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Yan, There were a couple of errors in the code, I fixed some of them. Tomorrow I'll be in meeting all day so no work. There are more errors to fix then I'll make a distribution for you to test. Robb... On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Yan Gu wrote: > Hello Mr. Kambic, > > I have some questions about "gribtonc". I have downloaded it from ucar. It > has been sucefully installed. However, when I used it to transfer a grib > file to netCDF file, I got a "Bus error". I checked the log file. It gave > me such message: > > Jan 29 16:29:36 gribtonc[724504]: Starting Up > Jan 29 16:29:36 gribtonc[724504]: test.nc: no variable for N > Jan 29 16:29:36 gribtonc[724504]: test.nc: can't get navigation > information > Jan 29 16:29:36 gribtonc[724504]: make_ncfile failed > > I checked my cdl file. The line related to this is: > > float n(nav) ; > n:long_name = "XXX" ; > n:units = "" ; > > When I used gribdump -h to get the header of my grib file, it said: > > Parameter : 71 (N) > Units : percent > > After I changed the units of n to "persent", I still got error message in > the log file. > > Jan 29 16:41:36 gribtonc[711032]: Starting Up > Jan 29 16:41:36 gribtonc[711032]: Error parsing units: persent > Jan 29 16:41:36 gribtonc[711032]: test.nc: can't get units attribute for > variable n > Jan 29 16:41:36 gribtonc[711032]: test.nc: no variable for N > Jan 29 16:41:36 gribtonc[711032]: test.nc: can't get navigation > information > Jan 29 16:41:36 gribtonc[711032]: make_ncfile failed > > Attached is the cdl file I am using and the grib file I used to test. Do > you have some clue about this and would you please help me out? > > Yan > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Yan Gu > > Sr. Computer Program Analyst > Center For Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies > Florida State University > > Express Mail: 2035 E. Paul Dirac Drive > R. M. Johnson Bldg. -Suite 233 > Tallahassee, FL32310 > > Tel: (850)644-6935 (OFFICE) (850)574-9877 (HOME) > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > =============================================================================== Robb Kambic Unidata Program Center Software Engineer III Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research address@hidden WWW: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ ===============================================================================