NetCDF version 2.8.1 available on IBM and SGI systems

Version 2.8.1 of the NetCDF Operators (NCO) has been built and is ready for testing on NCAR's IBM-SP systems (bluesky, blackforest, babyblue, and dave), and SGI systems (chinook, chinookfe, and dataproc).

The NCO binaries are available on all systems in the directory /usr/local/apps/nco-2.8.1/bin.

The new NCO will be available for user testing until 31 October 2003. During the test period, report any problems to SCD consultant Mike Page (mpage@ucar.edu).

Notable features of NCO added since the current version, 2.7.1:

• NCO 2.8.1, “Variable wildcarding”—extended regular expressions in -v var,... lists—support in all operators
• NCO 2.8.0, New “binary” operator ncbo, obsoletes ncdiff, Debian integration
• NCO 2.7.4, Autotools build support for AIX, fix UDUnits confusion with floating point hyperslab specifications
• NCO 2.7.3, Support UDUnits (and some CF) conventions, e.g.,
  ncks -d wvl "1 picometer","1 furlong" -d time,"2001-03-19 06:00:0.0","2001-03-19 18:00:0.0"
• NCO 2.7.2, Printing (ncks -H) plays well with multislabbing