I'm guessing that means Grads is not installed in /usr/local, which is assumed by default. If this is the case, you can set the environment variable GADDIR to the directory that contains that data file and see if it works then.<br>
<br>Jeff Duda<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 4:39 AM, nitin patil <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nitinpatil85@gmail.com" target="_blank">nitinpatil85@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
copy this file to particular path as mentioned by you.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 3:06 PM, Francisco Saimone <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:francisco.saimone@gmail.com" target="_blank">francisco.saimone@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5">Dear GrADS users,<div><br></div><div>I am trying to open a netcdf file in GrADS, and gives me the following error:</div>
<div><br></div><div><div>ga-> sdfopen <a href="http://GLDAS_VIC10_M.A197901.001.nc" target="_blank">GLDAS_VIC10_M.A197901.001.nc</a></div>
<div>Scanning self-describing file: <a href="http://GLDAS_VIC10_M.A197901.001.nc" target="_blank">GLDAS_VIC10_M.A197901.001.nc</a></div><div>udunits(3): Couldn't open units database "/usr/local/lib/grads/udunits.dat": No such file or directory</div>
<div>gadsdf: UDUNITS package initialization failure.</div><div><br></div><div>please help!</div><span><font color="#888888"><div><br></div>-- <br>FRANCISCO P. SAIMONE<br>Agronomist<br>..................<br>
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<br></blockquote></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>Regards,<br>Mr. Nitin Patil <br>Ph.D. Research Scholar,<br>Centre of Excellence in Climate Studies,<br>Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay,<br>
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