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This directory contains the following files:

XDR.LIB         The XDR library for MSDOS platforms (compiled with
		Microsoft C), required by the netCDF library.

NETCDF.LIB      The netCDF library for MSDOS platforms (compiled with
		Microsoft C), containing all the C-callable netCDF
		interfaces.  This is required for the Fortran interface as
		well, since the Fortran netCDF subprograms call the C netCDF
		functions.

NETCDF.H        The header file for the C interface.  This should be
		#included in C programs that call netCDF functions.

JACKETS.OBJ     The Fortran interface for netCDF for MSDOS platforms
		(compiled with Microsoft C).

FSLEN.OBJ       A small compiled function required for the Fortran netCDF
		interface when using Microsoft compilers to facilitate
		calling C programs that use strings (character arrays) from
		Fortran.
		
NETCDF.INC      The include file for the Fortran interface. This should be
		included in Fortran programs that call netCDF subroutines to
		provide the necessary declarations.
		
NCDUMP.EXE      An MSDOS executable of the NCDUMP program for converting
		netCDF files to ASCII form.

NCGEN.EXE       An MSDOS executable of the NCGEN program for compileing
		netCDF descriptions or generating entCDF files from ASCII
		form.

NETCDF.ZIP      A PKZIP file containing source files for netCDF version
		2.3.2pl2 (June 1993).
		
README          This file.


The executables in this directory were built in MSDOS 5.0.  NCGEN and NCDUMP
were built by linking against the C library LLIBC7.LIB, which expects a
floating-point coprocessor.  The library and utilities can be rebuilt to
link against the floating-point emulator library by changing the line

	CLIB	=  llibc7.lib

in the msoft.mk files in the source distribution to 

	CLIB	=  llibce.lib

and rebuilding.

Also see the extensive notes on changes recommended to netCDF version 2.3 to
build the library and programs using Microsoft's C++/7.0 compiler without a
coprocessor in the file pub/netcdf/contrib/msoft-7.0.

NOTE: These binaries and compiled libraries have been tested with MSDOS 5.0.
They were created using Microsoft C 6.0 and Microsoft Fortran 5.1.  Versions
of Fortran before 5.0 are not compatible with the FSLEN.OBJ function, so the
FORTRAN interface will not work with older version of FORTRAN.