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Pavel, For your real-time data, don't try to file it under your GEMPAK distribution directories. That will make upgrading GEMPAK difficult in the future. Under your ~ldm directory, you should have a data/ directory. This directory should have at least ldm.pq in it. The GEMDATA directory should be your ~ldm/data/gempak directory. If you fololow that convention, then you will be able to use the pqact.conf examples I provided you with. When running pqact, the data directories will be relative to your ~ldm (LDMHOME) directory, unless a full path is used). So, for example, to file the NIDS products from the NNEXRAD data feed, you will have a pqact.conf entry that looks like: NNEXRAD ^SDUS[2357]. .... ([0-3][0-9])([0-2][0-9])([0-6][0-9]).*/p(...)(...) FILE -close data/gempak/nexrad/NIDS/\5/\4/\4_(\1:yyyy)(\1:mm)\1_\2\3 The location of the FILE action is the data/gempak/nexrad/NIDS....tree which is relative to LDMHOME, so this should be: ~ldm/data/gempak/nexrad/NIDS/..... If your GEMDATA variable is defined in Gemenviron as: ~ldm/data/gempak, then $RAD will automatically be defined as ~ldm/data/gempak/nexrad. When you open up Garp, and click on the imagery icon, the RADDIR line in Garp_defaults is set to $RAD, and so you will see the NIDS widget as one option to select. Under that will be the individual radars and products. Steve Chiswell Unidata User Support > >---------- Forwarded message ---------- >Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 16:35:10 -0400 (EDT) >From: Pavel Byles-Howard University Engineering <address@hidden> >To: Jeff Weber <address@hidden> >Subject: Re: HU > >Jeff, >If in my ldmd.conf file in the request Entries section it has: >request WSI ".*" snow.nrcc.cornell.edu > >Does that necessarily mean that I am getting WSI packages? Which is NIDS >radar packages. Because Garp should be able to display NIDS data. > >Just an overview: >When I set this it will transfer to my ~ldm/data dir. I only want right >now to get one type of package. >Gempak is installed in ~ldm/Gempak ($NAWIPS dir) >$GEMPAK = $NAWIPS/gempak >$GEMPAKHOME = $NAWIPS/gempak >$GEMDATA = $GEMPAK/data = ~ldm/Gempak/gempak/data > >So that means that I put the data from the ldm into the $GEMDATA dir? >Overview end >That means when I open my Garp I can diaplay the data. >Is that correct so far? > >So in my ~ldm/Gempak/comet/garp/config/Garp_defaults file I define the >GARPHOME variable as $NAWIPS/comet/garp and the >RADDIR variable as $NAWIPS/data/radar >Am I correct? > >I probably am not because I when I get into garp I don't see anything to >display from the data. The data in the RADDIR is as follows >AA -> KNHC -> 04 -> PW00.wmo, PW20.wmo, PW65.wmo, PW85.wmo > >What changes do I need to make? > >Thanks again. > >-- >Pavel Byles >Sent using Pine ver. 4.4 >on RedHat Linux 7.3 >http://138.238.177.225 > > >