grads on win XP

[Monica Ionita]

Usually one of the problems with Windows XP and Grads comes when you have
installed on windows Cygwin ( the Linux environment for Windows).
Cygwin uses the same dll files as Grads and overwrites the dll file of
Grads, making Grads mostly unusable. You can open Grads, but is rather
impossible to open the descriptor file.
I had this problem, so after I delete Cygwin and reinstall Grads everything
was O.K.
This could be one of the problems for which Grads is not opening your
descriptor file.

Monica Ionita