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>From: James Hayes <address@hidden> >Organization: UCAR/Unidata >Keywords: 200005041813.e44IDxG03482 > >Steve, > >Thanks for the info. > >The text data is being triggered out of the AWIPS database and left in >a directory on the HP machine running the LDM. I suppose this data >most closely resembles the NOAAport data. > >Is it possible to get the decoders that would recognize this data and >decode it correctly? > >Thanks, > >Jim Hayes >NWS Gray ME > Jim, We do not have software to recognize the data without the delimeters since the decoders need to know where the start and end of a bulletin are in a stream of bulletins (off the satellite, in a PIPE stream, etc.). If you are inserting the products 1 at a time, you could create a simple program to create the FOS wrapper. If you are catting a bunch of reports out of your database then it would probably be trickier unless you could guarantee a certain format...which given the number of ways things can appear is probably going to cause problems down the road. Steve Chiswell