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Re: Two questions... (fwd)

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  • Subject: Re: Two questions... (fwd)
  • Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 15:27:03 -0600 (MDT)

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Robb Kambic                                Unidata Program Center
Software Engineer III                      Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 15:15:14 -0500 (CDT)
From: Gilbert Sebenste <address@hidden>
To: Robb Kambic <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: Two questions...

Hi Rob,

> UIUC gets it's data from thelma, main IDD source and it's up and
> distributing data fine.  One can check IDD status on Web page:
> 
> http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/projects/idd/iddgeneral.html#status
> 
> The details of the topology and data feeds and latencies are available.

Wow. A LOT of "UNKNOWN"s. Hmmm...didn't tell me anything...
 
> > Second, I am trying to send weather warnings to my pager, but I get a lot
> > of garbled and weird characters where there are spaces and carriage
> > returns. I'm running Linux Redhat 5.2. Any suggestions to get rid of those
> > characters?
> 
> There's a -strip flag to eliminate control chars from products, ie
> 
> WMO     ^CSUS02 KRAP ([0-3][0-9])([0-2][0-9])
>         FILE    -overwrite -strip /fore/data/gempak/climo

That worked. Thanks!
Question: who/what are the machines that inject NOAAPORT into the IDD?

Gilbert

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Gilbert Sebenste                                                     ********
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