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19990303: One more question about AFOS PILs and the LDM...

  • Subject: 19990303: One more question about AFOS PILs and the LDM...
  • Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 14:07:40 -0700
>From: Gilbert Sebenste <address@hidden>
>Organization: Northern Illinois University
>Keywords: 199903021953.MAA20620 pqact.conf

Gilbert-

>> I was a little off on this.  It will only work if there is a valid time.
>> However, you can use the strftime()-based time encoding to do what you want:
>> 
>> AFOS   ^MKCSWOMCD(.*)
>>      FILE severe.%b%d
>> 
>> should give you a file severe.Mar01 for a bulletin that was injected
>> today.
>
>This stinks. My software wants it as severe.mar01 (note: no capital "M"!).
>Otherwise, it won't read it. Sigh...

You could pipe the data to a script that would create the filename
for you.  You could use the tr utility to translate from upper to lower
case.

>> See page 37 of the LDM Site Manager's Guide:
>> 
>> http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/ldm/smg.html#15982
>
>Got it. Thanks!

Let us know if you have any other questions on this.

Don