<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Dec 16, 2009, at 5:58 PM, Dan Schwarzkopf wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>what was the rationale for removing the template option in grads 2.0 ?<br></div></blockquote>The I/O layer that used to be in sdfopen was removed because it was leaky and led to seg faults, particularly when using templating. Hoop has written a GrADS script that very nearly duplicates the behavior of the templating feature in sdfopen. Please see: </div><div><div><a href="ftp://grads.iges.org/grads/scripts/sdfopent.gs">ftp://grads.iges.org/grads/scripts/sdfopent.gs</a></div></div><div><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>the need to use control files instead of sdfopen for our (GFDL) timeseries files (which use<br>a 365 day calendar) make the 2.0 version essentially useless.<br></div></blockquote>You would likely find GrADS to be even more useless if you discovered it was opening a file and setting the initial time incorrectly. There was a problem with using the udunits library to determine the initial time for 365_day_calendar files (udunits doesn't support no_leap calendars). So, rather than have it be wrong, we ask the user to provide the accurate time axis info. This is a known problem for many of the netcdf files in the IPCC AR4 archive. </div><div><br></div><div>Jennifer</div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><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></body></html>