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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thankyou,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have the datafiles all in the same directory. I
have placed them in the main Grads folder, and tried in just about every other
folder too but I still get the error.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I can`t think of anything else to try!! I`ve been
waiting to play around with Grads for ages, but find this frustrating that I
can`t even get off the starting block :D</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Is there a specific place where the datafiles (ctl,
grib) should go?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Ron.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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<A title=arabonis@EGS.UCT.AC.ZA href="mailto:arabonis@EGS.UCT.AC.ZA">Jean
Pierre Arabonis</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=GRADSUSR@LIST.CINECA.IT
href="mailto:GRADSUSR@LIST.CINECA.IT">GRADSUSR@LIST.CINECA.IT</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, November 14, 2005 12:25
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Newbie questions!</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Hi Bob<BR> Welcome to grads, firstly I feel
that grads is better suited to the linux environment - besides being basically
anti-windows, you'll find a lot of the users of grads are working in a
unix/linux environment and user support is probably better in that area,
further for automation of grads scripts, linux is very flexible (which seems
to be your ultimate goal).<BR> It seems though there have
been some library issues with recent versions of grads on certain flavours of
linux, red hat does not seem to be one of them but a trawl of the
archives should resolve any compatibility issues.<BR> With
regard to load, thats going to depend on your input files and what you do with
them, however grads is very stable and will generally complete the task
without falling over. I have grads running on an old 450 MHz P2 running
scripts and it works just fine.<BR> With regard to your
problem with the model file it seems to me to be a path problem, the data file
and ctl file must be in the same directory.<BR> Good
Luck<BR> Jean Pierre<BR>
<BR><BR>Bob wrote:<BR>
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<DIV>Hi all, </DIV>
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<DIV>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!
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<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>I have several questions to ask, where the answers could not be found
on the Cola homepage. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>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? </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>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. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>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` </DIV>
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<DIV>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. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Regards, </DIV>
<DIV>Ron. </DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><PRE class=moz-signature cols="72">--
Jean Pierre Arabonis
<A class=moz-txt-link-abbreviated href="mailto:arabonis@egs.uct.ac.za">arabonis@egs.uct.ac.za</A>
Tel 021 780 1021 cell 084 401 1365
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