<div dir="ltr">Thank you so much for the input.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 9:30 AM, Krishnakumar AP <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:krishnaap7@gmail.com" target="_blank">krishnaap7@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>And you don&#39;t have to use control file(ctl) in order to use nc files in grads.<br></div>Firstly, go to your working directory by using change directory command in your terminal(of course you are using MacOS, i didn&#39;t get first time)<br></div>cd documents<br>cd grads<br>sdfopen <a href="http://nhsce_v01r01_19661004_20140602.nc" target="_blank">nhsce_v01r01_19661004_20140602.nc</a><br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div>By<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>    Krishnakumar.AP<br>   </font></span></div></div><div><div class="h5">
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 11:51 PM, Krishnakumar AP <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:krishnaap7@gmail.com" target="_blank">krishnaap7@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>its better to locate your terminal to the folder in which your .nc file exists, so you can simply avoid entering the complete path as<br>&quot; ~/Documents/grads/<a href="http://nhsce_v01r01_19661004_20140602.nc/" target="_blank">nhsce_v01r01_19661004_20140602.nc&quot; </a><br></div>Are you doing in windows btw?<br><div><a href="http://nhsce_v01r01_19661004_20140602.nc/" target="_blank"></a></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div>By<span><font color="#888888"><br>    Krishnakumar.AP<br>   </font></span></div></div><div><div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 12:56 AM, Ipshita Majhi <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:ipmajhi@alaska.edu" target="_blank">ipmajhi@alaska.edu</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Thank you</div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 9:53 AM, Jennifer M Adams <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:jadams21@gmu.edu" target="_blank">jadams21@gmu.edu</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">



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<div>I am new to grads. I am trying to open a .nc file but it is not able to.Should I create a .ctl file to open it. Any guidance will be appreciated.Listed below is what i am trying to do.</div>
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<div dir="ltr">ga-&gt; sdfopen ~/Documents/grads/<a href="http://nhsce_v01r01_19661004_20140602.nc/" target="_blank">nhsce_v01r01_19661004_20140602.nc</a></div>
<div dir="ltr">Scanning self-describing file:  ~/Documents/grads/<a href="http://nhsce_v01r01_19661004_20140602.nc/" target="_blank">nhsce_v01r01_19661004_20140602.nc</a></div>
<div dir="ltr">Error: nc_open failed to open file ~/Documents/grads/<a href="http://nhsce_v01r01_19661004_20140602.nc/" target="_blank">nhsce_v01r01_19661004_20140602.nc</a></div>
<div dir="ltr">No such file or directory</div>
<div dir="ltr">gadsdf: Couldn&#39;t ingest SDF metadata.</div>
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