Mark, I am back in the office from my travels now. From your previous emails, you had said that your $MODEL/eta directory was empty (or you had created it and several others to get past another hurdle?). Since the Garp_defaults file uses "eta" ad the default modelkey, it will generate the FL and GD messages if not available. Can you send the output of "ls -R $MODEL"? Steve Chiswell Unidata User Support Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: XUZ-721000 Department: Support GEMPAK Priority: Critical Status: On Hold