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19990528: Where are decoder man pages?

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  • Subject: 19990528: Where are decoder man pages?
  • Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 09:44:26 -0600
>From: "Neil R. Smith" <address@hidden>
>Organization: Dept. Meteorology, TAMU
>Keywords: 199905282031.OAA17449

>Thanks to Steve, I've installed nawips-5.4.  But nawips-5.4/man
>only has a few entries and only one dir., man1.  I must have
>done somethine wrong somewhere.
>
>My main interest is in the man pages for the dc_ and gd_ decoders.
>I see that I can get help on any one of them by running the 
>command with -h option.  But I'd think there would be man pages
>on them.  At least I should see gempak command manpages, but
>here is all I've got in nawips-5.4/man/man1:
>areaInfo.1*
>dcnldn.1
>gribtogem.1
>nldntogem.1
>sytogem.1
>  
>Does this sound right?  I'll forward you the install.out file
>if you want.
>
>Thanks,
>-Neil
>-- 
>Neil R. Smith, Sys. Admin.              address@hidden
>Dept. Meteorology, Texas A&M Univ.      409/845-6272 FAX:409/862-4466
>


Neil, 

You can get info on the "dc" decoders at:
http://www/packages/gempak/tutorial/decoders.html

The man page entries are just historical from past distributions.

I have LDM pqact.conf examples posted for the various decoders shown at:
http://www/packages/gempak/tutorial/pqact/decoders.tbl

Steve Chiswell