<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">oops, you need one more keyword in your TDEF for xdfopen: <div>tdef time 731 linear 1jan1975 1dy</div><div><br></div><div>This will work assuming that the time axis in your netcdf file is called "time". If it is called something else, replace the word "time" in the TDEF with the actual name in the data file. </div><div>--Jennifer</div><div><br><div><div>On Aug 10, 2009, at 11:35 AM, hersala wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Sorry for my insistence, but when I try to concatenate in t dim<br>several nc files with 3-line descriptor files like these ones:<br><br>dset air.sig995.%y4.nc<br>options template<br>tdef 731 linear 1jan1975 1dy<br><br>or<br><br>dset air.sig995.%y4.nc<br>options template<br>tdef 731 linear 00Z01jan1975 1dy<br><br>I obtain these error message:<br><br>xdfopen daily-wis.ctl<br>Scanning Descriptor File: daily-wis.ctl<br>gadxdf error: Missing or invalid dimension size.<br>--> The invalid description file record is:<br>--> tdef 731 linear 1jan1975 1dy<br> The data file was not opened.<br><br>I´m using v2.0.a3.oga.1 for Windows<br><br>I will appreciate any help. Thanks a lot again.<br>Hernán<br><br><br><br>2009/8/8 Jennifer Adams <<a href="mailto:jma@cola.iges.org">jma@cola.iges.org</a>>:<br><blockquote type="cite">Templating with sdfopen in this way was disabled with version 2.0. To do<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">what you want, you must use xdfopen with a 3-line descriptor file:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">dset air.sig995.%y4.nc<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">options template<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">tdef 731 linear 1jan1975 1dy<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">--Jennifer<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">On Aug 7, 2009, at 9:55 PM, hersala wrote:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Dears Grads users:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Please, can someone help me with this problem: When I concatenate in t<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">dimension several .nc files using a template like this one:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">sdfopen air.sig995.1975.nc air.sig995.%y4.nc 731<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">it works perfectly with Grads v1.8 but it does not in v2.0<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Thanks in advance.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Hernan<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">--<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Jennifer M. Adams<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">IGES/COLA<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">4041 Powder Mill Road, Suite 302<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Calverton, MD 20705<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="mailto:jma@cola.iges.org">jma@cola.iges.org</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></div></blockquote></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <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 style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><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. 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