<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Karin is right. Just change to the directory containing the hdf file and issue the following command (assuming your OS is linux/unix-like),<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">“cat &lt;yourFileName&gt;”</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It will show you something like:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(76, 47, 45); background-color: rgb(246, 245, 212);" class="">&lt;!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN"&gt;</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(76, 47, 45); background-color: rgb(246, 245, 212);" class="">&lt;html&gt;&lt;head&gt;</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(76, 47, 45); background-color: rgb(246, 245, 212);" class="">&lt;title&gt;403 Forbidden&lt;/title&gt;</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(76, 47, 45); background-color: rgb(246, 245, 212);" class="">&lt;/head&gt;&lt;body&gt;</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(76, 47, 45); background-color: rgb(246, 245, 212);" class="">&lt;h1&gt;Forbidden&lt;/h1&gt;</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(76, 47, 45); background-color: rgb(246, 245, 212);" class="">&lt;p&gt;You don't have permission to access /MODV6_Dal_C/MOLT/MOD14.006/2014.04.20/MOD14.A2014110.0405.006.2015276113431.hdf</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(76, 47, 45); background-color: rgb(246, 245, 212);" class="">on this server.&lt;/p&gt;</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(76, 47, 45); background-color: rgb(246, 245, 212);" class="">&lt;/body&gt;&lt;/html&gt;</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">which means you didn’t have permission to download that file but you didn’t pay attention. That is the content of the file you posted in ncl-talk.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Jack</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 16 Oct 2015, at 13:21, Kunal Bali &lt;<a href="mailto:kunal.bali9@gmail.com" class="">kunal.bali9@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">No , Its not corrupt. I downloaded again and got the same file size. <br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all" class=""><div class=""><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">Kunal Bali<br class=""></div><div class="">Research Scholar <br class=""></div><div class="">Radio &amp; Atmospheric Science Division <br class=""></div><div class="">CSIR - National Physical Laboratory<br class=""></div><div class="">New Delhi - 110012<br class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px;" class=""><font color="#1F497D" class=""><br class=""></font></div></div></div></div></div>
<br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 3:58 PM, Karin Meier-Fleischer <span dir="ltr" class="">&lt;<a href="mailto:meier-fleischer@dkrz.de" target="_blank" class="">meier-fleischer@dkrz.de</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
  
    
  
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    Did you see the size of your file it is only 281 bytes. I guess the
    file is corrupted.<br class="">
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    Bye,<br class="">
    Karin<br class="">
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    <div class="">Am 16.10.15 um 11:50 schrieb Kunal
      Bali:<br class="">
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      <div dir="ltr" class="">of course the file is in the directory&nbsp; <br class="">
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              <div class="">Kunal Bali<br class="">
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              <div class="">Research Scholar <br class="">
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              <div class="">Radio &amp; Atmospheric Science Division <br class="">
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              <div class="">CSIR - National Physical Laboratory<br class="">
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              <div class="">New Delhi - 110012<br class="">
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        <div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 3:10 PM, Karin
          Meier-Fleischer <span dir="ltr" class="">&lt;<a href="mailto:meier-fleischer@dkrz.de" target="_blank" class="">meier-fleischer@dkrz.de</a>&gt;</span>
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            <div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" class=""> Hi Kunal,<br class="">
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              does the file really exist? <br class="">
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              What does the following command return?<br class="">
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              <font color="#3333ff" class=""><tt class="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ls -la
                  /home/kunal/Pictures/NCL_Scripts/plot/fire1.hdf</tt></font><br class="">
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              Bye,<br class="">
              Karin<br class="">
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              <div class="">Am 16.10.15 um 09:01 schrieb Kunal Bali:<br class="">
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                          <div class="">Dear NCL users<br class="">
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                          I am not able to open the attached file in NCL<br class="">
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                          I am giving the simple command <br class="">
                          a =
                          addfile("/home/kunal/Pictures/NCL_Scripts/plot/fire1.hdf",
                          "r")<br class="">
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                          but showing error:<br class="">
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                        fatal:The specified HDF file
                        (/home/kunal/Pictures/NCL_Scripts/plot/fire1.hdf)
                        does not exist or can't be opened<br class="">
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                        fatal:Could not open
                        (/home/kunal/Pictures/NCL_Scripts/plot/fire1.hdf)<br class="">
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                      <b class="">The given file is 5-Min L2 Swath 1km</b>
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                        <div class="">please give me some suggestion how to
                          upload this file<br class="">
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                        <div class="">Thank You<br class="">
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                                    <div class="">Kunal Bali<br class="">
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