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<DIV>Arlindo,</DIV>
<DIV>One other thing I notoiced, somewhat unrelated:</DIV>
<DIV>Xming stays active in the toolbar when one quits Grads. So if you fire up another grads session errors start displaying as grads tries to start a second Xming session. </DIV>
<DIV>--<BR>Thanks, <BR>Mark</DIV>
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<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">-------------- Original message -------------- <BR>From: Arlindo da Silva <dasilva@ALUM.MIT.EDU> <BR>
<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 4:10 PM, Mark Sponsler <<A href="mailto:msponsler@comcast.net">msponsler@comcast.net</A>> wrote:<BR>
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<DIV>Hi Arlindo, </DIV>
<DIV>Yeah - this is a tricky bug. </DIV>
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<DIV>OK - here's the result of trying to get to model_25.gdf</DIV>
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<DIV>Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]<BR>(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.</DIV>
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<DIV>P:\>set PATH=c:\Program Files\PCGrADS19\win32;%PATH%</DIV>
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<DIV>P:\>gradsc -l<BR>Starting X server under /Xming<BR>Starting gradsc under c:\PROGRA~1\PCGRAD~2\win32 ...</DIV>
<DIV>Grid Analysis and Display System (GrADS) Version 1.9.0-rc1<BR>Copyright (c) 1988-2007 by Brian Doty and IGES<BR>Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies (COLA)<BR>Institute for Global Environment and Society (IGES)<BR>GrADS comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY<BR>See file COPYRIGHT for more information</DIV>
<DIV>Config: v1.9.0-rc1 32-bit little-endian readline lats athena printim</DIV>
<DIV>Issue 'q config' command for more information.</DIV>
<DIV>GX Package Initialization: Size = 11 8.5<BR></DIV></DIV>
<DIV>ga-> g2_open model_25.gdf<BR>Scanning description file: model_25.gdf<BR>Open Error: Can't open description file<BR></DIV>
<DIV>ga-> g2_open c:\Program Files\PCGrADS19\data\model_25.gdf </DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<DIV>Scanning description file: c:\Program</DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<DIV><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="COLOR: rgb(153,0,0)">This is the reason why I no longer default to "c:\Progran Files" anymore: GrADS does not handle spaces in file names too well. In this case it is taking "c:\Program" as the filename. Since we are trying desperately get something that works first (then make it robust), let's start GrADS from where the data is:</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="COLOR: rgb(153,0,0)">cd c:\Program Files\PCGrADS19\data</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="COLOR: rgb(153,0,0)">grads</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="COLOR: rgb(153,0,0)">ga-> g2_open model_25.gdf</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="COLOR: rgb(153,0,0)">ga-> g2_verb <---- this is a separate command</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="COLOR: rgb(153,0,0)">ga-> d g2(tmpprs)</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="COLOR: rgb(153,0,0)"><BR></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="COLOR: rgb(153,0,0)">(or else refer to the file as "c:\progra~1\pcgrads19\data\model_25.gdf" as in the old ms-dos days.)</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="COLOR: rgb(153,0,0)"> At this point I am trying to sort out if you have a problem generating the gdf/inv pair, or whether for some strange reason grib2.gex cannot read these on your machine. I'll try your gdf/inv's on my windows box and see what happens.</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="COLOR: rgb(153,0,0)"> Arlindo</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><BR></DIV></DIV><BR>-- <BR>Arlindo da Silva<BR><A href="mailto:dasilva@alum.mit.edu">dasilva@alum.mit.edu</A> </BLOCKQUOTE></body></html>