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>From: Brendon Hoch <address@hidden> >Organization: UCAR/Unidata >Keywords: 200107101423.f6AENh118391 >Unidata Product Licensing Form: 911205 > >Institution: Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory/Columbia University > >Department: International Reasearch Institute for climate prediction >(IRI) > >Mailing address: 61 Route 9W > > >Contact name: Brendon Hoch > >Phone number(s): 845-680-4444 > >Email address: address@hidden > >Contract officer: (same) > > >Phone number(s): > >Product & Rev #: GEMPAK 5.6 > >Machine and operating system: Red Hat Linux 7.1 > >Thanks, >Brendon Hoch >-- >_______________________________________________________ >Brendon Hoch >International Research Institute for climate prediction >Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University >141/208 Monell, 61 Route 9W, Palisades, NY 10964 >------------------------------------------------------- >Phone: (845)680-4444 Fax:(845)680-4488 >mailto:address@hidden >http://iri.columbia.edu/~bhoch >------------------------------------------------------- > Brendon, I will send you the FTP download instructions for GEMPAK. We will be moving to an online Web based download system in the near future. The current version of GEMPAK is 5.6.C.1. This will be replaced by GEMPAK 5.6.D.1 shortly. You can obtain either source or binary installations of GEMPAK. I have binary distributions for Linux and Solaris platforms. We support IRIX, HP-UX, OSF/1 (Digital Unix), AIX, Solaris, Solaris X86 and Linux source build installations as well. Download and installation instructions for our release of software, as well as tutorial information via the web pages: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/gempak/GEMPAK5.6/. If you need the binary installation instructions for Linux or Solaris, you can find them in the README file in the ~gbuddy/nawips-5.6/binary/(OSname) directory. The binary tree is found under the general GEMPAK distribution tree, which I will provide the login information and source building instructions below. Here is the information for downloading and installing GEMPAK from source. The current GEMPAK distribution is GEMPAK 5.6.C.1 --------------------------------------------------------------------- The information you need to download gempak is: host: ftp.unidata.ucar.edu login: gbuddy password: XXXXXX Please record the above information for your records. Here are the general source download and building instructions. If you are running Solaris or Linux, you can download binary distributions for these platforms. In particular, GEMPAK requires Motif which is not part of Linux. Third party Motif libraries are available, including openmotif which I have tested under RedHat Linux 7.0. Look for the README file in the binary download directory for instruction on how to install the binary release. The source distribution for building is found under ~gbuddy/nawips-5.6/gempak_upc5.6.c.1.tar.gz To build Gempak from source, download and unpack the distribution into a clean directory. Edit the csh file Gemenviron in the top directory and define the NAWIPS environmental variable to be the directory you unpacked into. Source the Gemenviron variables into your csh environment to define $NAWIPS and all the tree locations relative to NAWIPS. Then, if your system is standard configuration for Solaris, Solaris for Intel (X86) IRIX, OSF/1, AIX, Linux, HPUX- you should be able to just type "make all", followed by "make install" when the compilation finishes. If you have libraries in non-standard places, then the $NAWIPS/config/Makeinc.xxxxx file for your OS would have to be modified. You should not modify the optimization levels since some compilers don't work well with aggressive optimization (Especially Digital UNIX). Documentation for GEMPAK can be found as PDF files under the $NAWIPS/doc/User_Guide directory, as well as online at: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/gempak/tutorial/ I have provided release notes for GEMPAK 5.6 at: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/gempak/GEMPAK5.6/ All users that use Gempak should source Gemenviron into their csh environment to define the Gempak variables and add the executable directory into their path. Once the distribution is installed, you can edit the data directory locations defined in Gemenviron- but thats not a priority for building. Plese refer all questions about the distribution and any problems you may have to address@hidden. You may also wish to subscribe yourself to the gembud email list at: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/mailinglist/mailing-list-form.html Announcements about the GEMPAK distribution, including new distributions, patches, and feature enhancements are made through that list. Also, if you have information or need to find other users who may have experience with a specific data set, then you are encouraged to use the email list which is composed of fellow GEMPAK users in our community. Once you have GEMPAK installed, you can use the "dc" realtime data decoders with the LDM package to decode the data into GEMPAK format as it arrives at your site. Refer to the LDM web pages for the installation of LDM and getting connected to the IDD. Examples of LDM pqact.cont pattern/action entries for the various types of data for the GEMPAK decoders are found in the tutorial as well as in the Examples section of the GEMPAK www pages. Steve Chiswell Unidata User Support