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The netCDF software provides common C and FORTRAN interfaces for applications and data. The C interface library is available for many common computing platforms, including various versions of UNIX, VMS, MSDOS and OS/2 environments. The FORTRAN interface, implemented in C, is available for many of the platforms on which the C interface is available. The form in which the FORTRAN interface is implemented makes it easy to generate and test a new FORTRAN interface for a new platform by specifying the conventions for calling C from FORTRAN. An experimental C++ prototype interface is currently under evaluation.
The netCDF software is being made freely available to encourage the sharing of both scientific data and the software that makes the data useful.
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