Hi: Russ Moffit of our Honolulu Lab has made a modification to the R netcdf package 'ncdf' so that it can access remote netcdf files using OPenDAP (http://www.opendap.org). The package works on Linux, and with help from Don MacQueen was also ported to Macintosh OS X. We have had a lot of demand for this to be ported to Windows also, but it is beyond our capabilities. If there is anyone willing to try and port this to Windows, I can provide existing code and get them in touch with the people who did the Linux and Macintosh ports. If someone is willing to give this a stab and get it to work - they will surely be blessed many times over and go to heaven! Seriously, we just had a course on the use of satellite data in Fisheries, and there was a large demand for this. TIA, -Roy M. -- ********************** "The contents of this message do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government or NOAA." ********************** Roy Mendelssohn Supervisory Operations Research Analyst NOAA/NMFS Environmental Research Division Southwest Fisheries Science Center 1352 Lighthouse Avenue Pacific Grove, CA 93950-2097 e-mail: Roy.Mendelssohn at noaa.gov (Note new e-mail address) voice: (831)-648-9029 fax: (831)-648-8440 www: http://www.pfeg.noaa.gov/ "Old age and treachery will overcome youth and skill."