20011129: 20011129: 20011128: 11 New NEXRAD Products in GARP (fwd)

Tom,

No, GEMPAK can't display the VAD picture. So, the rest is probably
OK to install.

Steve Chiswell


>From: Tom McDermott <address@hidden>
>Organization: UCAR/Unidata
>Keywords: 200111291818.fATIIwN13920

>On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Unidata Support wrote:
>
>> Thanks. Yes. When I wrote the original routines for 5.6.A I then sent
>> them on to NCEP and they subsequently included them in the later
>> releases without the "5" requirement. So I didn't have to do any
>> further modifications here for the current release. At the time, I was
>> pretty stringing ton the SDUS5x becase we were gettin both encrypted
>> and unencrypted data.
>>
>> All you should have to so after making the modification is rebuild
>> the im library. Then relink everything.
>
>Steve,
>
>Well I went ahead and removed the test for the '5' and then rebuilt from
>the $NAWIPS directory with 'make all' rather than the procedure below, so
>I probably rebuilt a lot of things that didn't need to be. (But it only
>took 20 minutes on my new server vs 3 hours on my old one!)  Anyways, the
>new garp executable can read all of the N1x types (and so presumbably N2x
>and N3x), NOZ, and NET.  It gives me the same error msg with NVW, but I
>can't display the WSI VAD either, so I think that's a separate issue.
>
>I will do a 'make install' on the new executables if you think it's OK to
>proceed.
>
>Tom
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>>
>> cd $GEMPAK/source/gemlib/im
>> make clean
>> make all
>> make clean
>>
>> cd $GEMPAK/source/programs
>> make clean
>> make all
>> make install
>> make clean
>>
>> cd $NAWIPS/comet/garp
>> make clean
>> make all
>> make install
>> make clean
>>
>> cd $NAWIPS/nprogs
>> make clean
>> make all
>> make install
>> make clean
>>
>>
>>
>> That is the quick fix. Of course, I would suggest eventually upgrading to
>> the latest release since there are other bug fixes included even if you don'
> t
>> need the newest developemnt features.
>>
>> Steve Chiswell
>> Unidata User Support
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> >From: Tom McDermott <address@hidden>
>> >Organization: UCAR/Unidata
>> >Keywords: 200111291717.fATHHYN09657
>>
>> >Steve,
>> >
>> >I think I've found the problem in 5.6A.  In $GEMPAK/source/gemlib/im,
>> >there is a file 'imnexhd.c', which you wrote (coincidentally time stamp
>> >exactly 1 year ago today), which checks for the string 'SDUS5', and of
>> >course the new products begin with 'SDUS[2357]'.
>> >
>> >Apparently NCEP removed this test in a subsequent version.  In the 5.6e
>> >$GEMPAK/source/gemlib/im/innexz.c file there are these comments:
>> >
>> > * Log:                                                                 *
>> > * S. Chiswell/Unidata  11/00   Created                                 *
>> > * S. Jacobs/NCEP       12/00   Removed check for "5" after "SDUS"      *
>> >
>> >So if I remove the check for the '5' in that file, it might work, unless
>> >you can think of anything else that is dependent on this check.  Do I
>> >need to do anything besides modifying the file and a 'make clean' to get
>> >it to rebuild the gempak library (and then everything else)?
>> >
>> >Tom
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>> >
>> >
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