NetCDF-3 Release

This document describes version 3 of the netCDF package (otherwise known
as "netCDF-3").  For an overview of netCDF, see the netCDF Web page at

    http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf/

Legal stuff (copyright, licensing restrictions, etc.) can be found in
the file COPYRIGHT.

To install this package, please see the file INSTALL.

The netCDF-3 C and FORTRAN interfaces are documented in man(1) pages in
the distribution in files netcdf.3 and netcdf.3f, respectively.

Two new User's Guides for C and FORTRAN are also available in several
forms:

    NetCDF User's Guide for C:
     ftp://ftp.unidata.ucar.edu/pub/netcdf/guidec.ps.Z       (PostScript)
     ftp://ftp.unidata.ucar.edu/pub/netcdf/guidec.html.tar.Z (HTML)
     http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf/guidec/     (online)

    NetCDF User's Guide for FORTRAN:
     ftp://ftp.unidata.ucar.edu/pub/netcdf/guidef.ps.Z       (PostScript)
     ftp://ftp.unidata.ucar.edu/pub/netcdf/guidef.html.tar.Z (HTML)
     http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf/guidef/     (online)

An overview of the differences between netCDF-2 and netCDF-3 can be
found in the file COMPATIBILITY.

We appreciate feedback from users of this package.  Please send
comments, suggestions, and bug reports to <support@unidata.ucar.edu>.
Please identify the version of the package (file VERSION).
