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Bob, Are you using the binary that I provided which was compiled under RH 7.3? You might have to build it locally under 9.0 if the Motif library is not compatible with 9.0's X server. Steve Chiswell >From: "Robert J. Ballentine" <address@hidden> >Organization: UCAR/Unidata >Keywords: 200307171926.h6HJQ1Ld021489 >Support: > We are running NAWIPS-5.6J on several computers running RedHat 9.0. >Most things work OK, but we have a problem when plotting precipitation >and a few other quantities. We are getting the following warnings: > >[wx@met-07 ~]$ Invoke ... /apps/NAWIPS/bin/linux/garp >G A R P - v2.1 starting... >Warning: > Name: model_level2_label > Class: XmTextField > Character '\61' not supported in font. Discarded. > >Warning: > Name: model_level2_label > Class: XmTextField > Character '\60' not supported in font. Discarded. > >Warning: > Name: model_level2_label > Class: XmTextField > Character '\60' not supported in font. Discarded. > >Warning: > Name: model_level2_label > Class: XmTextField > Character '\60' not supported in font. Discarded. > >Warning: > Name: hs_scale_factor > Class: XmTextField > Character '\60' not supported in font. Discarded. > > When we try to display the precipitation and go to More, >a blank field shows up in the Scale/Factor box and in the >Minimum and Maximum Contour boxes. We cannot be certain >what will be plotted. When we manually insert 0 in the >scale box and 0.05 (for .05 inches) in the Minimum Contour >box, it plots OK, but we still get the font warnings. Our >fdf for Precip_6hr_in has correct values for Scale Factor >and Contour Minimum etc, but apparently the values are >being ignored by GARP. > We notice no such difficulty on our machines that are >running RedHat 7.0 or RedHat 7.3. > Has anyone else had this problem? Can you suggest a >fix? > Thanks, > Bob Ballentine >