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<DIV>Eyal,</DIV>
<DIV>I had the same problem and it took a long time to figure out, but the fix is simple.</DIV>
<DIV>Directly under your root drive create a empty directory named "tmp".</DIV>
<DIV>So if GRADs is installed on your c drive, create c:\tmp</DIV>
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<DIV>Even if there is already a directory named c:\temp, create the new one anyway.</DIV>
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<DIV>Everything should work fine after that. You can search the GRADs User Group on-line archives using the string "failed assertion stream" to find all the details of why this solves the problem.</DIV>
<DIV>--<BR>Thanks, <BR>Mark</DIV>
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<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">-------------- Original message -------------- <BR><BR>> Hi, <BR>> <BR>> Lately I have downloaded and installed latest Grads from here: <BR>> http://www.iges.org/grads/downloads.html <BR>> <BR>> When I run gradsdods.exe, after the two windows open, I type the following <BR>> command: <BR>> <BR>> sdfopen <BR>> http://nomad3.ncep.noaa.gov:9090/dods/reanalyses/reanalysis-1/6hr/pgb/pgb <BR>> <BR>> and get the following message before the program shut down automatically: <BR>> <BR>> Scanning self-describing file: <BR>> http://nomad3.ncep.noaa.gov:9090/dods/reanalyses/reanalysis-1/6hr/pgb/pgb <BR>> assertion "stream" failed: file "Connect.cc", line 1083 <BR>> 4 [sig] GradsDODS 1684 open_stackdumpfile: Dumping stack trace to <BR>> GRADS~1.dll.stackdump <BR>> <BR>> My Grads version is: v1.8SL11 32-bit for windows and I run in parallel <BR
>> X-win32 5.4, but I get the same error message even when I run the program <BR>> that does not require X server for windows. <BR>> My OS version is WinXP PRO SP2, but I got the same error message after <BR>> installing Grads on Win 98SE and win 2000 (and on a Linux machine as well). <BR>> Even trying connecting from different networks didn't help (or while being <BR>> completely disconnected from the net), same message again. <BR>> Trying to connect to any of the other servers gets the same error message <BR>> and even when I use any other url such as http://www.hotmail.com, for <BR>> instance. <BR>> <BR>> GradsNC.exe seems to work properly. I can open files and produce maps. <BR>> <BR>> Googling about this problem didn't help. <BR>> <BR>> Does anyone have an idea what causes this problem, why it seems like I'm the <BR>> only one who has it (regardless what OS, computer or network I use) and what <BR>> I can to in order to
be able to solve this problem? <BR>> <BR>> I'll be glad to hear any new suggestions, since I've run out of them. <BR>> <BR>> Thanks a lot in advance! <BR>> <BR>> Eyal. </BLOCKQUOTE></body></html>