This document accompanies version 3 of the netCDF package (otherwise
known as "netCDF-3").  For more information about netCDF, see the
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    http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf/

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The netCDF-3 C and FORTRAN-77 interfaces are documented in man(1) pages in
the distribution in files netcdf.3 and netcdf.3f, respectively.

User's Guides for C, FORTRAN, and FORTRAN-90 are also available in
several forms from

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

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

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