<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Hi, Jeff — <div>I was unable to reproduce this error. I suggest you try downloading the file again — perhaps it got corrupted in transit.</div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: small;">ftp> get grads-2.1.a3-bin-CentOS5.11-x86_64.tar.gz</span></div><div><div><font face="Courier" size="2">local: grads-2.1.a3-bin-CentOS5.11-x86_64.tar.gz remote: grads-2.1.a3-bin-CentOS5.11-x86_64.tar.gz</font></div><div><font face="Courier" size="2">229 Entering Extended Passive Mode (|||50379|)</font></div><div><font face="Courier" size="2">150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for grads-2.1.a3-bin-CentOS5.11-x86_64.tar.gz (14059387 bytes).</font></div><div><font face="Courier" size="2">100% |***********************************************************************************************| 13729 KiB 2.24 MiB/s 00:00 ETA</font></div><div><font face="Courier" size="2">226 File send OK.</font></div><div><font face="Courier" size="2">14059387 bytes received in 00:05 (2.24 MiB/s)</font></div><div><font face="Courier" size="2">ftp> quit</font></div><div><font face="Courier" size="2">221 Goodbye.</font></div><div><font face="Courier" size="2">copper[jma]:~/junk # tar xvfz grads-2.1.a3-bin-CentOS5.11-x86_64.tar.gz </font></div><div><font face="Courier" size="2">x ./grads-2.1.a3/bin/bufrscan</font></div><div><font face="Courier" size="2">x ./grads-2.1.a3/bin/COPYRIGHT</font></div><div><font face="Courier" size="2">x ./grads-2.1.a3/bin/grads</font></div><div><font face="Courier" size="2">x ./grads-2.1.a3/bin/grib2scan</font></div><div><font face="Courier" size="2">x ./grads-2.1.a3/bin/gribmap</font></div><div><font face="Courier" size="2">x ./grads-2.1.a3/bin/gribscan</font></div><div><font face="Courier" size="2">x ./grads-2.1.a3/bin/INSTALL</font></div><div><font face="Courier" size="2">x ./grads-2.1.a3/bin/stnmap</font></div><div><font face="Courier" size="2">x ./grads-2.1.a3/bin/wgrib</font></div></div><div><br></div><div>—Jennifer</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Mar 17, 2015, at 2:50 PM, Jeff Duda <<a href="mailto:jeffduda319@gmail.com">jeffduda319@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">There appears to be an archiving error in the taball in the pre-compiled binaries for Linux.<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br>-bash-4.1$ tar -xzvf grads-2.1.a3-bin-CentOS5.11-x86_64.tar.gz<br>./grads-2.1.a3/bin/bufrscan<br>tar: ./grads-2.1.a3/bin/bufrscan: Cannot open: No such file or directory<br>./grads-2.1.a3/bin/COPYRIGHT<br>tar: ./grads-2.1.a3/bin/COPYRIGHT: Cannot open: No such file or directory<br>./grads-2.1.a3/bin/grads<br><br>gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--format violated<br>tar: Unexpected EOF in archive<br>tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 1:07 PM, Jennifer Adams <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jma@cola.iges.org" target="_blank">jma@cola.iges.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Dear All, <div>I have posted a new release of GrADS, version 2.1.a3. This is primarily a bug fix release, although there are some new features in file templating (time templates supported within CHSUB strings) and we are now supporting GRIB2 Product Definition Templates 6 and 10, for percentiles. The problems with metabuffer handling and font file initialization were causing GrADS to steadily increase its memory use … if you are using version 2.1, I would advise you to upgrade. </div><div><br></div><div>The GrADS downloads web page (<a href="http://iges.org/grads/downloads.html" target="_blank"><font style="color:rgb(0,31,223)" color="#001fdf"><u>http://iges.org/grads/downloads.html</u></font></a>) has been updated with links to the source code and pre-compiled binaries for 64-bit linux and Mac OS X. The full text from the ChangeLog is copied below.</div><div><br></div><div>—Jennifer</div><div><br></div><div>p.s. GrADS is 28 years old this year! </div><div><br></div><div>
<span style="border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px"><span style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><div>--</div><div>Jennifer M. Adams<br>Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies (COLA)<br>111 Research Hall, Mail Stop 2B3<br>George Mason University<br>4400 University Drive<br>Fairfax, VA 22030 <br><br></div><div><br></div><br></span></span><br>
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<pre>2015-03-10 Version 2.1.a3
Features:
* Added support for time template substitutions within a CHSUB string
* Added support for GRIB2 PDTs 6 and 10 (Percentiles)
Bug Fixes:
* Memory leak in metabuffer handling
* Bad error message when netcdf chunksize is bigger than cachesize
* Parsing error for netcdf files with time axis unit "minutes since..."
* Missing data handling in coll2grd function
* Unnecessary re-initialization of font files
* Core dump when using non-existing data variables in a define expression
* Memory leak for grids and stn reports when expression parsing fails
Updated Documentation Pages:
* <a href="http://iges.org/grads/gadoc/descriptorfile.html" target="_blank">http://iges.org/grads/gadoc/descriptorfile.html</a>
* <a href="http://iges.org/grads/gadoc/gradcomdsdfwrite.html" target="_blank">http://iges.org/grads/gadoc/gradcomdsdfwrite.html</a>
* <a href="http://iges.org/grads/gadoc/library.html" target="_blank">http://iges.org/grads/gadoc/library.html</a>
* <a href="http://iges.org/grads/gadoc/templates.html" target="_blank">http://iges.org/grads/gadoc/templates.html</a>
Supplib Update:
* Linked with netcdf-4.3.3
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