Reading netcdf files

[Mark Esplin]

        I have written a simple ".oct" extension that will read data from a 
netcdf 
file.  It uses the freely downloadable netcdf library.  See: 
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf/.  It is not a fully functional 
solution like the HDF5 support built into the latest octave, but it does work.

        Also, I wrote a short script called repmat.m that has the functionality 
of 
the Matlab function of the same name.

        In a resent collaboration I have had a need to run several Matlab 
scripts.  
The price of a commercial Matlab license is so expensive that I decide to 
take a look at octave.  We are associated with a university, but only as a 
research facility so MathSoft wanted to hit us with the commerical licensing 
cost.  With the above mentioned extensions, and a few minor edits of the ".m" 
files I was able to execute the scripts that I needed.  

                         -Mark Esplin

p.s.    I am using GNU Octave, version 2.1.34 (i686-pc-linux-gnu)

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Stewart Radiance Lab
Utah State University.

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