Re: cdl file for eta ST

On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, Todd Fake wrote:

> 
> Robb,
> 
> I finally solved the problem I was having trying to extract additional
> fields using the gribtonc utility. When I modified the cdl file the
> gribtonc utility would fail if the netcdf file being generated already
> existed. This failure wasn't clear because the verbose output still
> would say that fields already existing in the cdl file were extracted
> but the new ones were not. So after trouble shooting and making sure I
> had the new fields to be extracted defined properly I had success when I
> deleted the netcdf output file before generating a new one after
> modifying the cdl file. 
> 

Todd,

That is a glitch but usually the output file name should be changed on
each invocations.  I'll add this message to the decoders support archive
so other can have access to it and I'll make a note of it for future
answers.

Thanks,
Robb... 


> You should make note of this so if this question arises with anyone else
> you or someone else can make this simple recomendation to aid them. 
> 
> Thanks,
> Todd Fake
> 
> 
> 
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