[gradsusr] Help new to grads

[Bo Qu]

Thanks very much for your guidance, Eric.
Best Regards
Bo

On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 1:49 AM, Eric Altshuler <ela at cola.iges.org> wrote:

> Bo,
>
> GADDIR specifies the path to the directory containing font files, map
> outline data, udunits.dat, etc. These files are needed by grads for almost
> all its operations, and they should be included in the Opengrads packages.
> I'm not too familiar with Opengrads, but the windows version is supposed to
> be relocatable so it should not be necessary to change GADDIR. In
> particular, do not set GADDIR to the path to your own data. Instead, do
> something along these lines:
>
> sdfopen d:/seaice/data/filename.nc
>
> You don't need to install udunits as long as GADDIR is set properly.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Eric L. Altshuler
> Assistant Research Scientist
> Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies
> 4041 Powder Mill Road, Suite 302
> Calverton, MD 20705-3106
> USA
>
> E-mail: ela at cola.iges.org
> Phone: (301) 902-1257
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>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bo Qu" <qubo62 at gmail.com>
> To: "GrADS Users Forum" <gradsusr at gradsusr.org>
> Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2010 10:26:20 PM
> Subject: Re: [gradsusr] Help new to grads
>
> Hi,
> I got a new problem here. After I changed the environment variable
> GADDIR to my data file folder which is in D drive, such as
> D:/seaice/data/, I tried to open my nc data file using sdfopen
> statement, it tells me that udunits(3): couldn't open units darabase
> "D:/seaice/data/udunits.dat", no such file or directory. It seems I need
> to install udunits and how to do it and how to make the file directory
> working? I am in my window 7 operation system.
>
> Many thanks
> Bo
>
>
>
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