20001218: for a license number

>From: "Tang, Youhua" <address@hidden>
>Organization: UCAR/Unidata
>Keywords: 200012182210.eBIMAMo16976

>Dear Sir/Madam:
>
>I have interest on your GEMPAK software. Could give me the password for the
>ftp site?  By
>the way, please tell me how I can  install it?
>
>Thanks a lot
>
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>Unidata Product Licensing Form: 911205
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>Institution:  University of Iowa
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>Department:  Center for Global & Regional Environmental Research
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>Mailing address: University of Iowa
>                              CGRER, 252 IATL
>                              Iowa City, IA 52242
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>Contact name:  Youhua Tang
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>Phone number(s):  (319)335-0264
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>Email address: address@hidden
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>Contract officer: Gregory Carmichael
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>Phone number(s):  (319)335-1399
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>Product & Rev #: GEMPAK 5.6
>
>Machine and operating system:  HP-UNIX
>
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>Youhua Tang
>CGRER, 252 IATL
>University of Iowa
>Iowa City, IA 52242
>USA
>
>Phone: (319)335-0264   Fax: (319)335-3337
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Yoshua,
Here is the information for downloading and installing GEMPAK. 

The current GEMPAK distribution is GEMPAK 5.6.a

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The information you need to download gempak is:
host: ftp.unidata.ucar.edu
login: gbuddy
passwordd: XXXXXX

Please record the above information for your records.

Here are the general source download and building instructions. If
you are running Solaris x86 or Linux, you can download binary distributions
for these platforms. In particular, GEMPAK requires Motif which is not
part of Linux (must be purchased separately), so you would likely
need to download the binary distribution. Let me know if you need 
instructions for that route.

The source distribution for building is found under
~gbuddy/nawips-5.6/gempak_upc5.6.a.tar.gz

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,
Solaris for Intel (X86) IRIX, OSF/1, AIX, Linux, HPUX- you should be able 
to just type "make all", followed by "make install" when the compilation 
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 (Especially Digital UNIX).

Documentation for GEMPAK can be found as PDF files under
the $NAWIPS/doc/User_Guide directory, as well as online at:
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/gempak/tutorial/
I have provided release notes for GEMPAK 5.6 at:
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/gempak/GEMPAK5.6/

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.

Plese refer all questions about the distribution and any problems
you may have to address@hidden. You may also wish to
subscribe yourself to the gembud email list at:
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/mailinglist/mailing-list-form.html

Announcements about the GEMPAK distribution, including new distributions,
patches, and feature enhancements are made through that list. Also,
if you have information or need to find other users who may have
experience with a specific data set, then you are encouraged to
use the email list which is composed of fellow GEMPAK users in our community.

Once you have GEMPAK installed, you can use the "dc" realtime data decoders
with the LDM package to decode the data into GEMPAK format as it arrives
at your site. Refer to the LDM web pages for the installation of LDM and
getting connected to the IDD. Examples of LDM pqact.cont pattern/action entries 
for 
the various types of data for the GEMPAK decoders are found in the tutorial
as well as in the Examples section of the GEMPAK www pages.


Steve Chiswell
Unidata User Support