Re: 20000124: gribtonc decoder (fwd)

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Robb Kambic                                Unidata Program Center
Software Engineer III                      Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research
address@hidden             WWW: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/
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Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 21:35:10 +0000 (GMT)
From: David J. Knight <address@hidden>
To: Robb Kambic <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: 20000124: gribtonc decoder

Rob,
     Well, that was easy! Just had to add
netcdf/bin to the $path and it worked fine
from the command line. I expect it will work
now from the ldm as well.
Thanks!
David

> On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Unidata Support wrote:
> 
> > >To: address@hidden
> > >cc: address@hidden
> > >From: "David J. Knight" <address@hidden>
> > >Subject: gribtonc decoder
> > >Organization: .
> > >Keywords: 200001241809.LAA08729
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm trying to file grib products in netcdf format in prepration for
> > testing the mettapps grid file veiwer. But it's not working for me...
> > 
> > Here is my entry in pqact.conf:
> > # file in netcdf format for metapps application testing
> > HRS     ^[YZ].Q... KWB. ([0-3][0-9])([0-2][0-9]).*/mETA
> >         PIPE    /unidata/bin/gribtonc
> >                 -v -l /nmc2/nmc2/gribtonc.log
> >                 /unidata/ldm-5.0.8/etc/eta.cdl
> >                 /nmc2/nmc2/(\1:yy)(\1:mm)\1\2_eta.nc
> > HRS     ^[YZ].Q... KWB. ([0-3][0-9])([0-2][0-9]).*/mETA
> >         FILE    /nmc2/nmc2/(\1:yy)(\1:mm)\1\2_eta.netcdf
> > 
> > These are the errors I'm getting:
> > 
> > Jan 24 02:37:34 gribtonc[4136]: Starting Up
> > Jan 24 02:37:34 gribtonc[4136]: can't run "ncgen -o
> 
> David,
> 
> Yep, you need to have ncgen to run gribtonc.  If fact you need to install
> NetCDF and udunits to build gribtonc. If you already have NetCDF and
> udunits installed, then the $PATH variable needs to be able to find the
> ncgen.  It's a good test to run gribtonc from the command line first,
> catches many of the errors.  The NetCDF package is on our UPC home page,
> the udunits package is with the NetCDF package.
> 
> Robb...
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > /nmc2/nmc2/00012400_eta.nc /
> > unidata/ldm-5.0.8/etc/eta.cdl"
> > Jan 24 02:37:34 gribtonc[4136]: can't create or size 0 output netCDF
> > file /nmc2/
> > nmc2/00012400_eta.nc, exiting
> > Jan 24 02:37:34 gribtonc[4136]: Exiting
> > Jan 24 02:37:34 gribtonc[4136]: 0 WMO msgs, 0 GRIBs decoded, 0 written
> > 
> > It appears that the netcdf grid file cannot be created. I get the same
> > error message when attempting to manually decode the grib file.
> > 
> > I don't think it is a permission problem - there is no problem creating
> > files in that directory.
> > 
> > Is ncgen supposed to be a seperate executable? If so that might be the
> > problem since I don't have it...
> > 
> > I'm running ldm5.08 on Solaris2.6 with decoders-2.3.6.
> > 
> > Can you help?
> > Thanks
> > David
> > 
> > 
> > David Knight
> > Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences   Tel: (518)-442-4204
> > SUNYA   ES-228                                 Fax: (518)-442-4494
> > Albany, NY  12222                              Email: address@hidden
> > 
> 
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> Robb Kambic                              Unidata Program Center
> Software Engineer III                    Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research
> address@hidden                   WWW: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/
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