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Gempak Users, COMET has provided a Garp 2.1 release which addresses some remaining Y2K issues with that program. I have also updated gdthgt for grid files that span the year end period. The patch has been placed in the ~gbuddy/nawips-5.4/patches directory as gempak5.4_patch14.tar.gz Before installing this patch, you may want to move your current $NAWIPS/garp tree to $NAWIPS/garp2.02 so that you can refer to settings in your $GARPHOME/config/Garp_defaults file for your data directory locations and dataset names (model keys, names etc). **Note that this patch assumes that you have the current distribution from ~gbuddy/nawips-5.4/gempak54upc_pl12.tar.gz The instructions for installing this patch are as follows: 0) in $NAWIPS, move your current garp tree mv garp garp2.02 1) download the compressed tar file to your local $NAWIPS directory 2) unpack the tar file with the command: gunzip -c gempak5.4_patch14.tar.gz | tar xvf - 3) Rebuild updated gemlib routines cd $GEMPAKHOME/source/gemlib/tg make clean make all make clean cd $GEMPAKHOME/source/gemlib/ti make clean make all make clean 4) Build an updated version of gdthgt (also used by Garp!!!) cd $GEMPAKHOME/source/programs/gd/gdthgt make clean make all make install make clean 5) Build and install Garp 2.1 cd $GARPHOME make all make install make clean It is very important that you follow the above steps in order since the update of garp relies on the gdthgt library and the updated gemlib routines! I will be updating the complete distribution tarfile tomorrow. I will also update the Linux and Solarix x86 binary distribution tarfiles tomorrow (12/31/1999). Without this patch, Garp2.02 will display incorrect forecast time labels on the generated maps and gdthgt will not display labels for time periods which run over the year end. Garp 2.1 will display time selction widgets using 4 digit years in the selection boxes. Steve Chiswell Unidata User Support