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Ric The information you need to download gempak is: host: ftp.unidata.ucar.edu login: gbuddy passwd: XXXXXX The source distribution is found under ~gbuddy/nawips-5.4/gempak54upc_pl8.tar.gz The current tar file is patched through patch level 8. By tomorrow I will be posting pl10 which will include a decoder for the ACARS data (will be announced as a IDD feed Monday) as well as NSHARP- an interactive skew-t gui suitable for model, radiosonde and ACARS plots. I still need to get our HPUX-11 system happy with the tar file. To build Gempak from source, download and unpack the distribution into a clean directory. Edit the csh file Gemenviron in the top directory and define the NAWIPS environmental variable to be the directory you unpacked into. Source the Gemenviron variables into your csh environment to define $NAWIPS and all the tree locations relative to NAWIPS. Then, if your system is standard configuration for Solaris, IRIX, OSF/1, AIX, Linux, HPUX- you should be able to just type "make all", followed by "make install" when the compileation finishes. If you have libraries in non-standard places, then the $NAWIPS/config/Makeinc.xxxxx file for your OS would have to be modified. You should not modify the optimization levels since some compilers don't work well with aggressive optimization. If you need a binary distribution for Linux (linux requires 3rd party Motif), you can obtain that from ~gbuddy/nawips-5.4/binary/linux/gempak5.4_pl10_linux.tar.gz All users that use Gempak should source Gemenviron into their csh environment to define the Gempak variables and add the executable directory into their path. Once the distribution is installed, you can edit the data directory locations defined in Gemenviron- but thats not a priority for building. If you need more information, let me know what platform you will be using, etc. Steve Chiswell Unidata User SUpport On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Unidata Support wrote: > > ------- Forwarded Message > > >To: address@hidden > >From: "Alaric S. Haag" <address@hidden> > >Subject: GEMPAK download > >Organization: . > >Keywords: 199906081723.LAA29662 > > Hello, > > I've just received return letter of verifiation that the license is in > place to allow the Southern Regional Climate Center to obtain the > GEMPAK and McIDAS software. At this time, I'd like to work on GEMPAK > only. If you can provide me with login information for downloading the > software, I'd be most grateful! > > Thanks! > > -- > Kind regards, > Ric > > [ Alaric S. Haag, Computer Manager mailto:address@hidden ] > [ Southern Regional Climate Center Voice: (225) 388-6438 ] > [ Louisiana State University FAX: (225) 388-2912 ] > [ Baton Rouge, LA 70803 http://www.srcc.lsu.edu ] > > > ------- End of Forwarded Message > >