19990128: WXP support

>From: address@hidden (Wayne Gibson)
>Organization: .
>Keywords: 199901282209.PAA04337

>As indicated on your unidata web page, support for WXP is rather shaky but tha
> t 
>"Unidata's support staff can provide information on other meteorological 
>packages and migration strategies".  Do you have a list of recommendations?
>
>Wayne Gibson
>Oregon State University
>

Wayne,

Unidata licenses and supports both GEMPAK and McIDAS. Online tutorials,
user documentation, and training workshops are provided for both packages.
More information on these packages is provided on our WWW page at:
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ under the "packages" link.
Both packages are supported on the full range of UPC supported platforms.
GEMPAK and McIDAS both provide GUI interfaces. The GARP interface to
GEMPAK is used by many NWS offices as well as universities.

The last Unidata supported WXP release (WXP 4.8) was approximately 5
years ago. Since then beta releases of WXP 5.0 have been made available
directly by Dan Vietor while he was at Purdue and all support for WXP has 
been through the wxp community email list. Dan Vietor provided a large amount of
the support for WXP, but since he has left Purdue for Unisys, and ownership
of the package is moving to Unisys and commercial licensing, any future beta
releases or final releases of WXP are in limbo. Future access to WXP 
will be through Unisys, and they may charge a fee for their package/service.

Steve Chiswell