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

[James Burn]

Hi

Oops. So when I enter gribmap at the command line it opens gribmap 2.0.a7.1 

My scripts apparently were using this version from my /usr/bin folder not the 
opengrads version 2.0.a9.oga.1 in my opengrads folder

My paths must be getting muddled somewhere - and/or I should have deleted the 
older version when upgrading.

I haven't checked it yet, but I'm sure you're right.

Sorry to mess you about. Thanks for your help again!

James



On Wednesday 08 Dec 2010 11:56:04 Jennifer Adams wrote:
> 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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> Jennifer M. Adams
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