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Clint, I copied my nmap2 from 5.6b into ~gbuddy/nawips-5.6/binary/solaris_sparc/nmap2_5.6b. Let me know if this works...I think it should run with your 5.6a setup. Chiz >From: Clint Rowe <address@hidden> >Organization: UCAR/Unidata >Keywords: 200102202207.f1KM7WL11816 >Chiz, > >It sounds exactly like John's problem -- even when I set the time using the >"Set Time" button, I don't get any data plotted, even though the date/time >slide in the window looks correct. > >Clint > >> >>Clint, >> >>Are you using the "Set Time" button in the data selection widget in NMAP2? >> >>If you are, and aren't getting the times displayed in the selection widget, >>this might be what John Horel is describing below. If so, I can compile >>NMAP2 for you using John's suggestion below for you to try. >>I haven't tested it our here yet. >> >>Chiz >> >> >>Steve Chiswell >>Unidata User Support >> >> >>-------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>From: "John D. Horel" <address@hidden> >>Message-Id: <address@hidden> >>To: address@hidden >>Subject: minor fix to nmap2 time library routine >>Cc: address@hidden >>X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII >> >>This bug is so esoteric that I won't bother sending it out to the gembud list > . >I was unable to plot surface data in nmap2 from last February using the pop up > >"set time" widget. After putting in a bunch of write statements, I traced the >symptom to $GEMPAKHOME/source/nmaplib/nsf/nsfdspl.f where it was calling >>nsf_tlst and using endtim. Since my time window was far from the endtim, it w > as >not plotting any data. I switched endtim to dattim and things appear to be >working both on current data and retrospective data. >> >>Here's the line in nsfdspl.f that was modified. >> >> >>c jdh 01/01 replaced endtim with dattim in call as it made it impossible >>c to plot data from previous year >> CALL NSF_TLST ( alias, cycle, isbcat, dattim, mrange, >> + timstr, lenstr, numt, iret ) >> >>I'm not sure if this solves the problem entirely, but at least I'm looking at > >both current and old surface data now. >> >>Regards, >> >>John >> >>----------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> >> >> >>>From: Clint Rowe <address@hidden> >>>Organization: UCAR/Unidata >>>Keywords: 200102202108.f1KL8sL09860 >> >>>--Leap_of_Leopards_202_000 >>>Content-Type: TEXT/plain; charset=us-ascii >>>Content-MD5: nxtRxowX+rgbp6KtnX5QcQ== >>> >>>Chiz, >>> >>>I got some gempak data for a comet case study (#14) to use in class and was >>>planning to use namp and nmap2. Mark also decided to make use of this case >>>(and probably others) and started playing with things before I was ready, so >>>now I'm forced to figure out what to do. The Comet data are in /wx/COMET_01 > 4, >>>so I wrote a little script (attached) to change $GEMDATA to point to that >>>directory. All is well for Nmap (and Garp and Nsharp, BTW), but Nmap2 refus > es >>>to load any surface or upperair data from the case study. It loads model da > ta >>>without a problem, but not surface or upperair. Do you have any idea why th > is >>>might be happening? I was under the impression that Nmap and Nmap2 used the >>>same environment variables and resource files -- is there something I'm miss > in >>> g. >>> >>>Also, I had to change the filenames for surface and upperair files from >>>YYMMDD to YYYYMMDD format for Nmap (and, I thought, Nmap2) to work correctly > - >>> - >>>I guess that's a reverse-Y2K problem! 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