[gradsusr] g2ctl command

[Ethan Sacoransky]

Hey Aaron. Thanks so much for the reply.
I am using a Mac OSX 10.7.5. Tried changing the file extension to .pl and got the same error.
Ethan

On 2014-02-11, at 7:39 PM, Perry, Aaron @ LSC wrote:

> Hi Ethan,
> 
> What OS are you using? If you're using a Linux system, save it with the .pl file extension. The issue is probably because it's trying to read a Perl script that's saved in a .rtf word document file format.
> 
> 
> Onward and Upward,
> 
> Aaron D. Perry
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> Lyndon State College '16
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> From: gradsusr-bounces at gradsusr.org [gradsusr-bounces at gradsusr.org] on behalf of Ethan Sacoransky [ethansmith0898 at gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2014 7:39 PM
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> Subject: [gradsusr] g2ctl command
> 
> Good evening everyone,
> 
> Trying to generate a control file using g2ctl which i have in a rich text format file from this link: ftp://ftp.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/wd51we/g2ctl/g2ctl.  When i try to run the './g2ctl.rtf gfs_4_20140112_1200_009.grb2>gfs_4_20140112_1200_009.ctl' command I get these error messages. Any help would be really appreciated. 
> 
> ./g2ctl.rtf: line 1: {rtf1ansiansicpg1252cocoartf1138cocoasubrtf510: command not found
> ./g2ctl.rtf: line 2: syntax error near unexpected token `}'
> ./g2ctl.rtf: line 2: `{\fonttbl\f0\fmodern\fcharset0 Courier;}'
> 
> Thanks so much,
> ES
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