Thanks, Marco. It all works fine now. I can delete my home-grown netCDF build. On a related topic, I intend to work with Charlie Zender and Pedro Vicente to get NCO (URL below) bundled as a Cygwin package. http://nco.sourceforge.net/ But it will be a few weeks before I can devote some effort to this. -- Please consider the environment before printing this email. NIWA is the trading name of the National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research Ltd. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple