<br>A ctl file or control file is a text file which describes the parameters and format of the binary data used by grads. Only with a ctl file you are able to plot a gridded binary data (except for some cases such as nc files). Here I am attching a sample ctl file used for plotting binary data. You will be able to plot nc files without a ctl file. It is by gradsnc. Kindly go through the grads tutorial for a better undestanding.....
<br>with best wishes....<br> JKPR<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 6, 2008 11:41 AM, baby liz <<a href="mailto:babyliz_leia@yahoo.com">babyliz_leia@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
May i know what kind of control file is dat?<div class="Ih2E3d"><br><br><b><i>brian vant-hull <<a href="mailto:brianvanthull@YAHOO.COM" target="_blank">brianvanthull@YAHOO.COM</a>></i></b> wrote: </div><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">You'd probably be happier displaying the data in IDL<br>if you're already doing the programming.<br><br>If you must display in GrADS, you will need to write a<br>'control' file that describes the data. Look in the
<br>User's Guide under documentation on the home page.<br>Once you've worked with that a bit, the group can help<br>you with specific problems. But a blanket question<br>like that has no simple answer and would take pages of
<br>reply. Get started with the documentation first.<br><br></div><div class="Ih2E3d">--- baby liz wrote:<br><br>> Hie...<br>> I'm working on my thesis involving TOMS data<br>> which are in binary codes...I am supposed to use IDL
<br>> to do programming and sort out the binary<br>> codes...Then, I would like to use
GrADS to display<br>> the data...May I know how can I do dat?Thanks...<br>><br>><br>> ---------------------------------<br>> Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with<br>> Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now.
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