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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: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 16:48:36 -0700 From: "Glenn P. Davis" <address@hidden> To: Gilbert Sebenste <address@hidden> Subject: More on AFOS Gilbert: Robb & I think we know what your question is, finally. We think that you are getting AFOS for the first time, and that you are asking how to modify your pqact entries which were written for the Family of Services (WMO) input to work for AFOS. Suppose you had a pqact.conf entry like this: WMO ^WWUS.. FILE somefile_of_warnings For the AFOS input, you would need a line like AFOS \(WWUS.. FILE somefile_of_warnings That is to say, where before you match on the beginning of a line, for AFOS, you would match on the literal '(' in the ldm product id. Of course, if you know the AFOS PIL for the products you are interested in, you can match on that, anchored at the beginning of the product id. For example, if you were interested in convective sigmet from MKC, you could use a pattern like this: AFOS ^MKCWSTW FILE somesigmet_file instead of AFOS \(WSUS42 KMKC FILE somesigmet_file -glenn