[gradsusr] * * * New Release: GrADS 2.1.a3 * * *

[Jennifer Adams]

Hi, Jeff — 
I was unable to reproduce this error. I suggest you try downloading the file again — perhaps it got corrupted in transit.

ftp> get grads-2.1.a3-bin-CentOS5.11-x86_64.tar.gz
local: grads-2.1.a3-bin-CentOS5.11-x86_64.tar.gz remote: grads-2.1.a3-bin-CentOS5.11-x86_64.tar.gz
229 Entering Extended Passive Mode (|||50379|)
150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for grads-2.1.a3-bin-CentOS5.11-x86_64.tar.gz (14059387 bytes).
100% |***********************************************************************************************| 13729 KiB    2.24 MiB/s    00:00 ETA
226 File send OK.
14059387 bytes received in 00:05 (2.24 MiB/s)
ftp> quit
221 Goodbye.
copper[jma]:~/junk # tar xvfz grads-2.1.a3-bin-CentOS5.11-x86_64.tar.gz 
x ./grads-2.1.a3/bin/bufrscan
x ./grads-2.1.a3/bin/COPYRIGHT
x ./grads-2.1.a3/bin/grads
x ./grads-2.1.a3/bin/grib2scan
x ./grads-2.1.a3/bin/gribmap
x ./grads-2.1.a3/bin/gribscan
x ./grads-2.1.a3/bin/INSTALL
x ./grads-2.1.a3/bin/stnmap
x ./grads-2.1.a3/bin/wgrib

—Jennifer


On Mar 17, 2015, at 2:50 PM, Jeff Duda <jeffduda319 at gmail.com> wrote:

> There appears to be an archiving error in the taball in the pre-compiled binaries for Linux.
> 
> -bash-4.1$ tar -xzvf grads-2.1.a3-bin-CentOS5.11-x86_64.tar.gz
> ./grads-2.1.a3/bin/bufrscan
> tar: ./grads-2.1.a3/bin/bufrscan: Cannot open: No such file or directory
> ./grads-2.1.a3/bin/COPYRIGHT
> tar: ./grads-2.1.a3/bin/COPYRIGHT: Cannot open: No such file or directory
> ./grads-2.1.a3/bin/grads
> 
> gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--format violated
> tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
> tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
> 
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 1:07 PM, Jennifer Adams <jma at cola.iges.org> wrote:
> Dear All, 
> I have posted a new release of GrADS, version 2.1.a3. This is primarily a bug fix release, although there are some new features in file templating (time templates supported within CHSUB strings) and we are now supporting GRIB2 Product Definition Templates 6 and 10, for percentiles. The problems with metabuffer handling and font file initialization were causing GrADS to steadily increase its memory use … if you are using version 2.1, I would advise you to upgrade. 
> 
> The GrADS downloads web page (http://iges.org/grads/downloads.html) has been updated with links to the source code and pre-compiled binaries for 64-bit linux and Mac OS X. The full text from the ChangeLog is copied below.
> 
> —Jennifer
> 
> p.s. GrADS is 28 years old this year! 
> 
> --
> Jennifer M. Adams
> Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies (COLA)
> 111 Research Hall, Mail Stop 2B3
> George Mason University
> 4400 University Drive
> Fairfax, VA 22030 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 2015-03-10  Version 2.1.a3
>     Features:
>     * Added support for time template substitutions within a CHSUB string
>     * Added support for GRIB2 PDTs 6 and 10 (Percentiles) 
> 	
>     Bug Fixes:
>     * Memory leak in metabuffer handling
>     * Bad error message when netcdf chunksize is bigger than cachesize
>     * Parsing error for netcdf files with time axis unit "minutes since..." 
>     * Missing data handling in coll2grd function 	
>     * Unnecessary re-initialization of font files 
>     * Core dump when using non-existing data variables in a define expression
>     * Memory leak for grids and stn reports when expression parsing fails
> 
>     Updated Documentation Pages:
>     * http://iges.org/grads/gadoc/descriptorfile.html
>     * http://iges.org/grads/gadoc/gradcomdsdfwrite.html
>     * http://iges.org/grads/gadoc/library.html
>     * http://iges.org/grads/gadoc/templates.html
>   
>     Supplib Update:	
>     * Linked with netcdf-4.3.3
> 	
> 
> 
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> 
> -- 
> Jeff Duda
> Graduate research assistant
> University of Oklahoma School of Meteorology
> Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms
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Jennifer M. Adams
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George Mason University
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