Welcome to ncview, a X-windows based netCDF file browser.  If
you use netCDF files much, I think you will find that ncview is
a very quick and easy way to get a feeling for what the data
in the file looks like.

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To make ncview, if you are going to install it as super-user
(recommended, so everyone on your system can use it):

cd ncview-1.92e
./configure
make
su
make install

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To make ncview, if you are NOT going to install it as super-user:

cd ncview-1.92e
./configure -prefix=$HOME
make
make install



If needed, more instructions can be found in the ncview-1.92e 
directory in file "INSTALL".  For example, if you can't change
to super-user, you can still install ncview for your own personal
use by editing "Makefile.in" to change 

I've also included the udunits library if you want to install
that as well.  If you do, install it BEFORE trying to make ncview.
(NOTE: the udunits library doesn't work under Mac OS X, so don't
install it on that platform.)  If you use udunits type of dates
in your netCDF files, then you'll want to use this feature
(for example, times with units similar to "days since 1850-01-01").

Additionally, the programs I used to make the overlay files
(coastlines, lat/lon grid, etc) are in 'genoverlays'.  You can
make your own overlays if you want, it's easy.

Comments and suggestions are always appreciated!

--David Pierce
13 August 2003
dpierce@ucsd.edu
