<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">The message "Can't open binary data file" means that the file can't be opened -- it doesn't mean anything is missing. Check the path. <div><br></div><div>DSET ^foo.dat -- GrADS will look in the same directory where the descriptor is located</div><div>DSET foo.dat -- GrADS will look only in the directory where it is running</div><div>DSET /full_path_to/foo.dat -- The best way to be sure that GrADS will open the file you want</div><div><br></div><div>If you are still getting the "Can't open binary data file" message, and you are sure the path is your DSET entry is correct, it means GrADS doesn't have read permission for the file in question, or it doesn't exist. </div><div><br></div><div>Also, with GRIB files, make sure you have run gribmap to create the index file before opening the descriptor file with GrADS. </div><div>--Jennifer</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><div><div>On Dec 17, 2010, at 2:34 AM, Simon Krichak 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 bgcolor="#ffffff"><div><font face="Arial" size="2">Dear colleagues,</font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2">I just have installed an opengrads version grads-2.0.a9.oga.1-win32_superpack.exe</font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2">on my laptop using Windows XP Version 2002 Service Pack 3.</font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2">I have dowloaded the model.grb, model.gmp and model.ctl files from the Grads tutorial.</font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2">Everything seems to be working fine.</font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2">After that I took some other grads ecmwf.ctl and ecmwf.dat files which I am able to use on my Linux machine and tried working with them.</font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2">The system response was as follows</font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2">Open Error: Can't open binary data file</font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2">File name = ecmwf.dat .</font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2">Please advise me what esle must be installed.</font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2">Regards,</font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2">Simon Krichak</font></div><blockquote style="padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; margin-right: 0px; "><div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></blockquote>_______________________________________________<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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