On Sunday 08 September 2013 21:45:24 Joe Tedesco wrote: > Please advise as to whether this is an oversight that can be corrected. > At the url > www.globalbedo.org/global.php > the help screen advises the following for downloading data for a Windows > system > > *For Windows user > > Download the wget setup program from here. > After installation, go to Get Data to download the shell script using > extension .bat and type "cmd" at Windows start. At the command Prompt, type > "globalbedo_wgetXXXXXXXXXX.bat" to run. > > * > However, there is no .bat file to be found; just a unix-style .sh file > > I nonetheless installed Wget and can run it on my Windows XP system. I have > even downloaded the script file "globalbedo_wget1378685267.sh" and modified > it by changing the extension to .bat. > This "globalbedo_wget1378685267.bat" file runs ok but I have no idea if the > option arguments for wget in this (originally) .sh file are any good for > Windows.
The script just holds calls to wget. So changing .sh to .bat was ok. > The data output files it delivers, when I unzip them, are all binary files > of type "GlobAlbedo.199805.mosaic.5.nc". > > What can I do with these on a Windows system? Would a .bat file deliver the > data in another format? A .bat file would not deliver any different format. There should be some program to read these .nc files (I am guessing netCDF: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetCDF). Ask at GlobalAlbedo.org, what is all about. Tim
