[gradsusr] sdfopen on mac

[Hoop]

Alternatively, there is the "sdfopent" script in the standard library;
it reproduces the original three argument syntax:

ftp://cola.gmu.edu/grads/scripts/sdfopent.gs

-Hoop

On 05/29/13 12:41, gradsusr-request at gradsusr.org wrote:
> Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 14:41:33 -0400
> From: Jennifer Adams <jma at cola.iges.org>
> Subject: Re: [gradsusr] sdfopen on mac
> To: GrADS Users Forum <gradsusr at gradsusr.org>
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> Turns out I did mention this is the sdfopen doc page under the Usage Notes.
> But I made the notice a little more prominent now. --Jennifer
> 
> On May 29, 2013, at 2:36 PM, Jennifer Adams wrote:
> 
>>
>> On May 29, 2013, at 2:16 PM, Qian, JianHua wrote:
>>
>>> Dear Grads users,
>>>
>>> When I use sdfopen on my Mac OS X laptop:
>>> sdfopen uwnd.1979.nc uwnd.%y4.nc 10958
>> This syntax was deprecated with GrADS 2.0. Unfortunately, I never updated the documentation to
> indicate this change. If you want to template netcdf files, you have to use
xdfopen or open.
>>>
>>> It only read data in uwnd.1979.nc,  but not the data in uwnd.1980.nc and after, with errors like:
>>>  set t          627
>>> Time values set: 1980:9:18:0 1980:9:18:0 
>>>  d uwnd
>>> Data Request Warning:  Request is completely outside file limits
>>>   Entire grid contents are set to missing data
>>>
>>> It worked on other computers, but not on mac (but I have only mac now).
>> You did not specify, but you must be using a very old verison of GrADS on those other computers? 
>>
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>> Joshua
>>>
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