<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">What version of GrADS are you running, what operating system are you running on, and what is the output from q config ?--Jennifer<div><br><div><div>On Nov 18, 2010, at 12:42 AM, saiguran loisulie wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Hi<br><br>I used the g2ctl script to generate a ctl file for a grb2 data file successfully.<br><br>But when I tried:<br>gribmap -0 -i pgbh01.gdas.197904.ctl <br> AND<br>gribmap -v -b -i pgbh01.gdas.197904.ctl <br><br>I got this error message:<br><br>Open Error: Data file type invalid<br> --> The invalid description file record is: <br> --> dtype grib2<br> The data file was not opened.<br><br>Here is part of my ctl file content<br><br>dset ^pgbh01.gdas.197904.grb2<br>index ^pgbh01.gdas.197904.grb2.idx<br>undef 9.999E+20<br>title pgbh01.gdas.197904.grb2<br>#<br>#<br>#<br>dtype grib2<br>ydef 361 linear -90.000000 0.5<br>xdef 720 linear 0.000000 0.500000<br>tdef 1 linear 00Z01apr1979 1mo<br><br>Any idea what might be wrong?<br><br>Thanks,<br>saiguran<br><br>Saiguran Loisulie<br> Climate Systems Analysis Group<br> Environmental and Geographical Science Department<br> University of Cape Town<br> Private Bag X3<br> Rondebosch<br> 7701 <br> SOUTH AFRICA<br> <br> CELL 0748 068 230</td></tr></tbody></table><br> _______________________________________________<br>gradsusr mailing list<br><a href="mailto:gradsusr@gradsusr.org">gradsusr@gradsusr.org</a><br>http://gradsusr.org/mailman/listinfo/gradsusr<br></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>