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Diana, The getraob program is provided by FSL/NCDC as an executable (ie, I don't have the source code). I'll see about running it with a list of stations to see if I run into the same problems, or if I come up with any suggestions. Steve Chiswell Unidata User SUpport >From: address@hidden >Organization: UCAR/Unidata >Keywords: 200104030107.f3317GL26719 >Cc:address@hidden > >Hi Steve, > I think the problem might be with the getraob program. I successfully >entered the remaining 55 stations and learned, after running your cat program, >that it obtained about 30 of them. That's better than last time, but >I wonder why it's not getting all of them. It looks like I still have room >left on my disk, but I'll look into possible memory problems. > >I actually entered the stations by hand, just in case it wasn't able to >read my station file last time. Here's what I did: > >WMO station number? 72340 >WMO station number? 72274 > WMO station number? 72493 > WMO station number? 72391 > WMO station number? 72290 > WMO station number? 72291 > WMO station number? 72393 > WMO station number? 72469 > WMO station number? 72476 > WMO station number? 72210 > WMO station number? 72311 > WMO station number? 72681 > WMO station number? 72532 > WMO station number? 91165 > WMO station number? 72451 > WMO station number? 72456 > WMO station number? 72506 > WMO station number? 74494 > WMO station number? 72712 > WMO station number? 72606 > WMO station number? 72734 > WMO station number? 72747 > WMO station number? 72655 > WMO station number? 72445 > WMO station number? 72349 > WMO station number? 72440 > WMO station number? 72768 > WMO station number? 72775 > WMO station number? 72304 > WMO station number? 72317 > WMO station number? 72764 > WMO station number? 72553 > WMO station number? 72562 > WMO station number? 72365 > WMO station number? 72486 > WMO station number? 72583 > WMO station number? 72518 > WMO station number? 72528 > WMO station number? 72429 > WMO station number? 72353 > WMO station number? 72597 > WMO station number? 72694 > WMO station number? 72520 > WMO station number? 72654 > WMO station number? 72662 > WMO station number? 72327 > WMO station number? 72363 > WMO station number? 72572 > WMO station number? 72403 > WMO station number? 72402 > WMO station number? 72797 > WMO station number? 72785 > WMO station number? 72645 > WMO station number? 72425 > WMO station number? 72576 > > >Number of soundings written: 573165 > > >Steve, here's the summary of station ID's fr. the output of the cat >program you sent. > >72493 >72764 >72576 >72562 >72662 >72768 >72572 >72583 > 72681 >72775 >72785 >72597 >72694 >72290 >72425 >72528 >72391 >72290 >72291 >72393 >72304 >72403 >72402 >72425 > 72469 >72768 >72520 > 72654 >72553 > > >At least I have a total of 40 stations to work with. This is not a tragedy, b > ut >it seems there's no guarantee that these will be the same stations extracted >from the other 4 CDROM's, so I guess we should look into solving this dilemma. > >Thanks, >Diana >