Thanks again for your help with using xcd_run to ingest and decode the GRIB eta grids I got from COMET, things worked fine. Each grid took about 20 minutes to decode on our IBM RS6000 machine: -rw-r--r-- 1 mcidas usr 18921516 Mar 15 18:42 GRID5016 -rw-r--r-- 1 mcidas usr 15158372 Mar 15 18:59 GRID5026 -rw-r--r-- 1 mcidas usr 18921516 Mar 15 18:04 GRID5035 -rw-r--r-- 1 mcidas usr 18921516 Mar 15 19:21 GRID5036 -rw-r--r-- 1 mcidas usr 15158372 Mar 15 18:21 GRID5045 -rw-r--r-- 1 mcidas usr 15133936 Mar 15 19:38 GRID5046 -rw-r--r-- 1 mcidas usr 27005963 Mar 15 17:47 HRS.SPL Anyway, glad I know how its done, this is _very_ useful. Jennie
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