NetCDF-4 allows various 64-bit data types in addition to DOUBLE, 
but there is no /LONG64 or /ULONG64 keyword in NCDF_VARGET.  (I
tried it and got an error message.)

Any idea why not?

I have been trying to learn some of the new NetCDF-4 features and it 
has been, uh, an interesting experience.

Ken Bowman

On Apr 22, 3:12=A0pm, "Kenneth P. Bowman" <k-bow...@null.edu> wrote:
> NetCDF-4 allows various 64-bit data types in addition to DOUBLE,
> but there is no /LONG64 or /ULONG64 keyword in NCDF_VARGET. =A0(I
> tried it and got an error message.)
>
> Any idea why not?
>
> I have been trying to learn some of the new NetCDF-4 features and it
> has been, uh, an interesting experience.
>
> Ken Bowman

Support for some additional NetCDF 4 data types appears to have been
added in IDL 8.1, including UINT64.
Alison

In article 
<3773fbb5-b25b-4cb7-98c4-77880da317e6@z27g2000prz.googlegroups.com>,
 alison <postings@desertsagesoftware.com> wrote:

> On Apr 22, 3:12�pm, "Kenneth P. Bowman" <k-bow...@null.edu> wrote:
> > NetCDF-4 allows various 64-bit data types in addition to DOUBLE,
> > but there is no /LONG64 or /ULONG64 keyword in NCDF_VARGET. �(I
> > tried it and got an error message.)
> >
> > Any idea why not?
> >
> > I have been trying to learn some of the new NetCDF-4 features and it
> > has been, uh, an interesting experience.
> >
> > Ken Bowman
> 
> Support for some additional NetCDF 4 data types appears to have been
> added in IDL 8.1, including UINT64.
> Alison

Excellent, thanks.

Ken

Hi,

I had to dig out this post. I have installed the IDL 7.1sdf patch to get 
the NCDF 4 features in IDL.

Is it possible to define a LONG64 variable with this patch? If it is, 
what is the keyword to use? I tried many keywords without success...

Thanks a lot!

Fab


On 04/25/2011 09:55 PM, Kenneth P. Bowman wrote:
> In article
> <3773fbb5-b25b-4cb7-98c4-77880da317e6@z27g2000prz.googlegroups.com>,
>   alison<postings@desertsagesoftware.com>  wrote:
>
>> On Apr 22, 3:12 pm, "Kenneth P. Bowman"<k-bow...@null.edu>  wrote:
>>> NetCDF-4 allows various 64-bit data types in addition to DOUBLE,
>>> but there is no /LONG64 or /ULONG64 keyword in NCDF_VARGET.  (I
>>> tried it and got an error message.)
>>>
>>> Any idea why not?
>>>
>>> I have been trying to learn some of the new NetCDF-4 features and it
>>> has been, uh, an interesting experience.
>>>
>>> Ken Bowman
>>
>> Support for some additional NetCDF 4 data types appears to have been
>> added in IDL 8.1, including UINT64.
>> Alison
>
> Excellent, thanks.
>
> Ken

Fabzou writes: 

> I had to dig out this post. I have installed the IDL 7.1sdf patch to get 
> the NCDF 4 features in IDL.
> 
> Is it possible to define a LONG64 variable with this patch? If it is, 
> what is the keyword to use? I tried many keywords without success...

It seems to me the post you quote speaks for itself. :-)

Cheers,

David


-- 
David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com/
Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")

On 11/30/2011 04:39 PM, David Fanning wrote:
> It seems to me the post you quote speaks for itself. :-)
>

I had the slight hope that the sdf patch would allow all the ncdf 
features, because Ken didn't say anything about the patch... Quite 
disappointing, but thanks!