19991119: tafrpt(McIDAS) not reporting all available European TAF"S

>From: Robert Mullenax <address@hidden>
>Organization: NMSU/NSBF
>Keywords: 199911192037.NAA23504 McIDAS shell scripts

Robert,

Hi, Tom here. I'm back from Down Under, so I will handle this one.

>Thanks for looking into that for me.
>
>Maybe you could help me with the question I posted to mcidas-x.
>I am trying to add thickness to the list of parameters
>on our web page and I cannot get the string used to
>calculate thickness to work in the Bourne shell script.
>
>G1='PARAM Z;LEV 500;FHOUR 24' G2='LEV 1000' MATH='G1-G2'
>
>I have tried using backslashes to protect the quotes, double
>quotes, combinations, and I can't get to produce anything.
>
>When I try this:
>
>grddisp.k RTGRIDS/AVN TDA=CAL NAV=C DAY=1999323 DASH=NEG G1="'PARAM Z;LEV 500;
> FH
>OUR 36;TIME 12;GPRO MERC'" G2="'LEV 1000'" MATH="'G1-G2'" CINT=60
>
>I get:
>grddisp.k: GRID SERVER COULDNT FIND FILE 0 
>
>If I but backslashes in front of the single quotes, I get the same thing.
>
>If I don't use the double quotes, then the shell complains that it 
>LEV, FHOUR..etc not found.
>
>Any ideas?

I took your grddisp.k invocation and created a simple test script that
exercises it so I could verify your problem.  With the following, I did
verify the error you were getting:

#!/bin/sh

MCHOME=/home/mcidas
MCDATA=$MCHOME/workdata
MCPATH=${MCDATA}:$MCHOME/data:$MCHOME/help
PATH=$MCHOME/bin:$PATH
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/openwin/lib:/opt/SUNWspro/SC4.2/lib:$MCHOME/lib:/usr/lib:/u
sr/ucblib
cd $MCDATA

MCPATH=$MCPATH PATH=$PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH mcenv << EOF

map.k NA
grddisp.k RTGRIDS/AVN TDA=CAL NAV=C DAY=1999323 DASH=NEG G1="'PARAM Z;LEV 
500;FHOUR 36;TIME 12;GPRO MERC'" G2="'LEV 1000'" MATH="'G1-G2'" CINT=60

EOF

# Done
exit 0

What happens in the above is that the double quotes are not evaluated
(meaning that the command line looks just like it is typed above).  So,
what is needed is:

#!/bin/sh

MCHOME=/home/mcidas
MCDATA=$MCHOME/workdata
MCPATH=${MCDATA}:$MCHOME/data:$MCHOME/help
PATH=$MCHOME/bin:$PATH
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/openwin/lib:/opt/SUNWspro/SC4.2/lib:$MCHOME/lib:/usr/lib:/u
sr/ucblib
cd $MCDATA

MCPATH=$MCPATH PATH=$PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH mcenv << EOF

map.k NA
grddisp.k RTGRIDS/AVN TDA=CAL NAV=C DAY=1999323 DASH=NEG G1='PARAM Z;LEV 
500;FHOUR 36;TIME 12;GPRO MERC' G2='LEV 1000' MATH='G1-G2' CINT=60

EOF

# Done
exit 0

The second script runs with the following output:

sh test.sh
In .cshrc...
MAP: completed frame  1
grddisp.k: Done with graphic frame 1
GRDDISP - done

>Thanks,

Let me know if you see different results on your machine, or if you were
not using the mcenv << EOF construct (I figured you were since the GRDDISP
invocation says to plot on top of what is already in the frame).

Tom