Newbie questions!

[Jean Pierre Arabonis]

Hi Bob
    Welcome to grads, firstly I feel that grads is better suited to the
linux environment - besides being basically anti-windows, you'll find a
lot of the users of grads are working in a unix/linux environment and
user support is probably better in that area, further for automation of
grads scripts, linux is very flexible (which seems to be your ultimate
goal).
    It seems though there have been some library issues with recent
versions of grads on certain flavours of linux, red hat does not seem to
be one of them   but a trawl of the archives should resolve any
compatibility issues.
    With regard to load, thats going to depend on your input files and
what you do with them, however grads is very stable and will generally
complete the task without falling over. I have grads running on an old
450 MHz P2 running scripts and it works just fine.
    With regard to your problem with the model file it seems to me to be
a path problem, the data file and ctl file must be in the same directory.
    Good Luck
       Jean Pierre


Bob wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I`ve never used Grads before, so it`s a completely new ball game for
> me!! The most ambitious I`ve been is to use a desktop utility likes DAWS!
>
> I have several questions to ask, where the answers could not be found
> on the Cola homepage.
>
> I would like to install Grads on my server, mainly so I can ingest and
> display grib data/model charts on my website. What kind of server
> loads would I be looking at here? I need to know, whether my server
> can cope with it it!! Can someone shed some light on using Grads on a
> redhat linux based server?
>
> Secondly, I haven`t looked through any of the documentation as yet. I
> thought it might be a good idea to install the windows version locally
> on my W2K PC first, so I can get an idea of how Grads works.
>
> I believe I have it installed correctly, but I can`t even get off the
> starting block!! I tried to open the demo model.ctl file that comes
> with the online tutorial - all I get are errors `Scanning description
> file:  model
> Open Error:  Can't open description file`
>
> Do I need to place the ctl, grib and gmp in a certain folder? All the
> tutorial says is download them and place them locally. Thanks.
>
> Regards,
> Ron.


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