GrADS interested new user

[Heiner Körnich]

By the way, you can run GrADS nice and easy on windows. No need to get
your hands dirty. Otherwise, there are numerous precompiled packets for
linux on the GrADS-webpage. You might have to try several, but no big
installation is needed.

Greetings,
Heiner

Kevin wrote:
> I`ve been reading the plethora of posts in this news group,  and i
> have decided I should give GrADS a try.
>
> I am by no means an expert in linux in fact I know very little, but I
> have copies of FC3 and FC4 on disk, plus a spare pc I can install
> these onto.
>
> I`ve been a windows person most of my pc life, enoying the simple
> point and click life. I guess I should get my hands dirty with some linux.
>
> I want to ingest gfs and nam grib datasets, but the GrADS docs look
> rather challenging. Putting together a ctl and index file looks
> confusing enough, if not mind boggling for me!
>
> Also, does anyone know of a GrADS build for FC4 or would I be better
> using FC3?
>
> Thank you.
> Kevin.
>
>

--
Heiner Körnich
Dept. of Meteorology            Tel:  +46 8 164333
Stockholms University, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
Email: heiner at misu.su.se   www.misu.su.se/~heiner/