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20010108: Gempak - LDMBRIDGE Decoder actions example pqact.conf

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  • Subject: 20010108: Gempak - LDMBRIDGE Decoder actions example pqact.conf
  • Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 13:19:20 -0700
>From: "Kopp, Fred" <address@hidden>
>Organization: UCAR/Unidata
>Keywords: 200101081849.f08Inxo12151

>The following is extracted from the example pqact.conf file on your web
>page. My question is: Should the 
>references be to gempak5.4 or the current 5.6 (or 5.6A when I get around to
>it)? I just noticed this 
>because our firewall disappeared and we have been hacked and etc, etc. I am
>trying to bring LDM 
>back up independent of a local network.
>Fred Kopp
>
># 
># Watch box coordinates 
># 
>DDPLUS ^WWUS40 KMKC ([0-3][0-9])([0-2][0-9])
> PIPE decoders/dcwatch -t 30 
>-d data/gempak/logs/dcwatch.log 
>-s /home/gempak/NAWIPS-5.4/gempak5.4/tables/stns/sfworld.tbl 
>-p /home/gempak/NAWIPS-5.4/gempak5.4/tables/pack/watch.pack 
>data/gempak/storm/watches/watches_YYYY_MM.gem # 
>


Fred,
Most references from 5.6 are the same as in 5.4, with a few exceptions:

1) in 5.6, the decoders can now be passed an environmental variable with
the -e flag, so that the above could be represented in 5.6 as:
DDPLUS  ^WWUS40 KMKC ([0-3][0-9])([0-2][0-9])
        PIPE    decoders/dcwatch -t 30
        data/gempak/logs/dcwatch.log
        -e GEMTBL=/home/gempak/NAWIPS-5.4/gempak5.4/tables
        -s sfworld.tbl -p watch.pack
        data/gempak/storm/watches/watches_YYYY_MM.gem

As, a result, if you follow the tutorial examples for 5.6, you will see
the -e flag is used. You will have to set the complete path in 5.4.

2) 5.6 now has dcmetr instead of dchrly

3) 5.6 has several additional decoders in the pqact.conf examples that
   you won't find in 5.4.


You can find the 5.4 old pqact.conf decoders examples from the web pages at:
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/gempak/tutorial/pqact/decoders.tbl_5.4_last

Steve Chiswell