cdfread function for octave

[Peter Mao]

Is there any call for a function to read CDF files into octave?  In  
my lab, we chose CDF over HDF, FITS and a host of other binary  
formats because it looked simple and was easy to implement.  The  
other major factor was that Matlab has a CDFREAD function, which,  
with appropriate massaging, makes it very easy to deal with CDF in  
that environment.

UCLA doesn't have a Matlab site license, so to get other students and  
researchers to use a serious data analysis package (NOT EXCEL!!),  
I've been telling people about Octave.  The lack of a CDF reader was  
a hurdle, so I wrote this Perl script to do the job.  It's not  
comprehensive, and it doesn't match all of Matlab's CDFREAD's  
capabilities, but it's a start (and it does everything I need it to do).

Looking in the Octave mail archives, the last request for a CDF  
reader was in 2001.  I could also put this up in the CDF user- 
supplied software list, but that has only one other link on it and  
doesn't look well supported/promoted.

Suggestion on where to go next are appreciated.

cdfread.pl
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