accessing data w/ gradsdods

[Dan Leins]

List,

After a bit of trouble, I've gotten gradsdods 1.9b4 working on my home
PC.  i'd like to use it to access model data on the nomads.ncdc server,
but I'm running into a bit if trouble.   For example, if I want to open
this morning's 06Z run of the NAM, I type in...

"open
http://nomads.ncdc.noaa.gov:9091/dods/NCEP_NAM/200511/20051114/nam_218_20051114_0600_fff"

but nothing seems to happen.  I don't get any error messages - it's as
if it's trying to open it, but failing.

Thinking that I may not have compiled grads correctly, I tried to open a
station data file from another server, and it seems to work just fine,
so the problem seems to be isolated to any time I try and open up model
data.  Does anyone have any idea why this might be the case?  Is the
syntax of my open command incorrect?  Like I said before, I had some
trouble getting gradsdods to work in the past, so I haven't been able to
experiment with it much at all, so I could be making a "newbie" mistake
and not even knowing it.

In case anyone needs it....this is the output of 'q config'


Config: v1.9b4 32-bit little-endian readline sdf/xdf netcdf dods
dods-stn lats athena printim

Grid Analysis and Display System (GrADS) Version 1.9b4
Copyright (c) 1988-2005 by Brian Doty and IGES
Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies (COLA)
Institute for Global Environment and Society (IGES)
This program is distributed WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY
See file COPYRIGHT for more information.

Built Mon May 23 13:31:07 EDT 2005 for i686-pc-linux-gnu

This version of GrADS has been configured with the following options:

   o This is a 32-bit LITTLE ENDIAN machine version.
   o Command line editing (readline) ENABLED.
   o CIRES/CDC (http://www.cdc.noaa.gov) SDF/XDF interface ENABLED.
     Use sdfopen/xdfopen to read NetCDF files.
   o DTYPE netcdf is ENABLED; DTYPE hdfsds is DISABLED.
   o OPeNDAP (a.k.a. DODS) gridded data interface ENABLED.
(http://opendap.org)
     This version is configured to access gridded data on OPeNDAP servers
     via the sdfopen or xdfopen commands, or using DTYPE netcdf.
   o OPeNDAP (a.k.a. DODS) station data interface (gadods) ENABLED.
     This version is configured to access station data on OPeNDAP servers
     via the open command.
   o PCMDI (http://www-pcmdi.llnl.gov) LATS interface ENABLED.
     This version is configured to write GRIB and NetCDF files.
   o DAO (http://dao.gsfc.nasa.gov) Athena Widget GUI ENABLED.
   o NRL/DAO/PCMDI XA or ImageMagick Image Output DISABLED.
   o printim command for direct png/gif output ENABLED.
     (via the GD Library -- http://www.boutell.com/gd)


Does anything in there stick out as wrong or the likely cause of these
problems?

Thanks,
Dan Leins