<div>I had a similar problem with gradsdods using 1.8SL11, try upgrading to grads 1.9b4, it seemed to work for me.</div>
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<div>Dan<br><br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/5/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Derek Goring</b> <<a href="mailto:nztideman@yahoo.co.nz">nztideman@yahoo.co.nz</a>> wrote:</span>
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<div style="DIRECTION: ltr">Running gradsdods on Debian Linux, I get this invalid argument error with sdfopen:<br><br>Config: v1.8SL11 32-bit little-endian readline sdf/xdf netcdf DODS-enabled latsprintim<br><br>Issue 'q config' command for more information.
<br><br>Landscape mode? (no for portrait): l<br>GX Package Initialization: Size = 11 8.5<br>ga-> sdfopen <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://nomad3.ncep.noaa.gov:9090/dods/gfs/rotating/gfs_12z" target="_blank">
http://nomad3.ncep.noaa.gov:9090/dods/gfs/rotating/gfs_12z</a><br>Scanning self-describing file: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://nomad3.ncep.noaa.gov:9090/dods/gfs/rotating/gfs_12z" target="_blank">
http://nomad3.ncep.noaa.gov:9090/dods/gfs/rotating/gfs_12z</a><br>nc_open failure:<br>Invalid argument<br><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://nomad3.ncep.noaa.gov:9090/dods/gfs/rotating/gfs_12z" target="_blank">
http://nomad3.ncep.noaa.gov:9090/dods/gfs/rotating/gfs_12z</a> does not exist or isnot a netCDF file.<br><br>Couldn't ingest SDF metadata.<br>If this was an HDF-SDS file, try gradshdf.<br><br>What is going wrong?<br><br><br>
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