Error in data desriptor file in Win32e version of Grads

[Alessandro Mandelli]

Davide Sacchetti wrote:
> My guess is that you may have inconsistencies between ASCII files (.ctl)
> on alpha VMS and windows.
> You could try do move .ctl from win to alpha via ftp (binary) and get
> them back again from alpha to win via ftp (ascii): if it works this is
> the case.

Yes, it is probably the dreaded CR / CR+LF error.
There are free text editors capable of converting into Unix convention.
Also some command line utilities like dos2unix and unix2dos are useful in this case.