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Patrick, The current distribution (5.6.J) contains entries in $GEMTBL/sat/imgtyp.tbl for GOES 11 and GOES 12. If you don't have them, then here they are for you to add to your file: GOES11 VIS 30 220 76 1 1 GRAY GOES11 IR2 0 255 76 2 1 GRAY GOES11 IR3 0 255 76 4 1 watvap.tbl GOES11 IR4 0 255 76 8 1 GRAY GOES11 IR5 0 255 76 16 1 GRAY GOES12 VIS 30 220 78 1 1 GRAY GOES12 IR2 0 255 78 2 1 GRAY GOES12 IR3 0 255 78 4 1 watvap.tbl GOES12 IR4 0 255 78 8 1 GRAY Steve Chiswell Unidata User Support On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Patrick O'Reilly wrote: > I know I probably missed an email regarding GOES-12 and gempak, but here > goes anyway. When I run my script to create an image using gpmap, I get: > > [IM 1] No image type entry for file > /usr/local/ldm/data/gempak/images/sat/GOES-12/4km/VIS/VIS_20030401_1915 > > This is probably fixed by an edit to a table somewhere? Or will an upgrade > to the 5.6.j version fix this? Thanks! > > Patrick > _______________________________________ > Patrick O'Reilly > Meteorological Decision Support Scientist > The STORM Project - University of Northern Iowa > address@hidden ~ ph: 319-273-3789 > http://www.uni.edu/storm > > "No trees were killed in the making of this e-mail...however, > a large number of electrons were horribly inconvenienced." >