return status from command "open"

[Hai-Ru Chang]

Hi Danny,
               Did you use the command 'gribmap' to get a
accompany .idx file?


Dr. Hai-Ru Chang
School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA 30332-0340
tel: 404-385-4404


On Sep 17, 2007, at 9:31 AM, Daniel Fritz wrote:

> hello everyone,
>   could someone help me?  I have downloaded some data from the NCAR
> (DSS, CISL) website site because I am tracking hurricanes for a
> project . When I got my dataset(sept1 -30, 2005 and oct 1 -30 2005)
> the file is mget_ds0830_fnl.tar  ........I had to untar this data
> and it gave me a Y62277*  ......when I ran this Y62277* it was data
> which would be unreadable........I assume that this is a grib
> file...but when I tried to convert grib to ctl(Y62277*.ctl) when I
> opened it, there was nothing in it.....I am trying to run these
> files in grads......so get a display of the track of the
> Hurricane....am I using the right path???  after I untar this data
> set what is my absolute path??? when I tried to type in a script to
> run it in grads , there was an error....
>                  Danny
>
> Jennifer Adams <jma at COLA.IGES.ORG> wrote:
> Here's how the GDS does it:
>
>
> function gopen(dataset)
> 'sdfopen 'dataset
> if (!rc); say 'file opened with sdfopen'; return; endif
> 'xdfopen 'dataset
> if (!rc); say 'file opened with xdfopen'; return; endif
> 'open 'dataset
> if (!rc); say 'file opened with open'; return; endif
> say "error: couldn't open " dataset
>
>
> ga-> gopen file.ctl
>
> --
> Jennifer M. Adams
> IGES/COLA
> 4041 Powder Mill Road, Suite 302
> Calverton, MD 20705
> jma at cola.iges.org
>
>
> On Sep 17, 2007, at 4:26 AM, bernd.becker at METOFFICE.GOV.UK wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Can I sway "open" to return something to figure
>> if the file.ctl in question exists or not?
>>
>> iostat='open bob.ctl'
>>
>> say 'iostat for bob is :'iostat
>>
>> --> iostat for bob is : bob.ctl not found'
>>
>> or similar.
>>
>> many thanks,
>> Bernd.
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Bernd Becker   The Monthly Outlook
>> Met Office  FitzRoy Road  Exeter   Devon EX1 3PB  United Kingdom
>> Tel.: +44 (0) 1392 884511 Fax: +44 (0)870 900 5050
>> E-mail:bernd.becker at metoffice.gov.uk -  http://www.metoffice.gov.uk
>
>
>
>
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