How to use Xconv\Convsh on Windows platform

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Download the executable for Windows from the BADC Xconv/Convsh software page (note that Cygwin is not required)
There are 2 ways of using the downloaded executable:
- Method 1: double-click on xconv and this will launch the interface
- Method 2: Using a command line on DOS as follows:
  - open a DOS window,
  - go to the xconv folder,
  - type the command line: xconv1.91.exe -i xxx -o yyy.nc
  - This launches the interface too, opens automatically the file xxx, sets the output file name to yyy.nc and the output format to netCDF.
    Unfortunately, the conversion is not automatic. [Source: http://www.met.rdg.ac.uk/~jeff/xconv/arg.html]

Download the executable for Windows from the BADC Xconv/Convsh software page (note that Cygwin is not required)
There are 2 ways of using the downloaded executable:
- Method 1: as a subshell (or "sub-DOS" environment)
  - double-click on Convsh or open a DOS window, go to the Convsh folder and launch Convsh by typing convsh.exe
  - This launches a DOS-like window where convsh commands can be typed. Use the commands at http://www.met.rdg.ac.uk/~jeff/xconv/appx1.html to open a file, read it, write data to another file, etc.
    The scripts of http://www.met.rdg.ac.uk/~jeff/xconv/appx2.html illustrate other commands (in TCL) that will also work in the convsh subshell.
- Method 2: with a Windows batch file
  - Create a file (with the extension .tcl) containing a series of commands to execute (see commands of method 1 above)
  - Feed this file to convsh using a Windows batch file (.bat). The typical syntax for the batch file is: convsh.exe < myscript.tcl arguments. (The arguments are for myscript.tcl.)
    The convsh/tcl script does not need the header line specifying where to find the convsh language (i.e. #!/bin/.../convsh).
    For example, to convert a series of GRIB files into a netCDF file, use: convsh.exe < conv2nc.tcl -i file1 file2 ... fileN -o file.nc (The conv2nc.tcl script comes from http://www.met.rdg.ac.uk/~jeff/xconv/appx2.html)

xconv was written, and kindly supplied, by Jeff Cole.

The information on this webpage was kindly provided by Dr Emilie Vanvyve, a user of Xconv/Convsh on Windows.

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