<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi, Howard -- <div>The warnings may not be related to the cause of the crash. Can you send me (not gradsusr) a copy of your bufr file so I can do some testing on my own? </div><div>--Jennifer</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Oct 1, 2009, at 5:08 PM, Howard Berger wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Hello,<br>I'm trying to read what I think is a very complex bufr file.<br>My ctl file looks like this:<br>DSET ^layermean_bufr.20090921.18.nh<br>TITLE AMV Layer Mean Data<br>DTYPE bufr<br>UNDEF -999.0<br>TVAR yr 4,1 mo 4,2 dy 4,3 hr 4,4<br>STID 1,31<br>XVAR 6,1<br>YVAR 5,1<br>ZVAR 7,4<br>TDEF 6 linear 18z21sep2009 1hr<br>VARS 3<br>amvlon 1 6,1 AMV Longitude<br>amvlat 1 5,1 AMV Latitude<br>amvpre 1 7,4 AMV Assigned Pressure<br>ENDVARS<br><br>When I start grads I type:<br>open bufr.ctl<br>d amvpre;<br>I then get:<br>warning: ignoring unsupported operator F=2 X=22 Y=0<br>warning: ignoring unsupported operator F=2 X=37 Y=0<br>warning: ignoring unsupported operator F=2 X=22 Y=0<br>warning: ignoring unsupported operator F=2 X=36 Y=0<br>warning: ignoring unsupported operator F=2 X=22 Y=0<br>warning: ignoring unsupported operator F=2 X=37 Y=0<br>warning: ignoring unsupported operator F=2 X=22 Y=0<br>that repeates over and over again until grads crashes.<br><br>When I look at the bufrscan for the F=2 X=22,36,37 I see:<br>2 22 000 (operator)<br>2 36 000 (operator)<br>2 37 000 (operator)<br><br>Any thoughts on what's going on?<br><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I'm using grads version 2.0.a5 on a mac 10.5<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Am I doing something wrong or is my bufr file bad?<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Thanks!<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Howard<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. 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></div></span> </div><br></div></body></html>