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Dongyu, In looking at your dcuair and dcmetr entries, it appears that your GEMTBL setting in both instances is wrong. The GEMTBL location shoule point to $NAWIPS/gempak/tables, whereas it looks like you are pointing it to $NAWIPS/tables (where NAWIPS on your system is /export/home0/gempack/). So, you should have -e GEMTBL=/export/home0/gempack/gempak/tables. Also, once GEMTBL is correctly set, you won't have to specify the packing file for dcmetr, or you can simplify to -p metar.pack. Also, if desired, you could simplify the pqact pattern for surface data to: WMO ^S[AP].* Steve Chiswell On Tue, 7 Jan 2003 address@hidden wrote: > Hi,Steve: > > > > > > > I have a question about the surface data receiving.Could you give me > > > some advice. I can receive the upperair data, but I can't receive the > > > surface data. I don't know why. > > > > > > > The scirpt file in pqact.conf is like this: > > > > > > > #upperair data > > > > > > > DDS|IDS ^U[ABDEFGHIJKLMPQRSTXZ].... .... ([0-3][0-9])([0-2][0-9]) > > > > > > > PIPE /export/home0/ldm/decoders/dcuair -b 24 -m 16 > > > > > > > -d /export/home0/ldm/data/gempak/logs/dcuair.log > > > > > > > -e GEMTBL=/export/home0/gempack/tables/stns > > > > > > > -s snstns.tbl > > > > > > > data/gempak/upperair/YYYYMMDD_upa.gem > > > > > > > > > > > #surface data > > > > > > > DDS|IDS ^S[AP].* .... ([0-3][0-9])([0-2][0-9]) > > > > > > > PIPE /export/home0/ldm/decoders/dcmetr -b 9 -m 72 > > > > > > > -d /export/home0/ldm/data/gempak/logs/dcmetr.log > > > > > > > -p /export/home0/gempack/gempak/tables/pack/metar.pack > > > > > > > -s sfmetar_sa.tbl > > > > > > > -e GEMTBL=/export/home0/gempack/tables/stns > > > > > > > data/gempak/surface/YYYYMMDD_sao.gem > > > > > > > > > > > The log file of surface is like this: > > > > > > > > > > > [10939] 030107/1823 [SF -1] data/gempak/surface/20030107_sao.gem > > > > > > > [10939] 030107/1823 [FL -1] sfmetar_sa.tbl > > > > > > > [10939] 030107/1823 [DC -13] > > > > > > > [10939] 030107/1823 [DP -7] metar.pack > > > > > > > [10939] 030107/1823 [SF -1] data/gempak/surface/20030107_sao.gem > > > > > > > [10939] 030107/1823 [SF -1] data/gempak/surface/20030107_sao.gem > > > > > > > [10939] 030107/1823 [DC -9] > > > > > > > [10939] 030107/1823 [DC 5] > > > > > > > [10939] 030107/1823 [DC 2] Number of bulletins read and processed: 8 > > > > > > > [10939] 030107/1823 [DC 6] > > > > > > > [10941] 030107/1823 [DC 3] > > > > > > > [10941] 030107/1823 [IN -11] metar.pack > > > > > > > [10941] 030107/1823 [FL -1] sfmetar_sa.tbl > > > > > > > [10941] 030107/1823 [DC -13] > > > > > > > [10941] 030107/1823 [DP -7] metar.pack > > > > > > > [10941] 030107/1823 [SF -1] data/gempak/surface/20030107_sao.gem > > > > > > > [10941] 030107/1823 [SF -1] data/gempak/surface/20030107_sao.gem > > > > > > > [10941] 030107/1823 [FL -1] sfmetar_sa.tbl > > > > > > > [10941] 030107/1823 [DC -13] > > > > > > > [10941] 030107/1823 [DP -7] metar.pack > > > > > > > [10941] 030107/1823 [SF -1] data/gempak/surface/20030107_sao.gem > > > > > > > [10941] 030107/1823 [SF -1] data/gempak/surface/20030107_sao.gem > > > > > > > [10941] 030107/1823 [DC -9] > > > > > > > [10941] 030107/1823 [DC 5] > > > > > > > [10941] 030107/1823 [DC 2] Number of bulletins read and processed: 2 > > > > > > > [10941] 030107/1823 [DC 6] > > > > > > > [10945] 030107/1823 [DC 3] > > > > > > > [10945] 030107/1823 [IN -11] metar.pack > > > > > > > [10945] 030107/1823 [FL -1] sfmetar_sa.tbl > > > > > > > [10945] 030107/1823 [DC -13] > > > > > > > [10945] 030107/1823 [DP -7] metar.pack > > > > > > > [10945] 030107/1823 [SF -1] data/gempak/surface/20030107_sao.gem > > > > > > > [10945] 030107/1823 [SF -1] data/gempak/surface/20030107_sao.gem > > > > > > > [10945] 030107/1823 [FL -1] sfmetar_sa.tbl > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > The log file of upper file is like this: > > > > > > > [11208] 030107/1906 [DC -9] > > > > > > > [11208] 030107/1906 [DC 5] > > > > > > > [11208] 030107/1906 [DC 2] Number of bulletins read and processed: 6 > > > > > > > [11208] 030107/1906 [DC 6] > > > > > > > [11211] 030107/1906 [DC 3] > > > > > > > [11211] 030107/1906 [DC -9] > > > > > > > [11211] 030107/1906 [DC 5] > > > > > > > [11211] 030107/1906 [DC 2] Number of bulletins read and processed: 4 > > > > > > > [11211] 030107/1906 [DC 6] > > > > > > > [11217] 030107/1906 [DC 3] > > > > > > > [11217] 030107/1909 [DC -9] > > > > > > > [11217] 030107/1909 [DC 5] > > > > > > > [11217] 030107/1909 [DC 2] Number of bulletins read and processed: 96 > > > > > > > [11217] 030107/1909 [DC 6] > > > > > > > [11228] 030107/1909 [DC 3] > > > > > > > [11228] 030107/1910 [DC -9] > > > > > > > [11228] 030107/1910 [DC 5] > > > > > > > [11228] 030107/1910 [DC 2] Number of bulletins read and processed: 10 > > > > > > > [11228] 030107/1910 [DC 6] > > > > > > > [11231] 030107/1910 [DC 3] > > > > > > > [11231] 030107/1910 [DC -9] > > > > > > > [11231] 030107/1910 [DC 5] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Thank you very much! > > > > > > > Dongyu > > > > > > > >