<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff, font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;font-size:14pt">James, <br><br> You cannot open the 7hA0.out.bin file directly as you attempted. You need to open it via a Control file that was done by Jennifer. The control file is:<font face="Courier" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><br>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><br class="yui-cursor"><span></span><div> </div><div id="RTEContent"><div><div><b><em>===================================================</em></b></div><div><b><em><font color="#007f40" face="lucida console, sans-serif">ZABLONE OWITI<br></font><font face="garamond, new york, times, serif">GRADUATE STUDENT<br>Nanjing University of Information, Science and Technology<br>College of Atmospheric Science<br>Add: 219 Ning Liu Rd, Nanjing, Jiangsu, 21004, P.R. China<br></font></em></b><font color="#333333" face="garamond, new york, times, serif">Tel: +86-25-58731402<br>Fax: +86-25-58731456</font></div><div><b><em><font face="garamond, new york, times, serif">Mob. 15077895632</font></em></b></div><div><b><em>Website: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank"
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bold;">From:</span></b> James Ciarlo` <james.ciarlo@physics.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> GrADS Users Forum <gradsusr@gradsusr.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> <br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Friday, 11 February 2011 6:40 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [gradsusr] opening text file data<br></font><br> <div id="yiv694554510"><div>Hi, </div><div><br></div><div>sorry I took long to answer. Thank you all for your help</div><div><br></div><div>Jennifer, I have copied the first script you wrote into a <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://script.gs">script.gs</a>, and the second into a dummy.ctl</div>
<div>Then I opened grads and ran <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://script.gs">script.gs</a> and got the following error:</div><div><br></div><div>Warning: OPTIONS keyword "template" is used, but the</div><div> DSET entry contains no substitution templates.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Then I changed the contents of dummy.ctl to the third set and ran <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://script.gs">script.gs</a> and I obtained 7hA01.out.bin</div><div>However when I tried using open with grads I got the following error</div>
<div><br></div><div><div>ga-> open 7hA01.out.bin</div><div>Scanning description file: 7hA01.out.bin</div><div>Open Error: Unknown keyword in description file</div><div> --> The invalid description file record is:</div>
<div> --> o-ER`0Ej.Eá¦3E=E3;E;E5:E{7E¤ø1E\31Eá0Eáº+Eͼ+EÍL5E2E)<9Eu;Eׯ;Eq)<EH=EÉ2E</div><div>û9EìY1E¤¨2E-Eq¥/E\[6Ef6Eìq9Ef¦;E)ô=E</div><div> The data file was not opened.</div></div><div><br></div><div>James</div>
<div><br></div><br><div class="yiv694554510gmail_quote">On 9 February 2011 18:27, Jennifer Adams <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:jma@cola.iges.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:jma@cola.iges.org">jma@cola.iges.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="yiv694554510gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div style="word-wrap: break-word;">James, <div>Before GrADS can handle your data, you need to convert it from text to binary. Try something like this: </div><div><br></div><div><div><font face="Courier" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px;">'open dummy.ctl'</span></font></div>
<div><font face="Courier" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px;">file=7hA01.out.txt</span></font></div><div><font face="Courier" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px;">nlinesinfile=755</span></font></div><div><font face="Courier" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px;">i=1</span></font></div>
<div><font face="Courier" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px;">'set gxout fwrite'</span></font></div><div><font face="Courier" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px;">'set fwrite 7hA01.out.bin'</span></font></div>
<div><font face="Courier" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px;">while (i<=nlinesinfile)</span></font></div><div><font face="Courier" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px;"> res = read(file)</span></font></div><div><font face="Courier" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px;"> line2=sublin(res,2)</span></font></div>
<div><font face="Courier" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px;"> val = subwrd(line2,2)</span></font></div><div><font face="Courier" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px;"> 'd 'val</span></font></div><div><font face="Courier" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px;"> i=i+1</span></font></div>
<div><font face="Courier" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px;">endwhile</span></font></div><div><font face="Courier" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px;">'disable fwrite'</span></font></div></div><div><br></div>
<div>...dummy.ctl looks like this:</div><div><div><br></div><div><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><font face="Courier">dset foo</font></span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><font face="Courier">options template</font></span></font></div>
<div><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><font face="Courier">undef -9.99e8</font></span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><font face="Courier">xdef 1 linear 1 1</font></span></font></div>
<div><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><font face="Courier">ydef 1 linear 1 1</font></span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><font face="Courier">zdef 1 linear 1 1</font></span></font></div>
<div><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><font face="Courier">tdef 755 linear 0Z01JAN1948 1mo</font></span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><font face="Courier">vars 1</font></span></font></div>
<div><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><font face="Courier">foo 0 99 foo</font></span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><font face="Courier">endvars</font></span></font></div></div><div>
<br></div><div>... and your new GrADS data set looks like this: </div><div><br></div><div><div><font face="Courier" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px;">dset ^7hA01.out.bin</span></font></div><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><div><br></div></div><div><br></div><div>--Jennifer</div><div><div></div><div class="yiv694554510h5"><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>
<div>On Feb 7, 2011, at 10:48 AM, James Ciarlo` wrote:</div></div></div><div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><div></div><div class="yiv694554510h5">Hi,<div><br></div><div>I have several text files such as the one I attached and I need to open them which GrADS but I cannot understand how to do so. Can someone help me please?</div>
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