<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">The 'junk bytes' bug was fixed in gribmap. Did you rerun gribmap with 2.0.a9 before opening your file? <div>--Jennifer<br><div><br><div><div>On Dec 7, 2010, at 7:49 PM, James Burn wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Hi<br><br>Back in September I was posting about junk bytes at the start of GRIB2 files.<br><br>Following Jennifer's update I installed the New GrADS release 2.0.a9 <br>superpack but still wasn't able to access all the variables in the GFS data I <br>downloaded through Curl which have something like <br><br>--496c19465efaf12eb<br>Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8<br>Content-range: bytes 14208643-14554265/103164429<br><br>at the start before "GRIB". My impression is this still needs to be fixed.<br><br>Having spent too long (along with, I think, John Huddleston) battling with <br>Curl and Perl trying to set the header options, in the end I added a simple <br><br>wgrib2 gfsgrb2-hd -grib gfsgrb2<br><br>to my batch file after each download which rewrites the grib files without the <br>header - this only takes a second but the GRIB2 file created works perfectly.<br><br>So I'm back on track but perhaps that bug needs fixing...<br><br>Cheers<br>James<br><br>-- <br><a href="http://www.weatherbadger.com">http://www.weatherbadger.com</a><br>_______________________________________________<br>gradsusr mailing list<br>gradsusr@gradsusr.org<br>http://gradsusr.org/mailman/listinfo/gradsusr<br></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></div></body></html>