problem in opening grads ctl file

[Andrew Tupper]

Dear Anil,

I had a similar problem and it was solved by doing a dos2unix on the ctl
file to change the line endings.

regards Andrew Tupper

At 06:33 AM 12/08/2006, anil kumar rohilla wrote:

>   dear users, i have one problem in opening grads ctl file in grads on
> windows i am giving correct path and all still it is giving this error
> ,,my ctl file is like this
>
>dset C:\KAN.DAT
>undef 1.e35
>xdef  198 linear  66.2752  0.1460
>ydef  192 linear    7.2560  0.1355
>zdef  30 linear 1 1
>tdef        33 linear  0z01jul2006  3hr
>vars  11
>U              30 0 U Compoment of wind
>V              30 0 V Component of wind
>W              30 0 W Component of wind
>TC              30 0 Temperature in C
>P              30 0 Pressure (HPa)
>Z              30 0 Height (m)
>RH              30 0 Relative Humidity (diagnostic)
>SMOIS            4 0 SOIL MOISTURE
>HGT            0  0 Terrain Height
>RAINC          0  0 ACCUMULATED TOTAL CUMULUS PRECIPITATION
>RAINNC          0  0 ACCUMULATED TOTAL GRID SCALE PRECIPITATION
>endvars
>
>
>it is giving this error
>ga-> open c:\kan.ctl
>Scanning description file:  c:\kan.ctl
>Open Error:  Looking for ENDVARS statement
>             Instead, found:
>   --> The invalid description file record is:
>   --> endvars
>
>   The data file was not opened.
>i know i am doing some mistake ,,please help me
>
>anil
>ANIL KUMAR( METEOROLOGIST)
>LRF SECTION
>NATIONAL CLIMATE CENTER
>ADGM(RESEARCH)
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>anilkumar at imdpune.gov.in
>

Andrew Tupper
a/Supervising Meteorologist
Bureau of Meteorology, Darwin, Australia
Ph: +61 8 8920 3872
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