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On Tue, 16 Mar 1999, Unidata Support wrote: > >To: "'address@hidden'" <address@hidden> > >From: "Molenar, Deb" <address@hidden> > >Subject: ldm data to d2d decoders > >Organization: . > >Keywords: 199903161855.LAA17564 > > I'm trying to bring in the ldm NOAAPORT data and pipe it through the AWIPS > D2D decoders. addccb.pl is a program that replaces the WMO header with a > D2D header. The following is the command COMET gave me to use in > pqact.conf, but whenever I start up ldm, I get a 'child process exited with > status 1' error but no other indications as to what the format problems are. > Any ideas? Deb, Try running the decoder from the command line as user LDM. Redirect the input from standard in, this is how I solve most decoder problems, ie. % addccb.pl fxa/ldm/test.220000 < <inputdata> Robb.... ps I was out of the office last week. > > WMO ^(.*) (....) ([0-3][0-9][0-2][0-9][0-5][0-9]) > PIPE -close addccb.pl fxa/ldm/\1\2.\3 > > Thanks in advance. > > ___________________________ > Debra A. Molenar address@hidden > Computer Specialist NOAA/NESDIS/RAMM E-RA2 > phone: 970-491-8447 fax: 970-491-8241 > =============================================================================== Robb Kambic Unidata Program Center Software Engineer III Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research address@hidden WWW: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ ===============================================================================