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On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Mark Lilly wrote: > hello i am a student at millersville university and i am trying to read a > grib message using dcgrib and then if possible write this to an ascii > file. i do not know if i should be asking you this question but if you > can help me or understand what i am asking i really appreciate it. is it > even possible. once i have used dcgrib i have done a gdlist an i can see > on the screen what i want but i am having trouble sennding it to an output > file. thanks again for your time. mark > > Mark, If you want to send the gdlist output to a file, you should set the OUTPUT parameter to f/filename. The f means send the output to a file (as opposed to T which sends it to a terminal), and filename is the output file name you want. If you omit the filename, then the output will be written to a file called gdlist.fil. Steve Chiswell Unidata User SUpport address@hidden