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Mark, >Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 15:59:05 -0600 (CST) >From: "Mark J. Laufersweiler" <address@hidden> >Organization: University of Oklahoma >To: Steve Emmerson <address@hidden> >Subject: Re: ldmprods(1) (was: Re: LDM 6.3.0 released) The above message contained the following: > Okay cool. So how do I usse it so that I can see the stats as > well? The example (and how it is set up) is for the stats to go > back to Unidata. Change the rtstats(1) EXEC entry in the LDM configuration-file, ldmd.conf, so that statistics are sent to your LDM. For example EXEC "rtstats -h my.local.system" Process the rtstats(1) data-products by selecting them in a pqact(1) configuration-file. For example, we processes them via a GEMPAK decoder EXP ^rtstats PIPE decoders/dcrtstats data/rtstats/%Y%m%d.nc You can do something similar (GEMPAK was used because the person who wrote the rtstats(1) processing-system, Steve Chiswell, is also the GEMPAK guru). The data-products are formatted text and the format is documented in the rtstats(1) man(1)-page. Personally, I'd probably massage them via awk(1) into something that can be plotted via gnuplot(1). Regards, Steve Emmerson