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>From: Gilbert Sebenste <address@hidden>
>Organization: Northern Illinois University
>Keywords: 199902261546.IAA10266 pqact.conf
Gilbert-
>I have been getting segmentation faults from WXP because I am using a
>pattern of U* when capturing all TTAA/TTBB/TTCC/TTDD reports from
>the RAOB sites around the world. DO you have a better pattern that you
>use? I am capturing a lot of stuff that is more than likely hosing the
>program.
We user the following for our supported packages:
decoders (ua2nc):
#
# upper air perl decoder
DDS|IDS ^U[ABDEFGHIJKLMPQRSTXZ].... .... ([0-3][0-9])
PIPE /usr/local/ldm/decoders/ua2nc
etc/ua.cdl
data/decoded
(\1:yy)(\1:mm)
GEMPAK (dcuair):
# upper air reports
#
DDS|IDS ^U[ABDEFGHIJKLMPQRSTXZ].... .... ([0-3][0-9])([0-2][0-9])
PIPE /usr/local/ldm/decoders/dcuair -v 1 -b 24 -n -m 16
-d data/gempak/logs/dcuair.log
-p /home/gempak/NAWIPS-5.4/gempak5.4/tables/pack/snmerg.pack
-s /home/gempak/NAWIPS-5.4/gempak5.4/tables/stns/snworld.tbl
data/gempak/upperair/YYMMDD_upa.gem
McIDAS-XCD (from WMORTE LIST DDS):
PILOT UA UA UB
RAOB UJ UJ UE UF UK UL UM UP US UG UX
These also include the PPAA, PPBB, PPCC, PPDD reports.
Don Murray