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Footnotes

 (1)

This is a time-saver. It is not necessary to construct URLs that won't be used.

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If, on the other hand, the catalog function returned a count of two URLs for this particular request, those URLs should be dereferenced and the results returned to the browser separately.

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loaddods is a Matlab MEX-file, and appears in your directories as loaddods.mexxxx, where xxx is a suffix defined by Matlab for a particular machine architecture. For example, loaddods.mexglx would be for a GNU/Linux machine. There is also a loaddods.m function, which contains a help message for loaddods.

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Note the distinction between attributes and attribute containers. A variable called "v" in some dataset will correspond to an attribute container called "v" in the dataset's DAS. That container may contain attributes such as "precision" or "scale_factor" or "units."

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This is due to the variable name length limitations of Matlab.

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See the OPeNDAP urlqueue program for information about this feature.

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The OPeNDAP Matlab GUI is divided into two directories: the main directory, typically called something like ml-toolbox, and the DATASETS subdirectory contained in it. Roughly speaking, the operational division between these two directories is between the generally useful functions and dataset-specific functions. If a function written for a specific dataset appears to be useful for other datasets, it will be "elevated" to the main directory.

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Type echo $SHELL to find out which shell is active on your system.

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If you prefer, you can set the Matlab search path from within Matlab with the path() or addpath commands. You can put this command into a startup.m file to set the path automatically.