[gradsusr] Junk bytes - still a problem but not a problem.

[James Burn]

Hi

Back in September I was posting about junk bytes at the start of GRIB2 files.

Following Jennifer's update I installed the New GrADS release 2.0.a9  
superpack but still wasn't able to access all the variables in the GFS data I 
downloaded through Curl which have something like 

--496c19465efaf12eb
Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-range: bytes 14208643-14554265/103164429

at the start before "GRIB".  My impression is this still needs to be fixed.

Having spent too long (along with, I think, John Huddleston) battling with 
Curl and Perl trying to set the header options, in the end I added a simple 

wgrib2 gfsgrb2-hd -grib gfsgrb2

to my batch file after each download which rewrites the grib files without the 
header - this only takes a second but the GRIB2 file created works perfectly.

So I'm back on track but perhaps that bug needs fixing...

Cheers
James

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