[gradsusr] sdfopen on mac

[Jennifer Adams]

Please read the documentation page on creating descriptors for self-describing files at:
http://iges.org/grads/gadoc/SDFdescriptorfile.html
--Jennifer

On May 29, 2013, at 4:47 PM, Qian, JianHua wrote:

> Thanks, Jennifer!    I am not familiar with xdfopen.
> Could you give me samples of  xdfopen control and gs files, so that I can copy and paste?
> 
> Joshua
> 
> From: Jennifer Adams <jma at cola.iges.org>
> Reply-To: GrADS Users Forum <gradsusr at gradsusr.org>
> Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 14:36:28 -0400
> To: GrADS Users Forum <gradsusr at gradsusr.org>
> Subject: Re: [gradsusr] sdfopen on mac
> 
> 
> 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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