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Re: 20010108: DIFAX-like products available through IDD (fwd)

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  • Subject: Re: 20010108: DIFAX-like products available through IDD (fwd)
  • Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 10:17:51 -0700 (MST)
Hi Jim, 

How's the data flowing?

-Jeff
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 16:47:51 -0500 (EST)
From: C. Vandersip <address@hidden>
To: Jeff Weber <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: 20010108: DIFAX-like products available through IDD (fwd)

Yep, you're right.  Been very busy as I transition outta here.  I added my
own request lines to ldmd.conf and added DIFAX to CofC's allow line.  Let
me know if all's well now.

Chris

On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Jeff Weber wrote:

> Chris, 
> 
> DIFAX feed is now in use for our community see below....
> 
> -Jeff
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> Unidata Support                               PH:303-497-8676 
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 21:59:27 -0700
> From: Unidata Support <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden
> Cc: address@hidden
> Subject: 20010108: DIFAX-like products available through IDD
> 
> >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.
> 
> 
> 

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