<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Sara,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">In the future, please post NCL usage questions to <a href="mailto:ncl-talk@ucar.edu">ncl-talk@ucar.edu</a>. You need to subscribe first:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><a href="http://mailman.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/ncl-talk">http://mailman.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/ncl-talk</a><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="">The ncl-install list is for installation questions on NCL.</div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><div class="gmail_default"><br class="">What happens if you run "ncl_filedump" on the file instead of ncdump?</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">ncl_filedump <a href="http://geos_ftsc_accri.cam2.h1.2005-07-01-00000.nc/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">geos_ftsc_accri.cam2.h1.2005-07-01-00000.nc</a><span style="font-size:12.8px"> </span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="">--Mary</div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 10:58 PM, Farrell, Sara <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:slfarrel@live.unc.edu" target="_blank">slfarrel@live.unc.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi,<br>
<br>
I’ve been using the command ncl -x ./scriptname to open this however I keep getting a message<br>
<br>
"fatal:syntax error: line 1 in file ./<a href="http://geos_ftsc_accri.cam2.h1.2005-07-01-00000.nc" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">geos_ftsc_accri.cam2.h1.2005-07-01-00000.nc</a> before or near<br>
CDF<br>
---^<br>
fatal:error in statement”<br>
<br>
I tried inspecting the file using the command “ncdume filename | more” and looked in line 1 however am unsure what to fix. This is what it says<br>
<br>
"netcdf geos_ftsc_accri.cam2.h1.2005-07-01-00000 {“<br>
<br>
Thanks for any help - let me know if you need more information<br>
<br>
Best,<br>
Sara<br>
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