Newbie questions!

[Bob]

I followed Franks advice and it now works fine :)


----- Original Message -----
From: "Kwan-yin Kong" <kongkwan at SCI.CCNY.CUNY.EDU>
To: <GRADSUSR at LIST.CINECA.IT>
Sent: Monday, November 14, 2005 6:25 PM
Subject: Re: Newbie questions!


> Hi Wen,
>
> Did you set (or put it in the shell initialization file)
> the environment variable "GRADS" to your GrADS directory?
>
> Kwan-yin Kong
>
>   On Mon, 14 Nov 2005 14:07:25 -0500
>   fangwen at CLIMATE.CESTM.ALBANY.EDU wrote:
> >
> >Hi,
> >I use absolute path to open model.ctl successfully.
> >but in my model.ctl file, the first line is:
> >DSET ^model.dat
> >I think there must be a method to open the file not using
> >absolute path.  where I can set the path ?
> >
> >wen
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: Eric Tiong <eric at OFFSHOREWEATHER.COM.AU>
> >Date: Monday, November 14, 2005 12:52 pm
> >Subject: Newbie questions!
> >
> >> Bob,
> >>
> >> This could be a unix2dos or dos2unix problem.  I think
> >>the ctl
> >> file can not have CR/LF pairs in line breaks.
> >>
> >> Eric
> >>  ----- Original Message -----
> >>  From: Bob
> >>  To: GRADSUSR at LIST.CINECA.IT
> >>  Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 4:05 AM
> >>  Subject: Re: Newbie questions!
> >>
> >>
> >>  Still no luck!! Whatever I do, I still get those can`t
> >>open file
> >> errors.
> >>  Thanks for your help though. I`m running the win32e
> >>version.
> >>
> >>
> >>    ----- Original Message -----
> >>    From: Jean Pierre Arabonis
> >>    To: GRADSUSR at LIST.CINECA.IT
> >>    Sent: Monday, November 14, 2005 12:49 PM
> >>    Subject: Re: Newbie questions!
> >>
> >>
> >>    Hi Bob
> >>        Should not matter where you put them, check that
> >>the
> >> model.ctl file has the fist line looking like so:
> >>    dset ^model.grb
> >>    and not pathed somewhere else, check the permissions
> >>on teh
> >> files you need to at least be able to read them.
> >>    Note that if you are running grads from another
> >>directory than
> >> the one where the files reside you bust give the
> >>absolute path to
> >> the control file, eg
> >>
> >>    ga> open /your full path/model.ctl
> >>
> >>    Your directory holding the files should look somthing
> >>like so:
> >>
> >>    arabonis at baltic:/mnt/pacific/data/gradstut/atmosdata>
> >>ls -lat
> >>    total 593
> >>    -rw-r--r--  1 arabonis osis 593060 Jan 14  2003
> >>model.grb
> >>    -rw-r--r--  1 arabonis osis   4633 Jan 14  2003
> >>model.gmp
> >>    drwxr-xr-x  2 arabonis osis    144 Jan 14  2003 ./
> >>    -rw-r--r--  1 arabonis osis    651 Jan 14  2003
> >>model.ctl
> >>    drwxr-xr-x  4 arabonis osis    104 Jan 14  2003 ../
> >>
> >>    and the ctl file like so:
> >>
> >>    arabonis at baltic:/mnt/pacific/data/gradstut/atmosdata>
> >>cat
> >> model.ctl    dset ^model.grb
> >>    title "Sample Model Data for GrADS Tutorial"
> >>    undef 1e+20
> >>    dtype grib
> >>    index ^model.gmp
> >>    xdef 72 linear 0.000000 5.000000
> >>    ydef 46 linear -90.000000 4.000000
> >>    zdef 7 levels
> >>    1000 850 700 500 300 200 100
> >>    tdef 5 linear 0Z2jan1987  1dy
> >>    vars 8
> >>    ps        0    1,  1,  0,  0 Surface pressure [hPa]
> >>    u         7   33,100 Eastward wind [m/s]
> >>    v         7   34,100 Northward wind [m/s]
> >>    z         7    7,100 Geopotential height [m]
> >>    t         7   11,100 Air Temperature [K]
> >>    q         7   51,100 Specific humidity [kg/kg]
> >>    ts        0   11,105,  2 Surface (2m) air temperature
> >>[K]
> >>    p         0   59,  1,  0,  0 Total precipitation rate
> >>[kg/(m^2*s)]
> >>    endvars
> >>
> >>    Hope this helps
> >>        JP
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>    Bob wrote:
> >>
> >>      Thankyou,
> >>
> >>      I have the datafiles all in the same directory. I
> >>have
> >> placed them in the main Grads folder, and tried in just
> >>about
> >> every other folder too but I still get the error.
> >>
> >>      I can`t think of anything else to try!! I`ve been
> >>waiting to
> >> play around with Grads for ages, but find this
> >>frustrating that I
> >> can`t even get off the starting block :D
> >>
> >>      Is there a specific place where the datafiles (ctl,
> >>grib)
> >> should go?
> >>
> >>      Ron.
> >>        ----- Original Message -----
> >>        From: Jean Pierre Arabonis
> >>        To: GRADSUSR at LIST.CINECA.IT
> >>        Sent: Monday, November 14, 2005 12:25 PM
> >>        Subject: Re: Newbie questions!
> >>
> >>
> >>        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.
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Jean Pierre Arabonis
> >> arabonis at egs.uct.ac.za
> >> Tel 021 780 1021 cell 084 401 1365
> >> This email is 100% Microsoft Free
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Jean Pierre Arabonis
> >> arabonis at egs.uct.ac.za
> >> Tel 021 780 1021 cell 084 401 1365
> >> This email is 100% Microsoft Free
> >>
>