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=============================================================================== Robb Kambic Unidata Program Center Software Engineer III Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research address@hidden WWW: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ =============================================================================== ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 20:19:44 -0600 (MDT) From: LDM <address@hidden> To: address@hidden Subject: MCIDAS pqact.conf entry problem I have tried to get the following MCIDAS pqact.conf entry working, but it does not produce. I can extract a png file from the queue using pqcat and pipe it to pnga2area and produce an area file without problems. So it must be something in my pqact.conf file that is amiss. Can anyone clue me in? Thanks. # GOES West Visible MCIDAS ^pnga2area Q1 (U9) (.*) (.*) (.*) (.*) (........) (....) PIPE -close /home/ldm/ldm-mcidas-7.6.4/bin/pnga2area -l /home/ldm/ldm-mcidas-7.6.4/logs/mcidas.log -a /home/ldm/ldm-mcidas-7.6.4/etc/SATANNOT -b /home/ldm/ldm-mcidas-7.6.4/etc/SATBAND /home/ldm/data/unidata/mcidas/%y%m%d%H_svw.mca Dallas ------------------------------------------ Dallas Masters Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research University of Colorado, Boulder (303) 492-4075 http://ccar.colorado.edu ------------------------------------------