalid argument error.
> 
> 
> 
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> 
> 
> -- 
> Jim Edwards
> 
> CESM Software Engineer
> National Center for Atmospheric Research
> Boulder, CO 
> <EUVAC_reference_c150702.nc>