Now I understand. Yes it has worked. Thank you for you kind help and patience<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 11 February 2011 15:55, Jennifer Adams <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jma@cola.iges.org">jma@cola.iges.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">James,<div><br><div><div class="im"><div>On Feb 11, 2011, at 9:09 AM, James Ciarlo` wrote:</div>
<br><blockquote type="cite"><div>I opened grads and entered '<a href="http://script.gs" target="_blank">script.gs</a>' and got this:</div><div> <div><span style="border-collapse:collapse;font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div>
Warning: OPTIONS keyword "template" is used, but the</div><div> DSET entry contains no substitution templates.</div></span></div></div></blockquote></div>This is harmless. </div><div><br></div><div><div class="im">
<blockquote type="cite"><div><div><span style="border-collapse:collapse;font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px"> <div><br></div><div>And I also acquired the file 7hA01.out.bin</div></span></div></div></blockquote></div>
Good...<div class="im"><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><div><span style="border-collapse:collapse;font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div><br></div><div>Then I ran the script <a href="http://control.gs" target="_blank">control.gs</a>, that is: </div>
</span></div></div></blockquote></div><div>No. Now that you have a binary data file, the contents of what you call '<a href="http://control.gs" target="_blank">control.gs</a>' is a data descriptor file that describes what's in your binary file. Descriptor files usually have a ".ctl" extension. To read this data with GrADS, you use the open command: </div>
<div><br></div><div>ga-> open 7hA01.ctl</div><div><br></div><div>where 7hA01.ctl contains this: </div><div class="im"><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div><span style="border-collapse:collapse;font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div>
<span style="color:rgb(80, 0, 80);font-size:19px"><font face="Courier" size="3"><span style="font-size:12px">dset ^7hA01.out.bin</span></font><div> <font face="Courier" size="3"><span style="font-size:12px">undef -9.99e8</span></font></div>
<div><font face="Courier" size="3"><span style="font-size:12px">xdef 1 linear 1 1</span></font></div><div><font face="Courier" size="3"><span style="font-size:12px">ydef 1 linear 1 1</span></font></div> <div><font face="Courier" size="3"><span style="font-size:12px">zdef 1 linear 1 1</span></font></div>
<div><font face="Courier" size="3"><span style="font-size:12px">tdef 755 linear 0Z01JAN1948 1mo</span></font></div> <div><font face="Courier" size="3"><span style="font-size:12px">vars 1</span></font></div><div><font face="Courier" size="3"><span style="font-size:12px">var 0 99 var</span></font></div>
<div><font face="Courier" size="3"><span style="font-size:12px">endvars</span></font></div> </span></div></span></div><div><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>I STRONGLY suggest you take some time to read the User's guide, and then run through the tutorial before continuing. </div>
<div><a href="http://iges.org/grads/gadoc" target="_blank">http://iges.org/grads/gadoc</a></div><div><br></div><div>--Jennifer</div></div><br></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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