20010620: GEMPAK-Day of week not working?

Art,

The "?" addition is in 5.6.D which I'm working on right now
(actually I've been out of the office for the past 2 weeks).

The web based cgi I have here will be pulling out the 5.6.D documentation
which might be the source of confusion.

Is the "?" documentation for TITLE in your "phelp", or are you
refering to the web pages? I have verified that it does work
in the production version of 5.6.D I am working on.

Steve Chiswell
Unidata User Support




>From: "Arthur A. Person" <address@hidden>
>Organization: UCAR/Unidata
>Keywords: 200106201246.f5KCkm118729

>Hi...
>
>I have a user who is trying to use the "?" option for the TITLE parameter
>of gdcntr to plot the day-of-week on contour plots, but it plots the
>question-mark instead of the day.  See below referenced note.  We're
>running gempak 5.6.c.1.  Any clues?
>
>                                   Thanks.
>
>                                     Art.
>
>
>On Tue, 19 Jun 2001 address@hidden wrote:
>
>>
>>      Art,
>>
>>      Here's the listing of gdcntr variables that im running. Its
>> followed by the on-line documentation of the TITLE variable. Essentially
>> when I include ? in the title string, it does not get interpreted as a
>> special character.
>>
>>                                                        Fred
>>
>>
>>  GDATTIM  = f024
>>  GLEVEL   = 700
>>  GVCORD   = PRES
>>  GFUNC    = OMEG
>>  GDFILE   = /data/ldm/gempak/hds/2001061912_eta211.gem
>>  CINT     = 2
>>  LINE     = 1/-12/1/3
>>  MAP      = 18
>>  TITLE    = 1/-2/? ~
>>  DEVICE   = xw|ETA|.9;.9
>>  SATFIL   =
>>  RADFIL   =
>>  PROJ     = STR/90;-100;0
>>  GAREA    = 18.91;-122.59;45.99;-50.99
>>  CLEAR    = n
>>  PANEL    = 4/1/1/1
>>  TEXT     = 0.8/2/1/hw
>>  SCALE    = 999
>>  LATLON   = 0
>>  HILO     = 0
>>  HLSYM    = 0
>>  CLRBAR   = 1
>>  CONTUR   = 3/3
>>  SKIP     = 0
>>  FINT     = 1;10;25;50;75;100;150;200;300
>>  FLINE    = 0;28-22;19;16
>>  CTYPE    = C
>>  LUTFIL   =
>>  STNPLT   =
>>
>>
>> TITLE is the title color, title line, and title string separated by
>>      slashes:
>>
>>         title color / title line location / title string | short title
>>
>>      If the title color is 0, a title is not plotted.
>>
>>      The title line specifies the line on which the title will be written.
>>      The value of the title line has the following meanings:
>>
>>          0      bottom line
>>         -n      n lines from bottom
>>         +n      n lines from top
>>
>>      If the line is not specified, the default is program dependent.
>>
>>      The title string is the title to be written.  If no title string is
>>      specified, a default title will be determined by the program.
>>
>>      In the grid display programs, special characters will be replaced
>>      as follows:
>>
>>            ^            Forecast date/time
>>            ~            Valid date/time
>>            @            Vertical level
>>            _            Grid function
>>            $            Nonzero scaling factor
>>            #            Grid point location
>>            ?            Day of the week flag
>>
>>      If the information for which a character stands is not applicable to
>>      the program, nothing is output in its place.  Zero values of the
>>      scaling factor are not displayed.
>>
>>      If the "?" is included the abbreviated day of the week is added to
>> the
>>      beginning of the date/time string.  The day of the week flag must
>> always
>>      be used in combination with either special character for specifying
>> the
>>      date/time string.  The result is the day of the week for the valid
>>      date/time.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>Arthur A. Person
>Research Assistant, System Administrator
>Penn State Department of Meteorology
>email:  address@hidden, phone:  814-863-1563
>