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20000703: areaInfo vs. new pnga2area date format and Garp

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  • Subject: 20000703: areaInfo vs. new pnga2area date format and Garp
  • Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2000 10:07:47 -0600
Chris,

I have an updated areainfo.tar.Z in ~gbuddy/nawips-5.4/patches
that uses yyyy naming.

You can download this to $NAWIPS and unpack with:
zcat areainfo.tar.Z | tar xvf -

Then build and install with:

cd $NAWIPS/unidata/programs/areainfo
make all
make install
make clean


This will allow you to migrate all of your names to yyyy and
modify the Garp_defaults template accordingly.

These are al changes I've made to the next release.

Steve Chiswell
Unidata User Support

>From: "C. Vandersip" <address@hidden>
>Organization: UCAR/Unidata
>Keywords: 200007032101.e63L1mT04225

>Hi Steve,
>
>I just reconfigured pqact.conf to decode the new CIMSS products using
>the pnga2area decoder and it's working fine.  Now here's my problem:
>
>When I opened the Garp_defaults file to see if modifications were
>necessary, I realized that the satT file name template string is
>configured for 2-digit year --
>
>  satT :  $(SATDIR)/%(platform)/%(resolution)/%(product)/*_@(YYMMDD)_@(HHNN)
>
>which is what the areaInfo program produces in the "nids_links" script.
>The new pnga2area decoder, however, produce 4-digit year file names, at
>least as it's configured in my pqact.conf (see below).  I'd like to
>convert the nids_links filenames to 4-digit year if it's simple enough
>(but couldn't find source code to areaInfo).  If that's not possible, I'd
>like to produce 2-digit-year filenames for the CIMSS products.  Our
>pqact.conf setup for these new files looks like this:
>
>MCIDAS  ^pnga2area Q. CD .... (.*) (.*) (.*) (........) (....)
>        PIPE    -close
>        pnga2area -xl /usr/local/ldm/logs/CIMSS_LI.log
>        -a /usr/local/ldm-mcidas/etc/SATANNOT
>        -b /usr/local/ldm-mcidas/etc/SATBAND
>        data/garpdata/images/sat/SOUNDER/\3/LI/LI_\4_\5
>
>Can I make an easy change to the regex-formatted filename here to do this?
>I wanted to pass this by you before trying.
>
>Regards,
>
>Chris
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