JP<br> <br> You're right I do have .dodsrc though I don't know where it came from.<br> Here it is:<br> # DODS client configuation file. See the DODS<br> # users guide for information.<br> USE_CACHE=1<br> MAX_CACHE_SIZE=20<br> MAX_CACHED_OBJ=5<br> IGNORE_EXPIRES=0<br> CACHE_ROOT=/home/mulgor/.dods_cache/<br> DEFAULT_EXPIRES=86400<br> ALWAYS_VALIDATE=0<br> # PROXY_SERVER=<protocol>,<host url><br> # PROXY_FOR=<regex>,<proxy host url>,<flags><br> # NO_PROXY_FOR=<protocol>,<host><br> <br> But I don't have a proxy server.<br> I'm connecting directly to the Internet (as far as I know).<br> I've looked at the DODS users guide, but found nothing about proxy or no_proxy.<br> <br><br><b><i>Jean Pierre Arabonis <arabonis@EGS.UCT.AC.ZA></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type"
content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1"><title></title> Hi <br> I think it is either a problem with proxy server ie where you have a file called .dodsrc in your home directory which looks somthing like:<br> <br> # DODS client configuation file. See the DODS<br> # users guide for information.<br> USE_CACHE=1<br> MAX_CACHE_SIZE=5<br> MAX_CACHED_OBJ=1<br> IGNORE_EXPIRES=0<br> CACHE_ROOT=/home/arabonis/.dods_cache/<br> DEFAULT_EXPIRES=86400<br> ALWAYS_VALIDATE=0<br> # PROXY_SERVER=<protocol>,<host url><br> # PROXY_FOR=<regex>,<proxy host url>,<flags><br> # NO_PROXY_FOR=<protocol>,<host><br> PROXY_SERVER=http,<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://cache.uct.ac.za:8080">http://cache.uct.ac.za:8080</a><br> PROXY_FOR=<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://cola8.iges.org:9090/dods/.*">http://cola8.iges.org:9090/dods/.*</a><br> PROXY_FOR=<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.monsoondata.org:9090/dods/gfs/.*">http://www.monsoondata.org:9090/dods/gfs/.*</a><br> <br> Otherwise you need to use the statically linked version of the source if you want to compile it yourself.<br> <br> Cheers<br> JP<br> <br> <br> <br> Derek Goring wrote:<br> <blockquote type="cite" cite="mid20060425094117.54636.qmail@web53905.mail.yahoo.com"> <meta http-equiv="Context-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> Hi JP<br> <br> Yes, I can ping monsoondata.org OK.<br> It appears to me that I'm getting into GrADS DODS.<br> A session opens for me in console and I can move around inside and execute various commands, except that sdfopen doesn't work, as indicated.<br> <br> But one thing that is different from DOS is that in Linux the session opens in the console, whereas in DOS a special new window opens. Actually, that's the reason I'm porting to Linux because if a server is
not available or any error occurs, that window hangs horribly and stuffs up Win XP.<br> <br> Does gradsdods need anything else other that access to data?<br> Does it need a netCDF library or something? It has access only to gradsdods at present.<br> BTW, I'm using grads-1.8sl11<br> <br> Derek<br> <br> <b><i>Jean Pierre Arabonis <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:arabonis@EGS.UCT.AC.ZA"><arabonis@EGS.UCT.AC.ZA></a></i></b> wrote: <blockquote><title></title> Hi there<br> This seems more to be a network problem, see if you can ping the monsoondata server from the box, if not then thats the area to look in, otherwise if you are behind a proxy server you may need a .dodsrc config script to point grads to go via the proxy server.<br> <br> Cheers<br> JP<br> <br> <br> <br> Derek Goring wrote:<br> <blockquote type="cite"
cite="mid20060425035404.74368.qmail@web53908.mail.yahoo.com"> I'm moving from Win XP to Linux with my GrADS DODS routines.<br> I'm a newbie in Linux, but I've managed to install gradsdods OK and once I set GIDDIR using export, it seems to open OK. However, when I try to open a file, this is what I get:<br> <br> sdfopen <a href="http://nomad3.ncep.noaa.gov:9090/dods/gfs/rotating/gfs_12z">http://nomad3.ncep.noaa.gov:9090/dods/gfs/rotating/gfs_12z</a><br> Scanning self-describing file: <a href="http://nomad3.ncep.noaa.gov:9090/dods/gfs/rotating/gfs_12z">http://nomad3.ncep.noaa.gov:9090/dods/gfs/rotating/gfs_12z</a><br> nc_open failure:<br> Invalid argument<br> does not exist or is not a netCDF file.s/rotating/gfs_12z<br> <br> Couldn't ingest SDF metadata.<br> If this was an HDF-SDS file, try gradshdf.<br> <br> Yet this same command works OK in Win XP.<br> Can anyone suggest where I'm going wrong?<br> <br> <br> <br>
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