Re: Neilley's weather program on linux reading *nix gdbm files

• To: "Neil R. Smith" <neils@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Subject: Re: Neilley's weather program on linux reading *nix gdbm files
• From: Robb Kambic <rkambic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 10:36:06 -0700 (MST)

On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Neil R. Smith wrote:

> Anyone experiencing difficulties with P.Neilley's weather program
> built on linux (say, Red Hat) reading gdbm metar files generated by
> ldm DBFILE action (pqsurf) on another platform/architecture?

Hiya Neil,

One of the most common problems with gdbm is using the wrong version. The
version needs to be 1.7.3 not 1.8  For more detailed info on LDM  using
gdbm go to : http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/glimpsedocs/ghdecoders.html and
enter gdbm for the search.

Robb...
>
> Should endian-ness be an issue? Peter's comments in the source code
> file README.linux (ver 4.10) suggests that it shouldn't be an issue.
>
> -Neil
> --
> Neil R. Smith, Comp. Sys. Mngr.               neils@xxxxxxxx
> Dept. Atmospheric Sci., Texas A&M Univ.       979/845-6272 FAX:979/862-4466
>

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Robb Kambic                                Unidata Program Center
Software Engineer III                      Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research
rkambic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx                   WWW: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/
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