How to Convert grib to Ascii files

Wed Jun 6 10:05:32 EDT 2007

Dear list

I want to convert grib files to ascii format. Does anyone knows what i
should do?  I am using Grads in linux Slackware 10.2 distribution

I am using the follow commands to create a text file.It creates the file
without a problem but it doesn't give me the proper number of rows and
columns

convert grib files to ascii text

./wgrib -s model.grb |grep '' | '' means use all grib files

./wgrib -i -text model.grb -o asciifile.txt

from the model.grb file(from the site) i created the asciifile.txt
but the  columns are not displayed right i take this kind of text instead
72 46
669.911
669.911
669.911
669.911
669.911
669.911
669.911
669.911
669.911
669.911
 Why i get these kind of data?