[gradsusr] reading files directly from ftp's

[Arlindo da Silva]

On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 11:45 PM, Saulo Carvalho <spc_meteor at yahoo.com.br>wrote:

>
> Dear grads users,
>
> Does Grads read files directly from ftp's?
>

Not directly. Here is a couple of things that you can do, depending on your
OS:

1) Mount the ftp site as a filesystem. On windows this can done directly, on
linux/mac os x you can use FUSE/MacFUSE with the ftp file system plugin.

2) Use wget or curl to fetch the ftp file and save it locally. This could be
done with a gs script that would issue a "wget" if the file same starts with
ftp://, and open the file locally.


> So far as I Know,  one can read files from http's.
>

Not really generic http://, just the URLs that implement the opendap
protocol.

   Arlindo


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Arlindo da Silva
dasilva at alum.mit.edu
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