newbie documentation and julian date question

Hello, everyone,

I'm new to NCL, and with Dennis Shea's help (thanks, Dennis!) I've gotten
a little script working that converts a couple of flat binary files into
netCDF. I have three questions:

1) I'll bet that there are julian date format convertors out there,
   somewhere. Can someone let me know where they are?

2) As a general logistical question, is there some way to query for help
   on a general topic at the command line? Something like "help date"
   If not, then how do NCL users find out about routines they might be
   looking for, and/or how to call those routines once they know they're
   there?

3) I'm an emacs user, and have found and installed the ncl.el file for
   formatting, but I'm wondering if there's anything like an
   ncl-shell-mode, where I can do line-by-line debugging with the script
   in one window, tied to an ncl execution shell in the other?

Thanks,
Mary Jo Brodzik

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Mary Jo Brodzik, Lead Scientific Programmer, 303-492-8263
NSIDC/CIRES, Univ. of Colo. at Boulder, 449 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309-0449
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