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Tom,
I saved some of the floaters products on zero, ~ldm/data/radar. These
products have 2 extras nulls at the end so they have different md5
checksums.
ie.
...
...
0102220 327 020 W 347 020 W 027 \0 310 l 233 372 \r \r \n 003
0102240 \0 \0
Hopefully your decoder can handle the extra chars. Also are the file
names in a usable format?
The pqact entry:
# save FLOATER
NMC3 ^FLOATER SDUS5. .... ([0-3][0-9])([0-2][0-9])([0-5][0-9])
/p(......)
FILE data/radar/(\1:yyyy)(\1:mm)\1\2\3.\4
#
Robb...
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Robb Kambic Unidata Program Center
Software Engineer III Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research
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