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

Tue Mar 17 16:00:42 EDT 2015

Same error. It looks like you are using FTP to get the file. I'm using
wget. What's the FTP address and user/pass to get it the way you are?

Jeff

On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 2:52 PM, Jennifer Adams <jma at cola.iges.org> wrote:

> 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*
>> <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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>
>
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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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Jeff Duda
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University of Oklahoma School of Meteorology
Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms
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