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Hi Gustavo, Michael built the latest GEMPAK release, v6.2.0, on your system on Friday. I just changed the NAWIPS link in /home/gempak to point at the new installation. The processing you are doing out of the 'ldm' account should now work correctly for the East image sectors in the UNIWISC datastream. Please let us know if the new distribution is meeting your needs. re: my comment on us not providing GEMPAK binaries anymore > Does it means GEMPAK is going to be obsolete??? This has to do with our > previous email about migrating or not to Mcidas…. I would appreciate > your point of view. We stopped creating binaries for GEMPAK after Steve Chiswell (Chiz) left Unidata. The two of us who picked-up support for GEMPAK when Chiz left noticed that a very large fraction of the GEMPAK support inquiries were a result of people using a binary distribution on a system that did not match well with the system on which the binary was created. We made the decision at that point to have users build the GEMPAK distribution from source on their own machines. This move has caused some discomfort in the Unidata GEMPAK community, but folks are finding it easier and easier as our documentation for doing the build from source has improved and those users have become familiar with doing builds from source. You should know that the great majority of other software that we offer also must be built from source code; this includes the LDM and McIDAS. As for GEMPAK eventually becoming obsolete: the answer is yes, GEMPAK will at some point become obsolete, but this will not happen for some time. The U.S. National Weather Service has contracted for the development of an analysis system that is designed to replace both AWIPS (used in U.S. Weather Service forecast offices) and NAWIPS (NAWIPS is the official name for the GEMPAK distribution we make available). The contractor doing the development is well along towards creating this new package; our Weather Service expects that it will begin replacing AWIPS/NAWIPS sometime next year (2011). Unidata's position is that we will support GEMPAK for 18 months after the Weather Service has replaced its use with the new package. Please be aware that this does _not_ mean that GEMPAK will become unuseful after the transition. There are lots of long-time users of GEMPAK in the U.S. and elsewhere that are determined that GEMPAK will continue to be viable into the future. So, you should not be too concerned that GEMPAK is going away, but you should be aware that changes will be occurring. Cheers, Tom -- **************************************************************************** Unidata User Support UCAR Unidata Program (303) 497-8642 P.O. Box 3000 address@hidden Boulder, CO 80307 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unidata HomePage http://www.unidata.ucar.edu **************************************************************************** Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: WUE-272422 Department: Support McIDAS Priority: Normal Status: Closed