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Re: 20010222: LDM-METAR problem (fwd) - more sample data

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  • Subject: Re: 20010222: LDM-METAR problem (fwd) - more sample data
  • Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 08:31:59 -0700 (MST)
On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Greg Thompson wrote:

> 
> > The Canadian reports are the ones missing the "PIL" line all the other
> > countries have the 2nd line filled in with a PIL, "METAR", "SPECI", etc.
> > It's the absence of that line that caused the problem in the first place.
> > So if it's a Canadian report, (SACN|SPCN) the code skips processing the
> > PIL line, all other reports do the standard processing ^S[A-Z][A-Z]...
> > that was done before. I should of been clearer in my fix description
> 
> Ahhh, got it.  Needless to say I have concerns that someday in the
> future PIL headers will be dropped for all countries.  Hopefully that
> won't be an issue for many months/years.  By Summer, I think RAP and
> my project in particular will no longer be using pqsurf as I hope
> to get everyone switched to my DB of MySQL METARs by then.  I have
> basically finished the code and am doing serious realtime testing
> now.  Problem is, many others here use the old stuff and I'll have
> to sell them on the new stuff.
> 
> Thanks for fixing pqsurf.
> 
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