Ncview 2.1.11  Nov 5, 2024 -- (C) David W. Pierce
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Overview: What Ncview *is*.
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This is the source for "ncview", a X Windows (Release 4 or higher) 
visual browser for netCDF data format files.  Ncview displays a 
2-dimensional, color representation of data in a netCDF file.  You 
can animate the data in time (making simple movies), flip or enlarge 
the picture, scan through various axes, change colormaps, etc.  You
can also plot the data in X-Y plots and then print those, courtesy 
of the SciPlot widget from Robert W. McMullen <rwmcm@orion.ae.utexas.edu>.

What Ncview *isn't*.
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Ncview is *not* an analysis package.  There are several excellent 
commercial packages available for that.  Rather, its purpose in life 
is to view movies or simple plots of data stored in netCDF format
files quickly, easily, and simply.  To view your data in a 'movie',
all you do is fire Ncview up and press a couple buttons--that's it!  To
make a plot, just click on the movie!  By contrast, analysis programs 
often require a lot of overhead massaging the data before you can do 
much.

I've tested this on DEC 5000s and DEC Alphas, IBM RS/6000s, SGI
workstations, and Linux machines.  It should also work with Suns now.
If you port it to a new platform, please mail me any changes which 
are required!  

Getting ncview
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The latest version of Ncview is available for anonymous ftp from
cirrus.ucsd.edu:/pub/ncview.
If you can't compile it, and need binaries, e-mail me and I'll 
see if I can find binaries for your platform.

Building ncview
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see file "INSTALL"

Copying, etc.
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Ncview is freely redistributable, but is not public domain.
It is copyright (C) 1993 through 2003 David W. Pierce.
This program  is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 1 as 
published by the Free Software Foundation.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License, version 3, for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

The SciPlot widget is Copyright (c) 1995 Robert W. McMullen
<rwmcm@orion.ae.utexas.edu>.  You can visit the SciPlot web page at
http://www.ae.utexas.edu/~rwmcm/SciPlot.html.

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David W. Pierce
davidwilliampierce@gmail.com
