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The index files should be usable on both big and little endian machines. I will look into why this feature is no longer working in version 2.0. N.B. GrADS 1.9 cannot handle index files created with the gribmap in GrADS 2.0.<div><br><div><div>Jennifer</div><div><br><div><div><br><div><div>On May 11, 2008, at 8:25 PM, Arlindo da Silva wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Jennifer,<div><br></div><div> In GrADS v1 the index file created by gribmap used to endianess-portable. The same index file could be used on both little and big-endian machines alike. I just tried the *.idx file created on my Mac PPC with "a2" and it does not work on Linux. If I rerun gribmap on Linux it produces a different idx file, and now GrADS v2 can read my Grib-2 file just fine. </div> <div><br></div><div> Being able to use the same idx on different machine is very important for people distributing data on DVDs. <br clear="all"><br></div><div> Arlindo</div><div><br>-- <br>Arlindo da Silva<br><a href="mailto:dasilva@alum.mit.edu">dasilva@alum.mit.edu</a> </div></blockquote></div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div>--</div><div>Jennifer M. Adams</div><div>IGES/COLA</div><div>4041 Powder Mill Road, Suite 302</div><div>Calverton, MD 20705</div><div><a href="mailto:jma@cola.iges.org">jma@cola.iges.org</a></div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></span></span> </div><br></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>