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On Mon, 13 Dec 1999 address@hidden wrote: > > > I was going to send you a note this week and ask a couple of questions. My > attention got spread to a couple of other priorities last week. > > I'm not sure at what point I am supposed to use the script and what it > does. Your insructions said to put an entry in the pqact file that looked > something like: > > IDS|DDPLUS ^(......) (....) (......) > PIPE modHdrs -d data/sao \1\2\3 > > As you know, since I am using the acqserver from FSL, my headers all come > in under WMO, and they look more like: > > WMO 000 NOAAPORT.NWSTG.TEXT.SAUS70.KDEN.131310.1997347131651477.* > > so, should I use the following my pqact: > > WMO > ^NOAAPORT\.NWSTG\.TEXT\.(S[AIMNP]....)\.([A-Z]...)\.([0-3][0-9][0-9]..)\.[0 > -9]............... > PIPE modHdrs -d data/SURF\1\2\3 > > If this is correct, then does it have to be re-queued so pqsurf will catch > it? Alan, Yes, this will make files using the pattern ([A-Z]...)\.([0-3][0-9][0-9]..) in the data/SURF......... directory. Then the files need to be requeued. The modHdrs takes your acqserver file headers and converts them to the standard NOAAport headers that pqsurf can interpret. It doesn't change the internal data. Robb... > > Alan. > > > > > > Robb Kambic <address@hidden> on 12/10/99 05:22:46 PM > > > > To: Alan Hall/NCDC > > cc: > > > > Subject: Re: 19991101: New LDM Installation > > > > > > > > > > Alan, > > Did that perl script I sent you work? > > Robb... > > =========================================================================== > ==== > Robb Kambic Unidata Program Center > Software Engineer III Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research > address@hidden WWW: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ > =========================================================================== > ==== > > > > =============================================================================== Robb Kambic Unidata Program Center Software Engineer III Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research address@hidden WWW: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ ===============================================================================