<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">James,<div><br><div><div>On Feb 11, 2011, at 9:09 AM, James Ciarlo` wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>I opened grads and entered '<a href="http://script.gs">script.gs</a>' and got this:</div><div> <div><span class="Apple-style-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>This is harmless. </div><div><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div><span class="Apple-style-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>Good...<br><blockquote type="cite"><div><div><span class="Apple-style-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">control.gs</a>, that is: </div></span></div></div></blockquote><div>No. Now that you have a binary data file, the contents of what you call 'control.gs' 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><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><div><span class="Apple-style-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>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">http://iges.org/grads/gadoc</a></div><div><br></div><div>--Jennifer</div></div><br></div></body></html>