<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">You must change your tdef from <div> tdef 1 linear 12z18jan1980 00hr</div><div>to <br><div> tdef 1 linear 12z18jan1980 1hr</div><div><br></div><div>The time increment cannot be 00hr, it must be greater than zero. The '1hr' I wrote is just a suggestion -- it could also be 12hr, 1dy, etc. It depends on your own particular data.</div><div>--Jennifer</div><div><br><div><div>On Oct 11, 2010, at 1:00 AM, Geeta Geeta wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div class="hmmessage" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; ">Hi jennifer,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>Thanks Once again.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>ga-> reinit<br>No hardcopy metafile open<br>All files closed; all defined objects released<br>All GrADS attributes have been reinitialized<br>ga-> !stnmap -help<br>stnmap for GrADS Version 1.8SL11<br><br>Create the "map" file for using station data in grads<br><br>Command line options:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br> -help Just this help<br> -i the data descriptor file (.ctl) to map<br> -v turn ON verbose listing<br> -q very quiet mode<br> -0 DO NOT READ - used for templating and no variation in variables<br> -MLLLL for -0 set max number of levels LLLL (e.g., -M1000 for 1000 levels)<br> -1 create a machine specific version 1 map<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br> -2 create a machine-INDEPENDENT version 2 map (the default for 1.8SL11 and above<br><br> Example:<br><br> stnmap -i station_data.ctl<br> stnmap -0 -M100 -i station_data.ctl ; do not read the data<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>ga-> !stnmap -i stn.ctl<br><font size="3" style="font-size: 12pt; "><b>Open Error: 0 time increment in tdef<br> use 1 for single time data<br> --> The invalid description file record is:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br> --> tdef 1 linear 12z18jan1980 00hr<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br> The data file was not opened.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>File name is: stn.ctl<br>ga-><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></font><br><br>My ctl file is already posted.<br>Kindly help me getting out of this problem.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>geeta<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>gradsusr mailing list<br><a href="mailto:gradsusr@gradsusr.org">gradsusr@gradsusr.org</a><br><a href="http://gradsusr.org/mailman/listinfo/gradsusr">http://gradsusr.org/mailman/listinfo/gradsusr</a><br></div></span></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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