mixed non-float vars

[Ming Pan]

Hi,

I'm having trouble reading files with mixed types of non-float data,
and here are the records in the control file:

v1 0  -1,40,1 variable 1
v2 0  -1,40,2 variable 2
v3 0  99 variable 3

GrADS (2.0.a5) can not correctly locate the records in file except for
the first variable. I went through some of the source code and it
seems that the starting position of variables is only tracked in terms
of grid elements (gavar->offset) and never tracked in actual bytes (?)
Anyone has a solution? (Or a patch is needed?)

ming