RE: 20000109: nmap and archived data?

Mace,

I see you downloaded the X86 version, so I took a look at that and see
what you are describing. It looks like a string length problem,
but I haven't seen it on other platforms so I'll have to investigate.

Steve

On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Bentley, Mace wrote:

> Steve,
> 
> I just finished downloading and installing gempak5.6a and have one final
> question regarding the time widget on nmap/nmap2. When I select the data
> type, and then go to the time widget to set the date to Oct 18, 1996,
> the calendar only displays the first week and the last day of the month
> for all 12 months in the widget. No days in between these are displayed.
> 
> Thanks again for your help,
> 
> Mace
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Chiswell [mailto:address@hidden]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 4:48 PM
> To: Bentley, Mace
> Subject: RE: 20000109: nmap and archived data?
> 
> 
> Yes. I said 5 days since that is the period of data I have on line.
> The time selection widget lets you set the year, month, day and hour.
> 
> Steve Chiswell
> 
> On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Bentley, Mace wrote:
> 
> > Steve,
> > 
> > Thanks for your help! I haven't checked this yet, but reading your
> > e-mail - can I go back further than 5 days? I'd like to use nmap to
> view
> > data from some of the comet cases online (several years ago)?
> > 
> > Mace
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Steve Chiswell [mailto:address@hidden]
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 4:27 PM
> > To: Bentley, Mace
> > Cc: address@hidden
> > Subject: 20000109: nmap and archived data?
> > 
> > 
> > Mace,
> > 
> > If you have nmap set up to look in a different directory (through 
> > the templates file datatype.tbl), then all you should have to do is
> > set the time using the radio button at the bottom of the time widget
> > to the day of the data you want, then slide the time range bar to
> > the period to cover.
> > 
> > The online help "whats new" for nmap2 says this feature is still
> > not functional for that program...but I verified I could
> > go back 5 days for nmap.
> > 
> > Steve Chiswell
> > 
> > 
> > On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Bentley, Mace wrote:
> > 
> > > Steve,
> > > 
> > > I was curious to know if there was any way to get nmap to display
> > > archived data? I read through the support archives and saw you could
> > get
> > > nmap to recognize a non-default directory structure. I tried
> changing
> > > the configuration files but I suspect the problem is that nmap is
> > still
> > > looking for a current date on the data files?
> > > 
> > > Are there any other options? 
> > > 
> > > Thanks!
> > > 
> > > Mace
> > > 
> > > Mace L. Bentley, Ph.D.
> > > Assistant Professor
> > > Department of Geography
> > > Northern Illinois University
> > > DeKalb, IL 60115
> > > 815-753-6850
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
>