20010313: more on NWX problem

Robert,

NWX is very picky about the surface file names since it uses the names
to determine what the time of data within is.

In the nwx source code, it is expecting the surface files to be named
YYYYMMDD followed by the file extension givin in $NWX_TABLES/master.tbl

The default I provide is for files named YYYYMMDD_sao.gem
(only the _ or . characters are acepted in the extension).

So, if you have files named YYYYMMDDHH.... in the directory, that would be
a problem. And, any other naming convention would be a problem as well.

If you continue to have problems, look at your SFC_HRLY entry in
master.tbl and check the file extension and data_dir. Send
me a listing of the data dir contents if necessary along with
your SFC_HRLY line.

Steve Chiswell
Unidata User Support




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>I forgot to add on my NWX surface ob problem I reported
>yesterday, that the map comes up with all of the stations
>plotted on the map, but when I click on any of them I get nothing
>and the terminal window shows it can't open my .gem files
>even though I can do an sflist on these files and get raw obs fine.
>
>This on our Sparc machines again (5.6a).
>
>Thanks,
>Robert Mullenax
>
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>Thanks..and one more unrelated question (NWX).  This
>weekend at NSBF I was trying to get NWX to work and everything
>but the surface obs works.  When I run nwx from the command
>line to look at the output it says it can't open any of the the files
>in the $GEMDATA/surface dir (the exact error is [SL -2]).  I am
>decoding the raw files and I am saving data as YYYYMMDD and YYYYMMDDHH.
>It does see the files in the correct place, it just says it
>can't open amy of them (lists each one individually).
>What else do I need to do to configure it?
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>Thanks,
>Robert
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