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William, pqcat will dump raw data to standard out, eg grib is binary. That is a different program that pqact which runs the pattern/actions to file or process you data. pqcat simple "cats" from the queue. I sent you a message earlier regarding data. We have been away at a staff retreat so I am just getting to email now. Since NCEP had the file, they have had several coms outages, so I suspect that your initial connection to flip was during a period when there was no data to send to you, rather than just starting to work. Steve Chiswell Unidata User Support >From: William Smith <address@hidden> >Organization: . >Keywords: 199910201903.NAA02803 >Steve, > >When I came in this morning I checked on the LDM process. It seems >to have started working about 5:00 AM Hawaii time. Status logs >appear in ~logs directory about that time, and the RUC2 tests I >use had data in them directories. > >I was able to monitor incoming with the "ldmadmin watch" command. >The only thing that doesn't seem to be working is the pqcat command. >It dumps binary data to the screen. It isn't supposed to do that >is it? > >If you (UCAR) or we (MHPCC) didn't do something I'm curious to know >what happened. I distrust programs that suddenly start working. > >Thanks for your help yesterday; it pointed out directory changes I >needed to make. > > > > >William > >_____________________________________________________________________________ >William Smith address@hidden >Maui High Performance Computing Center (808) 879-5077 >550 Lipoa Parkway (808) 879-5018 (fax) >Kihei, HI 96753 WWW: http://www.mhpcc.edu >_____________________________________________________________________________ >