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Tom, Yes, you can remove them. The fort.nn files come from a fortran logical unit when some system stack error condition has occured. You can generally see the pieces of data in the program stack if you do an "od -c" on the file. If you are running fortran decoders (like GEMPAK, that is the likely source). Steve CHiswell >From: Tom McDermott <address@hidden> >Organization: UCAR/Unidata >Keywords: 200205221558.g4MFwOa17369 >Hello, > >I recently noticed the existence of a number of these 'fort.nn' files in >my ~ldm directory: > >-rw-r--r-- 1 ldm metbin 162225152 May 1 17:16 fort.11 >-rw-r--r-- 1 ldm metbin 162443776 Apr 24 16:55 fort.12 >-rw-r--r-- 1 ldm metbin 159705600 May 17 16:54 fort.13 >-rw-r--r-- 1 ldm metbin 161952256 May 17 17:01 fort.14 >-rw-r--r-- 1 ldm metbin 163713536 May 1 17:16 fort.15 > >As you can see, they are quite large. I don't know what they are >(perhpaps temporary files) or even if they are created by >the ldm program, but that is the first possibility to eliminate. I was >able to find this reference in the ldm support archive to one of these >files on a Unidata ldm server: > > http://unidata.ucar.edu/cgi-bin/mfs/65/2590?78#mfs > >Specifically: > >/local/ldm% ls >ldmd.pid data@ src@ ldm-5.0.1/ >etc/ doc@ mail/ ldmd_gilda.pid >fort.11 include@ util/ ldmd_buddy.pid > decoders/ lib@ ldm-5.0.5/ killpipe.csh* >bin@ logs@ ldm-5.0.4/ profiled/ >build@ man@ ldm-5.0.3/ >classes@ runtime@ ldm-5.0.2/ > >If you know what these files are, is it OK to delete them? As you can >see, they are quite huge on my system. Thanks. > >Tom >----------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Tom McDermott Email: address@hidden >Systems Administrator Phone: (585) 395-5718 >Earth Sciences Dept. Fax: (585) 395-2416 >SUNY College at Brockport >