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- GrADS 1.7 Binary Distribution
-
- Mike Fiorino
- PCMDI/LLNL
- fiorino@llnl.gov
-
- Brian Doty
- COLA/IGES
- doty@cola.iges.org
-
- Arlindo da Silva
- DAO/GSFC/NASA
- arlindo@niteroi.gsfc.nasa.gov
-
- Don Hooper
- CIRES/CDC/NOAA
- hoop@cdc.noaa.gov
-
- and the other GrADS Developers
- gradsdev@cdc.noaa.gov
-
- 14 November, 1997
-
-
-
- Introduction
- ------------
-
- This is the binary component of the GrADS distribution. You'll
- need the version 1.6+ data files (geography, fonts and symbols)
- to run this version. See the GrADS-VVV/README above for more information.
-
-
- Contents of GrADS-VVV/bin/
- --------------------------
-
- This are the standard executables that come with the binary distribution:
-
- GrADS:
-
- gradsnc - Full featured GrADS using the UNIDATA netCDF libraries
- gradshdf - Full featured GrADS using the NCSA netCDF/HDF libraries
- gradsc - Classic GrADS - no LATS, GUI, SDF or netcdf (readline only)
- grads - link to gradshdf
-
- GrADS Utilities:
-
- gxps - convert grads meta graphics to postscript level 1
- gxtran - display grads meta graphics
- gribmap - GRIB mapping utility
- gribscan - GRIB scanning utility
- stnmap - station data mapper
-
- Contributed Utilities:
-
- gxeps - grads meta graphics to EPS utility
- gxgif - grads meta graphics to GIF utility
- wgrib - GRIB lister/processor from NCEP (see wesley.wwb.noaa.gov)
-
-
- New Features of GrADS 1.7:
-
- LATS (Mike Fiorino):
- --------------------
-
- Interface to the Library for AMIP data Transmission Standards
- (LATS) allowing GrADS to output GRIB and/or netCDF (unidata (gradsnc) or
- HDF SDF (grasdhdf)
-
- http://www-pcmdi.llnl.gov/software/lats
-
-
- SDF/XDF (Don Hooper):
- ---------------------
-
- Open netCDF/HDF-SDF COARDS compliant files
-
- http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/~hoop/grads3.html
-
-
- External scriptable GUI (Arlindo da Silva):
- -------------------------------------------
-
- Add a GUI to GrADS
-
- ftp://niteroi.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/win32/grads/doc/gagui_intro.html
-
-
-
- Hints
- -----
-
- Running GrADS or the GrADS the utilities with the "-help" command line
- option will list command line options.
-
- Running the Contributed Utilities with NO command line options
- will list the options.
-
-
- What's Next
- -----------
-
- To get started with GrADS see,
-
- http://kuala.llnl.gov/grads/grads.starting_points.htm
-
- or
-
- http://grads.iges.org/grads
-