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>From: Anthony Rockwood - MSCD Meteorology <address@hidden> >Organization: UCAR/Unidata >Keywords: 200101311753.f0VHrmX06479 >Chiz, > >Thanks for the help. Most of your fixes work, but I'm still stuck on a >few: > >> I have comments for your questions below. The radar rings and profiler >> plots in garp are genuine bugs due to the change in the underlying >> GEMPAK library. I have posted fixes as detailed below. Thanks for >> pointing out these problems. > >Sounds like I'll finally have to get a compiler so I can implement the >fixes as they are issued. Right now, I have to rely on binaries. Ok....I'm trying to get 5.6b released soon so I didn't recompile the binaries....but I'll get a new binary of garp posted as soon as I can. > >> >In garp, my color topo map backgrounds aren't there. How or what do I >> >configure to be able to use these again? >> >> They are there in $GARPHOME/map/areas in the distribution, and the >> $GARPHOME/config/Garp_defaults configuration file is set up with: >> colormapdir : $(GARPHOME)/map/areas >> >> If you don't have that path, then set it back to the above. > >I think this is all set up right since I can display the other color topo >maps such as GOES-8, 9, No Hem, etc, but only a map with county borders >appears for Colorado or Central Rockies. The files are in >$GARPHOME/map/areas and my Garp_defaults is configured to find them, I >just don't get the color topo like the others. This is what I get: > >GEMPAK: [IM 1] No image type entry for file >^/usr/local/gempak/GEMPAK5.6/comet/garp/map/areas/topo_CO.area need to add these 2 lines to $GEMTBL/sat/imgtyp.tbl: TOPO1 TOPO 0 255 99 1 1 GRAY GOES7 VIS 0 255 33 1 1 GRAY > >Thanks again, > >Tony > > **************************************************************************** > Anthony A. Rockwood Metropolitan State College of Denver > Meteorology Program Dept.of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences > 303.556.8399 P.O. Box 173362, Campus Box 22 > address@hidden Denver, CO 80217-3362 > fax: 303.556.4436 www.mscd.edu/~eas > **************************************************************************** > > > Steve Chiswell