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    1 Ncview 1.93d  June 13, 2008 -- (C) David W. Pierce
    2 --------------------------------------------------
    3 
    4 Overview: What Ncview *is*.
    5 ---------------------------
    6 This is the source for "ncview", a X Windows (Release 4 or higher) 
    7 visual browser for netCDF data format files.  Ncview displays a 
    8 2-dimensional, color representation of data in a netCDF file.  You 
    9 can animate the data in time (making simple movies), flip or enlarge 
   10 the picture, scan through various axes, change colormaps, etc.  You
   11 can also plot the data in X-Y plots and then print those, courtesy 
   12 of the SciPlot widget from Robert W. McMullen <rwmcm@orion.ae.utexas.edu>.
   13 
   14 What Ncview *isn't*.
   15 --------------------
   16 Ncview is *not* an analysis package.  There are several excellent 
   17 commercial packages available for that.  Rather, its purpose in life 
   18 is to view movies or simple plots of data stored in netCDF format
   19 files quickly, easily, and simply.  To view your data in a 'movie',
   20 all you do is fire Ncview up and press a couple buttons--that's it!  To
   21 make a plot, just click on the movie!  By contrast, analysis programs 
   22 often require a lot of overhead massaging the data before you can do 
   23 much.
   24 
   25 I've tested this on DEC 5000s and DEC Alphas, IBM RS/6000s, SGI
   26 workstations, and Linux machines.  It should also work with Suns now.
   27 If you port it to a new platform, please mail me any changes which 
   28 are required!  
   29 
   30 Getting ncview
   31 --------------
   32 The latest version of Ncview is available for anonymous ftp from
   33 cirrus.ucsd.edu:/pub/ncview.
   34 If you can't compile it, and need binaries, e-mail me and I'll 
   35 see if I can find binaries for your platform.
   36 
   37 Building ncview
   38 ---------------
   39 see file "INSTALL"
   40 
   41 Copying, etc.
   42 -------------
   43 Ncview is freely redistributable, but is not public domain.
   44 It is copyright (C) 1993 through 2003 David W. Pierce.
   45 This program  is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
   46 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 1 as 
   47 published by the Free Software Foundation.
   48 
   49 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
   50 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
   51 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
   52 GNU General Public License, version 1, for more details.
   53 
   54 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
   55 along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
   56 Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
   57 
   58 The SciPlot widget is Copyright (c) 1995 Robert W. McMullen
   59 <rwmcm@orion.ae.utexas.edu>.  You can visit the SciPlot web page at
   60 http://www.ae.utexas.edu/~rwmcm/SciPlot.html.
   61 
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   63 David W. Pierce
   64 6259 Caminito Carrena
   65 San Diego, CA  92122
   66 dpierce@ucsd.edu