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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