>From: Nancy Selover <address@hidden>
>Organization: ASU
>Keywords: 200511100023.jAA0NW7s010584 ldm-mcidas pnga2area logging
Hi Nancy,
>I tried the command:
>file ~ldm/decoders/pnga2area and I got the response line:
>
>/huser/ldm/decoders/pnga2area: COFF format alpha executable paged
>dynamically linked stripped - version 3.11-10
>
>Does that mean it's okay?
Hmm... No, not if you are running on a Linux system.
Here, for example, is the same 'file' invocation on another user's
Fedora Core Linux system:
$ file /home/ldm/decoders/bin/pnga2area
/home/ldm/decoders/bin/pnga2area: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386,
version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.2.5, dynamically linked (uses shared libs),
stripped
>Also, on the pqact line, the -v1 was my typing a "one" in my e-mail to
>you. I didn't edit that part of the pqaact.gempak_images file, so I
>presume it's actually an "ell" in the file.
OK. You musth have edited the pqact.conf entry for GEMPAK because
the examples provided by GEMPAK don't include the '-a' and '-b'
flags.
>If this pnga2area file is corrupt, where do I find a new copy of the
>file? I'm using the Linux binary 5.8.3a.
Given the results of you running 'file ~ldm/decoders/pnga2area' I am
guessing that you got/will get an error if you try to run pnga2area
from the command line:
<as 'ldm'>
~ldm/decoders/pnga2area <- will list out help info if it runs
If trying to run this from the command line fails, then you should
grab a binary distribution of the ldm-mcidas decoders for your system.
The quickest way to do this is using anonymous FTP:
machine: ftp.unidata.ucar.edu
user: anonymous
pass: address@hidden
directory: pub/binary/linux_2.4-i686 <- if your Linux machine is running
the 2.4 kernel
pub/binary/linux_2.6-i686 <- if your linux machine is running
the 2.6 kernel
file: ldm-mcidas-2004.tar.Z
You determine which kernel your system is using by running:
uname -a
I suggest that you unpack this as follows in your ldm account:
<as 'ldm'>
cd ~ldm
mkdir ldm-mcidas
mv ldm-mcidas-2004.tar.Z ldm-mcidas
tar xvzf ldm-mcidas-2004.tar.Z
rm ldm-mcidas-2004.tar.Z
ln -s ldm-mcidas-2004 runtime
ln -s runtime/* .
cd bin
file ./pnga2area
If this looks correct, then run:
cp pnga2area ~/decoders
>Thank you and have a nice holiday weekend.
Thanks, you too.
Cheers,
Tom
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