Roland, UPC has been looking into the HDS problem with pqcat. The NWS has indeed changed the format on some of the GRIB products. See message below. At this time the NWS change is still under investigation. Robb... =============================================================================== Robb Kambic Unidata Program Center Software Engineer III Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research address@hidden WWW: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ =============================================================================== ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 10:00:33 -0600 From: Russ Rew <address@hidden> To: Robb Kambic <address@hidden> Subject: Re: more alden info Robb, See the message from Dan Vietor at http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/glimpse/ldm-users-list/3664 --Russ