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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi all,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I`ve never used Grads before, so it`s a completely
new ball game for me!! The most ambitious I`ve been is to use a desktop utility
likes DAWS!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have several questions to ask, where the answers
could not be found on the Cola homepage.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I would like to install Grads on my server, mainly
so I can ingest and display grib data/model charts on my website. What kind of
server loads would I be looking at here? I need to know, whether my server can
cope with it it!! Can someone shed some light on using Grads on a redhat linux
based server?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Secondly, I haven`t looked through any of the
documentation as yet. I thought it might be a good idea to install the windows
version locally on my W2K PC first, so I can get an idea of how Grads
works.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I believe I have it installed correctly, but I
can`t even get off the starting block!! I tried to open the demo model.ctl
file that comes with the online tutorial - all I get are errors `Scanning
description file: model<BR>Open Error: Can't open description
file`</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Do I need to place the ctl, grib and gmp in a
certain folder? All the tutorial says is download them and place them locally.
Thanks.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Regards,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Ron.</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>