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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>
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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! </div>
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<div> I have several questions to ask, where the answers could not be
found on the Cola homepage. </div>
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<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>
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<div> Regards, </div>
<div> Ron. </div>
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Tel 021 780 1021 cell 084 401 1365
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