Re: [Opengrads-devel] New Win32 GrADS build

[See H. O. <ax...@ya...>]

Dear Mr Arlindo,

     Thank you.

     The outcome of my testing your
grads-1.9.0-rc.win32_superpack.exe is as follows:-

    (1) as compared with you zip package, I have to
select grads classic or grads netCDF-3 or netCDF-4 in
order to run .grb or .nc file appropriately.  [In your
zip package, I just type grads in the command window
and run either .grb or .nc file easily.]
    (2) q udft shows no listing of the table at all.
    (3) your gex folder in win32 is empty.
    (4) when I run your utFish.gs,  'psi', 'chi',
'fish' are shown as not a variable or function name.
    (5) when I tried you re() function, re is shown to
be not a variable or function name.  Also, gxyat is an
unknown command.

      Lastly, yesterday I emailed you that I am
puzzled by the streamfunction output by using fish(). 
The pattern, as compared with an example from an
article, looks similar but the signs and magnitudes
are vastly different.  I am pleased to reproduce below
my email text with the attached example for your
consideration and help.

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Dear Mr Arlindo da Silva,

     For days, I have been puzzled by the output of
streamfunction using your fish() in the GrADS
v1.9.0-rc1 (windows).  By chance, I happened to see a
700 hPa streamfunction example in an article on Afican
Easterly Wave.  I used the NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis data
to reproduce the example shown.  As shown in my
attachment, you can notice the followings:-
     (1) Both patterns look similar.
     (2) The signs and magnitudes of streamfunction
generated from GrADS are vastly different from those
in the example figure.
     (3) In the GrADS generated example, values west
of 0 degree longitude are absent.

      Where did I go wrong ? Please help.
------------------------

      Thank you and best regards.


OOI See-hai



--- Arlindo da Silva <da...@al...> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
>   I have a new Win32 build at
> 
>
http://opengrads.org/pre-rel/win32/grads-1.9.0-rc.win32_superpack.exe
> 
> that I hope fixes several of the issues some of you
> have reported:
> 
> 1) Xmin should now start automatically (meaning some
> of the mods I made
> could solve this problem that some of you had).
> 
> 2) The "!" command in grads should work
> 
> 3) The "^" as in "DSET ^filename" in ctl files
> should work now
> 
> 4) Other niceties: Setup.exe type of installation,
> PATH is now set
> automatically, can be uninstalled from control
> pannel.
> 
> A main change is that the suggested default
> installation directory is
> "C:\GrADS19", so that v2 could later be installed
> under C:\GrADS20. I plan
> to post this new build on sf.net in the next couple
> of days, unless I hear
> from you of major problems.
> 
> BTW, despite the Setup.exe installation, the whole
> package should still be
> relocatable to mem stick or whatever.
> 
>   Let me know of any problems.
> 
>   Thank you,
> 
>      Arlindo
 


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