20000119: LDM (fwd)

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Robb Kambic                                Unidata Program Center
Software Engineer III                      Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research
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Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 11:09:52 -0700
From: Unidata Support <address@hidden>
To: Ka Kit Lai <address@hidden>
Subject: 20000119: LDM 


Ka Kit,

The LDM distribution runs the pqact program which uses the 
~ldm/etc/pqact.conf file to define what actions will be used to
store the data on your system.

The nwx.tbl and decoders.tbl files I provide are example for entries
that can be used within your pqact.conf file- eg, you will edit your 
~ldm/etc/pqact.conf file to incorporate the nwx.tbl and decoder.tbl
entries that you want to have available on your system. The nwx.tbl
and decoder.tbl files are subsets of what you would have in your
~ldm/etc/pqact.conf file. In general, you will use all of the
nwx.tbl entries in your pqact.conf file for NWX. You probably will
want to select certain model grids  etc from the decoders.tbl file
for use in pqactl.conf. Since there are many different models and
grid projections available, you should select only those that you
need and have space on disk for.

When the pqact program finds data you receive which matches the pattern
in the pqact.conf file, it will FILE, or PIPE the data as requested by
your action.

Steve Chiswell
Unidata User Support


>From: "Ka Kit Lai" <address@hidden>
>Organization: .
>Keywords: 200001191802.LAA09256

>I think I have the TAB charcter preserve for the pqact.conf file. Is there 
>any command that I need to use to FILEs the products from pqact because I 
>already perform the LDM binary installation and I dont know what to do with 
>the nwx.tbl, decoders.tbl and pqact.conf files. Is that what you means is 
>after I execute some command, the nwx subdirectory at 
>/usr/local/ldm/data/gempak/nwx will be create? But what do I need to do to 
>achieve that and what else do I need to do?
>
>                                    Ka Kit Lai
>>From: Unidata Support <address@hidden>
>>To: "Ka Kit Lai" <address@hidden>
>>CC: address@hidden
>>Subject: 20000119: LDM
>>Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 10:29:46 -0700
>>
>> >From: "Ka Kit Lai" <address@hidden>
>> >Organization: .
>> >Keywords: 200001121700.KAA16792
>>
>> >To Whom It May Concern:
>> >   This is Ka Kit from the City College Of New York. I just installed the
>> >new Gempak 5.4 and I need help to configurate the LDM so that the Gempak 
>>can
>> >get the data feed from it. I already downloaded 2 files from unidata:
>> >decoders.tbl, nwx.tbl and another copy and paste file called pqact.conf. 
>>But
>> >I have some problem when assign the environmental variable TEXT_DATA 
>>which
>> >is set in $NAWIPS/Gemenviron, it said it should point to the top of the 
>>NWX
>> >data tree. I only have  the path /usr/local/ldm/data/gempak and I dont 
>>have
>> >a NWX subdirectory below that, should I create it? After that, what 
>>should I
>> >do?
>> >Thank you.
>> >
>> >                                         Ka Kit Lai
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>>
>>The LDM will create the /usr/local/ldm/data/gempak/nwx/.... tree
>>when it FILEs the products from pqact. In this case, you do not have
>>to create all the subdirectories that the nwx data will be written in to.
>>
>>The $TEXT_DATA environmental variable will point to
>>/usr/local/ldm/data/gempak/nwx
>>
>>One thing you need to be careful with pqact.conf is that the TAB positions
>>in the file are important. If you download the nwx.tbl file
>>from the WWW and use the browser's save function- the tab positions will
>>be preserved in the file as saved to your computer. If you use the xterm
>>copy and past using the mouse however, you will probably find
>>that the TAB characters are pasted as white space which removes the
>>TAB entries- so be careful there.
>>
>>Steve Chiswell
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