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GEMPAK users, There is an extra entry in the $GEMTBL/grid/grdnav.tbl for grid number 703, which is identical in navigation to grid number 3 at the top of the file. When using dcgrib2 in GEMPAK 5.10.4 to automatically name the GFS grib2 file using the grid number template, the 703 grid number may be used. To avoid this, comment out the line (eg insert a "!" at the beginning of the line 10 up from the bottom) in grdnav.tbl that starts with: GG01 703. Steve Chiswell Unidata User Support -- Steve Chiswell <address@hidden> Unidata