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Bryan, Just to confirm, are you able to pull up and display the upper air data from Garp? You can use the Garp "Options" pulldown to set logging to Verbose 3 before trying to display the surface product. THios might tell us where things are getting confused. Steve Chiswell Unidata User Support >From: "Bryan G. White" <address@hidden> >Organization: UCAR/Unidata >Keywords: 200101032345.f03NjZo15780 >I'm having problems with garp and surface data. > >Whenever I try to display a surface product (metar, lighting, mos, etc.), I ca > n >select what product I want, garp then shows the correct date/times that are av > ailable. >I choose a time and garp dies with this error on a terminal... > >ilio: [1010] off end of record >lately: reading sequential formatted internal IO >part of last string: 1.0| > > >Everything works just fine under nmap. > >Problem started when I converted my pqact.conf file to conform to your example > s >in decoders.tbl and updated to gempak 5.6. I don't know if problem started >after changed pqact.conf or updating to gempak 5.6, but I think it was the >decoders.tbl. > >Any ideas? > >Thanks, > >Bryan > >