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19990827: Gempak Download information

Mark,

We have received notification that the licence information
for Cornell has been updated to include  Gempak.

The information you need to download gempak is:
host: ftp.unidata.ucar.edu
login: gbuddy
passwd: XXXXXX

The source distribution is found under
~gbuddy/nawips-5.4/gempak54upc_pl12.tar.gz

The current tar file is patched through patch level 12.

To build Gempak from source, download and unpack the distribution into
a clean directory. Edit the csh file Gemenviron in the top directory
and define the NAWIPS environmental variable to be the directory you
unpacked into. Source the Gemenviron variables into your csh
environment to define $NAWIPS and all the tree locations relative to
NAWIPS. Then, if your system is standard configuration for Solaris,
Solaris for Intel (X86) IRIX, OSF/1, AIX, Linux, HPUX- you should be able 
to just type "make all", followed by "make install" when the compilation 
finishes. 
If you have libraries in non-standard places, then the 
$NAWIPS/config/Makeinc.xxxxx
file for your OS would have to be modified. You should not modify the 
optimization levels since some compilers don't work well with aggressive
optimization.

You can obtain a binary distributions for Linux (linux requires 3rd party
Motif, so binary is needed if you don't have Motif) or Solaris X86 if that 
is more convenient than building from source. These distributions can be
found as:
~gbuddy/nawips-5.4/binary/linux/gempak5.4_pl12_linux.tar.gz
~gbuddy/nawips-5.4/binary/solaris_X86/gempak5.4_pl12_x86.tar.gz

Documentation for GEMAPK can be found as postscript files under
the $NAWIPS/doc/User_Guide directory, as well as online at:
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/gempak/tutorial/

All users that use Gempak should source Gemenviron into their csh
environment to define the Gempak variables and add the executable
directory into their path. Once the distribution is installed,
you can edit the data directory locations defined in Gemenviron-
but thats not a priority for building.

If you need more information, let me know what platform you will be 
using, etc. and I can give you more platform specific information.
The current distribution is supported on the following platforms:
Sun Solaris 2.x
SGI Irix 5.x, 6.x
HP HPUX 10.x, 11.0
IBM AIX 4.x
DEC OSF/1 4.x
Solaris 2.x for Intel
Linux 5.2 (requires Motif for GUI applications).

Steve Chiswell