Re: Lage file support for fbindirread

Hello Mary.

I just want to report that the NCL 4.2.0.a035 pre-release worked
perfectly for reading my 4.6 Gb binary file. Thank you again.

--Dave A.
CU/CIRES Climate Diagnostics Center (CDC)
NOAA/ESRL/PSD, Climate Analysis Branch (CAB)

Mary Haley wrote on Dec 4:
>
> Hi Dave and others,
>
> Yes, I can provide pre-release binaries for anybody who's interested
> in testing these binary functions.
>
> Dave, I will contact you personally in a little bit with more
> information.
>
> --Mary

> On Fri, 1 Dec 2006, Dave Allured wrote:
>
>> Hello NCL team.
>>
>> I need to read a 4.6 Gb direct access Fortran binary file in NCL. The
>> web page for fbindirread indicates that this will be possible only in
>> the next NCL release.
>>
>> http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Functions/Built-in/fbindirread.shtml
>>
>> Would it be easy to provide me with a pre release version of
>> 4.2.0.a035 with fbindirread working correctly for large files?
>>
>> I note the caution about variables larger than 2 Gb. That will not be
>> a problem, as my file is broken into time steps.
>>
>> I need a version for Mac OS:
>>
>> mac56:~ 31> uname -a
>> Darwin mac56.cdc.noaa.gov 8.8.0 Darwin Kernel Version 8.8.0: Fri Sep
>> 8 17:18:57 PDT 2006; root:xnu-792.12.6.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC Power
>> Macintosh powerpc
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> --Dave A.
>> CU/CIRES Climate Diagnostics Center (CDC)
>> NOAA/ESRL/PSD, Climate Analysis Branch (CAB)
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