<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times, serif; ">Hi</span></span></div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times, serif; ">I tried both of them g2ctl.pl and grib2ctl.pl with wgrib and wgrib2. Still its the same error. Any other suggestions?</span></span></div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "> </div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000ff" face="arial">Anil</font></div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new
roman', 'new york', times, serif; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Arlindo da Silva <dasilva@alum.mit.edu><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Anil acharya <acharya_anil@yahoo.com>; GrADS Users Forum <gradsusr@gradsusr.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Friday, November 4, 2011 5:00 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [gradsusr] Error while using grib2ctl.pl in GRADS<br></font><br><div id="yiv1553332082">On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 6:31 PM, Anil acharya <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:acharya_anil@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:acharya_anil@yahoo.com">acharya_anil@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="yiv1553332082gmail_quote"><blockquote class="yiv1553332082gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "><div style="font-size:12pt;"><span><pre>Hi</pre><pre>I was trying to create the .ctl file for .grb files using GRADS. I came with the error message as follows:</pre><pre>"Big problem</pre><pre>either .grb file is missing or not a grib file</pre><pre></pre>
</span></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Any chance your file is a GRIB-2 file? The urilities wgrib and <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://grib2ctl.pl">grib2ctl.pl</a> assume GRIB-1. You will need wgrib2 and <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://g2ctl.pl">g2ctl.pl</a> for GRIB-2 files. Google for it.</div>
<div><br></div><div> Arlindo</div><div><br></div><div> </div></div>-- <br>Arlindo da Silva<br><a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:dasilva@alum.mit.edu" target="_blank" href="mailto:dasilva@alum.mit.edu">dasilva@alum.mit.edu</a><br>
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