19990617: Gempak access information

The information you need to download the Unidata Gempak distribution is:

host: ftp.unidata.ucar.edu
login: gbuddy
passwd: XXXXXX

The source distribution is found under
~gbuddy/nawips-5.4/gempak54upc_pl11.tar.gz

The current tar file is patched through patch level 11.

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. Please let me know if you need help in installation.

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_pl11_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. You should consider subscribing to the gembud email
list to be informed about releases, bug fixes etc.

Please do not hesitate to contact us at address@hidden
if you have questions. You may also pose questions to the relevant
email lists (such as gembud) if you are a member of that list.

Steve Chiswell
Unidata User Support