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GEMPAK users, Due to changes in underlying GEMPAK 5.6.C routines that nsharp calls, I have re-posted the GEMPAK 5.6.C.1 tarfiles including binary distributions. If you have already downloaded the distributions, you do not have to re-download the complete distribution. I have posted the nsharp binary in each of the respective binary directories (make sure you "chmod a+x nsharp" the file when you FTP the file to your computer. Additionally, you can download just the updated nsharp source files from: ~gbuddy/nawips-5.6/patches/nsharp.tar.Z. To rebuild just the single program from source, unpack the tarfile from your NAWIPS directory and build as follows: cd $NAWIPS zcat nsharp.tar.Z | tar xvf - cd $NAWIPS/unidata/programs/nsharp make clean make all make install make clean Steve Chiswell Unidata User Support