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

[Jennifer Adams]

The 'junk bytes' bug was fixed in gribmap. Did you rerun gribmap with  
2.0.a9 before opening your file?
--Jennifer

On Dec 7, 2010, at 7:49 PM, James Burn wrote:

> 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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