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Matt, We don't post gempak stuff in anonymous. Everything is in the gbuddy account: login gbuddy password XXXXXX cd nawips-5.4/contrib Steve Chiswell Unidata User Support >From: "Matthew G. Fearon" <address@hidden> >Organization: Desert Research Institute >Keywords: 199912152024.NAA21315 >Steve, > >Thank you for locating that program. I tried to retrieve it >from the anonymous ftp site, ftp.unidata.ucar.edu however, >the directory ~gbuddy/nawips-5.4/contrib does not exist. >Am I going to the correct site ? > >Thanks, > >Matt Fearon >address@hidden > >Unidata Support wrote: > >> >From: "Matthew G. Fearon" <address@hidden> >> >Organization: Desert Research Institute >> >Keywords: 199912141847.LAA07816 >> >> >Steve, >> > >> >I was wondering if there is a gempak program that >> >allows the user the extract certain parameters at an >> >individual grid point. I realize this can be accomplished >> >with gdprof, but I was wondering if there is a program >> >that does this more specifically, say for instance I just >> >want hght@%none at Reno or pres@0%none. >> >I have seen this accomplished with a program called gdpoint. >> >Yet, I am not sure of how to attain a copy of this program. >> >Have you ever heard of or used a gdpoint program in gempak ? >> > >> >Let me know when you have a chance. >> > >> >Thank you, >> >Matt Fearon >> >address@hidden >> > >> > >> > >> >> Matt, >> >> GDPOINT is not a standard Gempak program, however, I did track it down >> on the SOO/SAC contrib ftp server. I cleaned up some problems it had >> with running on some of our systems here (undefined variables, bad code etc) >> and have posted it under the ~gbuddy/nawips-5.4/contrib directory here >> as gdpoint.tar.Z. >> >> To build this program, download it to your $NAWIPS directory and >> unpack with: >> zcat gdpoint.tar.Z | tar xvf - >> >> Then build and install as follows: >> cd $NAWIPS/comet/gdpoint >> make all >> make install >> make clean >> >> Steve Chiswell >> **************************************************************************** >> Unidata User Support UCAR Unidata Program >> (303)497-8644 P.O. Box 3000 >> address@hidden Boulder, CO 80307 >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Unidata WWW Service http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ >> **************************************************************************** >