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This anwers my questions. I'm trying to stay ahead of the ball here and when I see some new products, I look at them and trying to decode and display them. The SDUS97 products are test NIDS data and I was afraid they would start bundling a ton of products like this under one header and then the LDM couldn't adequately sort the products out. I had forgotten about the 97 test situation and this now makes sense for the NIDS data. They will probably put these under separate distinct bulletins in the future. Thanks for the update on LDM. Even though I don't use LDM at Unisys, all the universities that use WXP, use the LDM so I need to get WXP to interface in as simply as possible. On the issue of NIDS on NOAAPORT, I jumped the gun thinking some subset of NIDS data would be generally available on NOAAPORT and this is not the case. When they go to encrypting the data, which I suspect will be soon, it will out of general use until the new NIDS contract comes to an end in Sep 2001. So my rush to get WXP to handle these files is 2 years too soon. I guess it doesn't hurt to have this capability in WXP now. ________________________________________________________ Daniel Vietor Mail: address@hidden Unisys Corp Title: Engineer/Meteorologist 221 Gale Lane Phone: 610-444-2407 Kennett Square PA 19348 Fax: 610-444-2420