The NCAR Data Support Section (DSS) provides software for reading and manipulating legacy COS-blocked files created on NCAR Cray computers during 1978-1999, when Crays were available to the NCAR computing community. This software is downloadable from this link:
We recommend that you use the DSS utilities and craylib for converting your legacy COS-blocked datasets in preference to library NCARU, which offers some of the same features, but mainly provides support for the packing and unpacking routines in the context of Cray legacy datasets. The DSS software is available on Unix and Linux systems and is better supported than NCARU. The latter software is not available on Linux, and is distributed on request with the understanding that it is not supported. Please do not use NCARU unless you have Cray-legacy packed data that requires unpacking. Please see this link describing the use and availability of NCARU routines:
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Last update: 08/26/2008
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