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20020122: dcacft problems

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  • Subject: 20020122: dcacft problems
  • Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 16:37:11 -0700
Jason,

Looks like your decoder isn't finding the $GEMTBL/stns/pirep_navaids.tbl
file.

The dcacft example I have shows the use of the -e flag to set the
environmental variable GEMTBL for the decoder environment
since your LDM account probably doesn't set the GEMTBL variable
used for locating the necessary station tables:

#
# Decoder for Aircraft Observations
DDPLUS|IDS      (^U[ABDR].... ....|^XRXX84 KAWN|^YIXX84 KAWN) 
([0-3][0-9])([0-2][0-9])
        PIPE    decoders/dcacft -e GEMTBL=/home/gempak/NAWIPS/gempak/tables
        -d data/gempak/logs/dcacft.log
        data/gempak/acft/YYYYMMDDHH_acf.gem


If you are setting the GEMTBL location as above, verify that the location
is correct and you have the 2 required files:
pirep_navaids.tbl
airep_waypnts.tbl

Both tables are part of the distribution, so you should have them.

Steve Chiswell
Unidata User Support



On Tue, 22 Jan 2002, Jason J. Levit wrote:

>
>   Hi all,
>
>   I'm using the GEMPAK "dcacft" decoder in an attempt to decode some
> real-time PIREP data.  I'm receiving this error:
>
> [167607315] 020122/1705 [FL -1] pirep_navaids.tbl
> [167607315] 020122/1705 [DC 5]
> [167607315] 020122/1705 [DC 2] Number of bulletins read and processed: 0
> [167607315] 020122/1705 [DC 6]
>
>   I can't find any documentation on what "[FL -1]" means.  Thanks
> for any information or help!
>
>   Jason Levit
>
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