<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Please see the section titled "Supplementary Files" at <a href="http://iges.org/grads/downloads.html">http://iges.org/grads/downloads.html</a>. You need to download data2.tar.gz, untar it in your location of choice, and then set the environment variable GADDIR to point to the location of the contents. <div>--Jennifer</div><div><br><div><br><div><div>On Apr 16, 2012, at 5:08 PM, Neil Berg wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Hi all,<br><br>I recently installed grads and am able to plot the examples, but keep receiving this error message in the terminal:<br><br>Error opening stroke character data set <br> Data set names = /usr/bin/grads/font0.dat ; font0.dat<br><br>Below are the specifics of my computer and grads configuration. Thank you in advance for your help!<br><br>Neil Berg<br><br>-------<br>My computer: Mac OSX 10.6.5<br><br>Output from q config:<br><br>Config: v2.0.1 little-endian readline printim grib2 netcdf hdf4-sds hdf5 opendap-grids,stn geotiff shapefile<br>Grid Analysis and Display System (GrADS) Version 2.0.1<br>Copyright (c) 1988-2011 by Brian Doty and the<br>Institute for Global Environment and Society (IGES) <br>This program is distributed WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY <br>See file COPYRIGHT for more information. <br><br>Built Tue Oct 25 08:17:10 EDT 2011 for i386-apple-darwin9.8.0<br><br>This version of GrADS has been configured with the following options:<br> o Built on a LITTLE ENDIAN machine<br> o Athena Widget GUI DISABLED<br> o Command line editing ENABLED <br> <a href="http://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/readline/rltop.html">http://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/readline/rltop.html</a> <br> o printim command for image output ENABLED <br> <a href="http://www.zlib.net">http://www.zlib.net</a> <br> <a href="http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html">http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html</a> <br> <a href="http://www.libgd.org/Main_Page">http://www.libgd.org/Main_Page</a> <br> o GRIB2 interface ENABLED <br> <a href="http://www.ijg.org">http://www.ijg.org</a> <br> <a href="http://www.ece.uvic.ca/~mdadams/jasper">http://www.ece.uvic.ca/~mdadams/jasper</a> <br> <a href="http://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/codes/GRIB2">http://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/codes/GRIB2</a> <br> g2clib-1.2.2 <br> o NetCDF interface ENABLED <br> <a href="http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf">http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf</a> <br> netcdf 4.1.2 of Oct 4 2011 13:26:28 $ <br> o OPeNDAP gridded data interface ENABLED<br> o OPeNDAP station data interface ENABLED<br> <a href="http://iges.org/grads/gadoc/supplibs.html">http://iges.org/grads/gadoc/supplibs.html</a> <br> libgadap 2.0 <br> o HDF4 and HDF5 interfaces ENABLED <br> <a href="http://hdfgroup.org">http://hdfgroup.org</a> <br> HDF 4.2r6 <br> HDF5 1.8.7 <br> o GeoTIFF and KML/TIFF output ENABLED<br> <a href="http://www.libtiff.org">http://www.libtiff.org</a> <br> <a href="http://geotiff.osgeo.org">http://geotiff.osgeo.org</a> <br> o KML contour output ENABLED<br> o Shapefile interface ENABLED<br> <a href="http://shapelib.maptools.org">http://shapelib.maptools.org</a> <br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>gradsusr mailing list<br><a href="mailto:gradsusr@gradsusr.org">gradsusr@gradsusr.org</a><br>http://gradsusr.org/mailman/listinfo/gradsusr<br></div></blockquote></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
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