[gradsusr] Error in using files in grads binary format

[James Ciarlo`]

Simon,

you should open the ctl file. GrADS files are made up of 2 files: a data
file (normally binary) and a descriptor file (the ctl file). You should open
the .ctl file. So on your linux terminal enter
'grads'
<enter> # to choose between portrait and landscape
'open filename.ctl'

Depending on the format of the file you may need a different command. For
example to open netCDF files you need to input
'sdfopen filename.ctl' or 'sdfopen filename.nc'
There is also 'xdfopen'

For further help refer to http://www.iges.org/grads/gadoc/gadocindex.html

Regards,

James

On 17 December 2010 08:34, Simon Krichak <shimon at cyclone.tau.ac.il> wrote:

>  Dear colleagues,
> I just have installed an opengrads version
> grads-2.0.a9.oga.1-win32_superpack.exe
> on my laptop using Windows XP Version 2002 Service Pack 3.
> I have dowloaded the model.grb, model.gmp and model.ctl files from the
> Grads tutorial.
> Everything seems to be working fine.
> After that I took some other grads ecmwf.ctl and ecmwf.dat files which I am
> able to use on my Linux machine and tried working with them.
> The system response was as follows
> Open Error: Can't open binary data file
> File name = ecmwf.dat .
> Please advise me what esle must be installed.
> Regards,
> Simon Krichak
>
>
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