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Re: HELP!

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  • Subject: Re: HELP!
  • Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 10:18:29 -0600

guest wrote:
> 
> Dear Steve, thank you for your answer. I looked the
> http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf/faq.html#win
> and I downloaded
> ftp://ftp.unidata.ucar.edu/pub/netcdf/contrib/win32/netcdf-3.5.win32bin.ZIP
> and WIN32_README.TXT .
> I unzipp netcdf-3.5.win32bin.ZIP in my directory, then I downloaded a
> .cmp file from www.cosmic.ucar.edu/gpsmet, for example
> 95.111_025.004_cmp that on my PC appears as 95.111_025.004. At this
> time, in MS DOS, I enter on my directory and then on subdirectory bin
> where there is the ncdump.exe file. Now I run the folloving command:
> bin>ncdump 95.111_025.004 > 95.111_025.004.ascii
> and the answer is: invalid argument
> Now there is a file 95.111_025.004.ascii  but it is 0 byte.
> Please, can you help me?
> Thank in advance.
> Federico

Hi Federico, Steve asked me to help you on this.

there should be a ncdumps.exe file in that distribution
try using that instead, like:

  ncdumps 95.111_025.004
or
  .\ncdumps 95.111_025.004


This will send the output to the screen so you can see if it works right
away.
send me error message if it doesnt