GrADS DODS Win XP -> Linux

[Jean Pierre Arabonis]

Hi
    I think it is either a problem with proxy server ie where you have a
file called .dodsrc in your home directory which looks somthing like:

# DODS client configuation file. See the DODS
# users guide for information.
USE_CACHE=1
MAX_CACHE_SIZE=5
MAX_CACHED_OBJ=1
IGNORE_EXPIRES=0
CACHE_ROOT=/home/arabonis/.dods_cache/
DEFAULT_EXPIRES=86400
ALWAYS_VALIDATE=0
# PROXY_SERVER=<protocol>,<host url>
# PROXY_FOR=<regex>,<proxy host url>,<flags>
# NO_PROXY_FOR=<protocol>,<host>
PROXY_SERVER=http,http://cache.uct.ac.za:8080
PROXY_FOR=http://cola8.iges.org:9090/dods/.*
PROXY_FOR=http://www.monsoondata.org:9090/dods/gfs/.*

    Otherwise you need to use the statically linked version of the
source if you want to compile it yourself.

    Cheers
       JP



Derek Goring wrote:

> Hi JP
>
> Yes, I can ping monsoondata.org OK.
> It appears to me that I'm getting into GrADS DODS.
> A session opens for me in console and I can move around inside and
> execute various commands, except that sdfopen doesn't work, as indicated.
>
> But one thing that is different from DOS is that in Linux the session
> opens in the console, whereas in DOS a special new window opens.
> Actually, that's the reason I'm porting to Linux because if a server
> is not available or any error occurs, that window hangs horribly and
> stuffs up Win XP.
>
> Does gradsdods need anything else other that access to data?
> Does it need a netCDF library or something?  It has access only to
> gradsdods at present.
> BTW, I'm using grads-1.8sl11
>
> Derek
>
> Jean Pierre Arabonis <arabonis at EGS.UCT.AC.ZA> wrote:
>
>     Hi there
>         This seems more to be a network problem, see if you can ping
>     the monsoondata server from the box, if not then thats the area to
>     look in, otherwise if you are behind a proxy server you may need a
>     .dodsrc config script to point grads to go via the proxy server.
>
>         Cheers
>            JP
>
>
>
>     Derek Goring wrote:
>
>>     I'm moving from Win XP to Linux with my GrADS DODS routines.
>>     I'm a newbie in Linux, but I've managed to install gradsdods OK
>>     and once I set GIDDIR using export, it seems to open OK.
>>     However, when I try to open a file, this is what I get:
>>
>>     sdfopen http://nomad3.ncep.noaa.gov:9090/dods/gfs/rotating/gfs_12z
>>     Scanning self-describing file:
>>     http://nomad3.ncep.noaa.gov:9090/dods/gfs/rotating/gfs_12z
>>     nc_open failure:
>>     Invalid argument
>>      does not exist or is not a netCDF file.s/rotating/gfs_12z
>>
>>     Couldn't ingest SDF metadata.
>>     If this was an HDF-SDS file, try gradshdf.
>>
>>     Yet this same command works OK in Win XP.
>>     Can anyone suggest where I'm going wrong?
>>
>>
>>
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