Dear all,<br> <br> The following problem occured running GrADS v1.9b4 on redhad linux. It does not occur running GrADS v1.8SL11 on the same machine (see q config outputs below).<br> <br> When I try to open my file I get the following error:<br> <meta http-equiv="CONTENT-TYPE" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><title></title><meta name="GENERATOR" content="OpenOffice.org 1.1.2 (Linux)"><meta name="CREATED" content="20060621;10261400"><meta name="CHANGED" content="20060621;18102800"> <style> <!-- @page { size: 8.27in 11.69in; margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } --> </style> <pre>ga-> open SKN_JUL-1994.ctl Scanning description file: SKN_JUL-1994.ctl Open Error: Missing or invalid dimension increment value --> The invalid description file record is: --> ZDEF 197 linear 99.00 -0.50</pre> The control file is as follows:<br> <meta http-equiv="CONTENT-TYPE" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><title></title><meta
name="GENERATOR" content="OpenOffice.org 1.1.2 (Linux)"><meta name="CREATED" content="20060621;10261400"><meta name="CHANGED" content="20060621;18102800"> <style> <!-- @page { size: 8.27in 11.69in; margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } --></style><meta http-equiv="CONTENT-TYPE" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><title></title><meta name="GENERATOR" content="OpenOffice.org 1.1.2 (Linux)"><meta name="CREATED" content="20060622;11383700"><meta name="CHANGED" content="16010101;0"> <style> <!-- @page { size: 8.27in 11.69in; margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } --> </style> <pre>DSET ^SKN_JUL-1994.bin TITLE 'REG-999-SKN02' 'AFM05-AES02' 18-JUL-1994 UNDEF -999.0 XDEF 1 linear -101 1 YDEF 1 linear 56 1 ZDEF 197 linear 99.00 -0.50 TDEF 64 linear 21z18JUL1994 8hr VARS 12 ht 197 99 geopotential height ps 197 99 atmospheric pressure atemp 197 99 air temperature dtemp 197 99 dewpoint temperature wdir 197 99 wind direction wspeed 197
99 wind speed u 197 99 u_compnt_wind_veloc v 197 99 v_compnt_wind_veloc ptemp 197 99 potential temperature eptemp 197 99 equivalent potential temperature mixr 197 99 mix ratio rhum 197 99 rel_hum ENDVARS<span style="font-family: arial;"><br><br></span>My q config output on the system showing this error is: </pre><style> <!-- @page { size: 8.27in 11.69in; margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } --> </style> <pre>Config: v1.9b4 32-bit little-endian readline lats printim Grid Analysis and Display System (GrADS) Version 1.9b4 Copyright (c) 1988-2005 by Brian Doty and IGES Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies (COLA) Institute for Global Environment and Society (IGES) This program is distributed WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY See file COPYRIGHT for more information. Built Mon May 23 13:17:11 EDT 2005 for i686-pc-linux-gnu This version of GrADS has been configured with the following options: o This is a 32-bit LITTLE ENDIAN machine version. o Command line editing
(readline) ENABLED. o CIRES/CDC (http://www.cdc.noaa.gov) SDF/XDF interface DISABLED. This version is NOT configured to read NetCDF/HDF-SDS files. o DTYPE netcdf and DTYPE hdfsds are DISABLED. o OPeNDAP (a.k.a. DODS) gridded data interface DISABLED. o OPeNDAP (a.k.a. DODS) station data interface DISABLED. o PCMDI (http://www-pcmdi.llnl.gov) LATS interface ENABLED. This version is configured to write GRIB files (but no NetCDF/HDF files). o DAO (http://dao.gsfc.nasa.gov) Athena Widget GUI DISABLED. o NRL/DAO/PCMDI XA or ImageMagick Image Output DISABLED. o printim command for direct png/gif output ENABLED. (via the GD Library -- http://www.boutell.com/gd)</pre> Output for q config in v8.1, which does not show the error is:<br> <br> <meta http-equiv="CONTENT-TYPE" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><title></title><meta name="GENERATOR" content="OpenOffice.org 1.1.2 (Linux)"><meta name="CREATED" content="20060621;10261400"><meta
name="CHANGED" content="20060621;18102800"> <style> <!-- @page { size: 8.27in 11.69in; margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } --> </style> <pre>Config: v1.8SL11 32-bit little-endian readline printim Grid Analysis and Display System (GrADS) Version 1.8SL11 Copyright (c) 1988-2001 by Brian Doty Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies Institute for Global Environment and Society Built on 12/17/02 by joew (Linux 2.2.16-22smp #1 SMP Tue Aug 22 16:39:21 EDT 2000) This version of GrADS has been configured with the following options: o This is a 32-bit LITTLE ENDIAN machine version. o Command line editing (readline) ENABLED. o CIRES/CDC (http://www.cdc.noaa.gov) SDF/XDF interface DISABLED. This version is NOT configured to read NetCDF/HDF-SDS files. o URI DODS interface DISABLED. o PCMDI (http://www-pcmdi.llnl.gov) LATS interface DISABLED. This version is NOT configured to write GRIB or NetCDF/HDF-SDS files. o DAO
(http://dao.gsfc.nasa.gov) Athena Widget GUI DISABLED. o NRL/DAO/PCMDI XA or ImageMagick Image Output DISABLED. o printim command for direct png/gif output ENABLED. (via the GD Library -- http://www.boutell.com/gd)</pre> <br> Any thoughts?<br> <br> Thank you!<br> <br> Brandon<br> <p> 
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