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20010109: GEMPAK and NIDS

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  • Subject: 20010109: GEMPAK and NIDS
  • Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 16:14:07 -0700
>From: "Thomas L. Mote" <address@hidden>
>Organization: UCAR/Unidata
>Keywords: 200101092215.f09MFJo10530

>
>Steve:
>
>OK. I understand we are now seeing only unencrypted 
>NIDS data from all stations (according to the ldm-users 
>group). I have the 5.6a version of the gempak that 
>supports the NOAAport NIDS feed. When examining the last 
>couple of data files from this afternoon, I still keep 
>getting a message saying "unsupported file format".
>
>I'm sorry about my impatience on this matter. I know the 
>data just became available today. (I also cannot call up 
>the imagery in McIDAS, so I'll have a message for Tom as 
>well.) As an explanation for my impatience, I am preparing 
>a LINUX system that will be used to "ghost" 15 other 
>machines. Our computer person wants to "ghost" these 
>machines tomorrow, since our semester has already started 
>and the lab is closed. Point is, anything that I have to 
>fix once now saves me fixing it 16 times later ;-)
>
>
>**********************************************************
>Thomas L. Mote                               address@hidden
>Associate Professor of Geography         ph:  706-542-2906
>University of Georgia                    lab: 706-542-6060
>Athens, GA 30602-2502 USA                fax: 706-542-2388
>


Tom,

I sent out an announcement to the gembud list a few hours ago, 
but I see you aren't on that list. This should fix your problem.
The Linux binary tarfile will be updated as soon as the gzip finishes
copying over the file.

Steve Chiswell


From address@hidden Tue Jan  9 14:45:48 2001
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To: address@hidden
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Subject: 20010109: Update to GEMPAK 5.6A
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Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 14:45:47 -0700
From: Unidata Support <address@hidden>


GEMPAK users,
I have an update for displaying the compressed (zlib)
NIDS images.

I have found that some compilers are more picky about a type
comparison I used in a test for whether a product met
all the criteria for a zlib block.

In $GEMPAK/source/gemlib/im/imnexz.c, line 60:
        char   *boff;
should be 
        unsigned char   *boff;

If you built on your system, you can just make that change, then
update your executables with:

cd $GEMPAK/source/gemlib/im
make clean
make all
make clean

cd $NAWIPS
make clean
make all
make install
make clean

If you downloaded the binary distribution, you can re-download the tarfile
and just extract the bin/(sol, x86, linux) directory with:
gunzip -c gempak_upc5.6.a_xxx.tar.gz | tar xvf - bin

Steve Chiswell