Re: 20010110: DIFAX-like products available through IDD

HI Celia, 

I have checked thelma and we seem to be getting some difax, and we have an
"allow any" for you. Have things improved since your last  message?

Jan 10 20:54:56 notifyme[29845]: Starting Up: thelma.ucar.edu:
20010106165456.77
3 TS_ENDT {{DIFAX,  ".*"}}
Jan 10 20:55:00 notifyme[29845]: NOTIFYME(thelma.ucar.edu): OK
Jan 10 20:59:58 notifyme[29845]:   572165 20010110153126.728   DIFAX 000
one_mo
isture_12Z.ps.gz
Jan 10 21:01:45 notifyme[29845]:   767653 20010110153240.906   DIFAX 000
11x17_
sfcmap_15Z.ps.gz
Jan 10 21:01:53 notifyme[29845]:   767652 20010110153252.807   DIFAX 000
85x11_
sfcmap_15Z.ps.gz
Jan 10 21:02:12 notifyme[29845]: Connection reset by peer
Jan 10 21:02:12 notifyme[29845]: Disconnect
Jan 10 21:03:02 notifyme[29845]: NOTIFYME(thelma.ucar.edu): RPC: Timed out
Jan 10 21:08:05 notifyme[29845]: NOTIFYME(thelma.ucar.edu):
h_clnt_create(thelma
.ucar.edu): Timed out while creating connection
Jan 10 21:09:45 notifyme[29845]: NOTIFYME(thelma.ucar.edu): OK
Jan 10 21:10:34 notifyme[29845]:   949085 20010110154015.749   DIFAX 000
11x17_
ngm4panel_12Z_24h.ps.gz
Jan 10 21:10:41 notifyme[29845]:   949084 20010110154101.907   DIFAX 000
85x11_
ngm4panel_12Z_24h.ps.gz       


Let me know and we will make sure you are getting the data if you still
are not getting it.

Thanks,

-Jeff
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On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Unidata Support wrote:

> 
> ------- Forwarded Message
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> >To: address@hidden
> >cc: address@hidden (Celia Chen)
> >From: address@hidden (Celia Chen)
> >Subject: Re: 20010108: DIFAX-like products available through IDD
> >Organization: UCAR/Unidata
> >Keywords: 200101100007.f0A07Ao14627
> 
> I am trying to feed CGD folks the DIFAX data but found out that I can't
> get the feed on iita.  It looks like thelma requests the feed from
> mapmaker.meteor.wisc.edu, but for some reason I am not seeing the 
> data on thelma either.
> 
> Any advice will be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Celia
> 
> 
> > 
> > >From: Unidata User Support <address@hidden>
> > >Organization: UCAR Unidata Program
> > >Keywords: 200101082337.f08Nb5o00794 IDD DIFAX products
> > 
> > Hello and Happy New Year DIFAX and IDD participants,
> > 
> > On behalf of the Unidata Users Committee, we are pleased to announce a
> > community-based effort that will provide DIFAX-like products through
> > the IDD.
> > 
> > Pete Pokrandt (University of Wisconsin-Madison) has developed GEMPAK
> > scripts that generate a suite of DIFAX-like products (in both 8.5x11
> > and 11x17 formats).  These products will be made available as compressed
> > Postscript (tm) files that can be uncompressed and piped to a
> > Postscript printer by LDM pqact.conf entries.  This process simulates
> > the original DIFAX distribution method.
> > 
> > For a detailed description of how to configure your pqact.conf entries,
> > please visit:
> > 
> > http://www.aos.wisc.edu/~poker/uw-difax.html
> > 
> > The products currently being produced at UW can be found in the daily
> > directory by selecting a date and viewing the maps at:
> > 
> > http://mapmaker.meteor.wisc.edu/difaxmaps/
> > 
> > The scripts used to generate some of these products can be found at and
> > downloaded from:
> > 
> > http://mapmaker.meteor.wisc.edu/difaxmaps/scripts
> > 
> > Joe St. Sauver (University of Oregon) will also be generating these
> > products and feeding them to IDD top level ingest sites to provide
> > redundancy for the DIFAX feed in the near future.
> > 
> > All top level IDD sites already are receiving the products.  For you to
> > receive them, request DIFAX from your existing upstream host.  If you
> > experience difficulty receiving the products, please contact your
> > upstream site to determine if they are requesting the DIFAX feed from
> > their upstream site.
> > 
> > Many thanks to Pete and Joe for their work in providing the community
> > with products that can be used to populate map room walls with
> > "genuine imitation DIFAX products."
> > 
> > Unidata has also created a DIFAX alternatives page offering other
> > options for generating and viewing DIFAX-like products:
> > 
> > http://unidata.ucar.edu/community/community.difax.html
> > 
> > We hope the above will encourage sites to generate maps of interest and
> > to share those maps with the Unidata IDD community.
> > 
> > Questions/comments should be sent to Unidata User Support at the address
> > below.
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Celia Chen
> RAP/NCAR
> 
> "Nothing is as strong as gentleness or as gentle as strength."
>                                       - Dove Milk Promises
> 
> 
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