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20001108: GEMPAK tables

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  • Subject: 20001108: GEMPAK tables
  • Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 13:42:29 -0700
>From: "Larry D. Oolman" <address@hidden>
>Organization: UCAR/Unidata
>Keywords: 200011081614.eA8GEu429872

>In the version of gempak that I downloaded on Oct 15, many of the
>tables in $GEMTBL/stns and $GEMTBL/config do not have world read permissio.
>This prevents anyone outside the installed group from using these tables.
>
>Larry Oolman
>Department of Atmospheric Science
>University of Wyoming
>address@hidden
>http://www-das.uwyo.edu
>
>


Larry,

I added o+r to all files and repacked the distribution tarfile today.
The problem is created by the umask for someone creating the files at NCEP.

Steve Chiswell