<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><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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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><div class="Ih2E3d">
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<div>P:\>set PATH=c:\Program Files\PCGrADS19\win32;%PATH%</div>
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</div><div class="Ih2E3d"><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><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div><div>Scanning description file: c:\Program</div>
</div></blockquote><div><br></div><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>
<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);">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>
<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);"> 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>
<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);"> Arlindo</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><br>
</span></div><div><br></div></div><br>-- <br>Arlindo da Silva<br><a href="mailto:dasilva@alum.mit.edu">dasilva@alum.mit.edu</a>