[ferret_users] Retrive online data from ftp servers and zipped datasets;

[Karnan C <karnanc6@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear ferret users,

I would like to download the OSCAR data sets directly from the web
servers through ferret. If I do that, I can set my area of interest
and store a small size data in my computer, rather than downloading
~500mb data set.

I can't succeed do obtain the data.

1). It was FTP server and when I tried, I got error.
Data: oscar_vel1992_180.nc
Server: ftp://podaac-ftp.jpl.nasa.gov/allData/oscar/preview/L4/resource/LAS/oscar_third_deg_180/

use "ftp://podaac-ftp.jpl.nasa.gov/allData/oscar/preview/L4/resource/LAS/oscar_third_deg_180/oscar_vel1992_180.nc";

**netCDF error
             No such file or directory (OPeNDAP/netCDF Error code 2)
             Data set:
ftp://podaac-ftp.jpl.nasa.gov/allData/oscar/preview/L4/resource/LAS/oscar_third_deg_180/oscar_vel1992_180.nc

2). Some of the online data sets were zipped in the FTP server.
Data: oscar_vel1992.nc.gz
Server: ftp://podaac-ftp.jpl.nasa.gov/allData/oscar/preview/L4/oscar_third_deg/

Please share some ideas to do it successfully.
Thank you.
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