Neil
Look here: https://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/gempak/man/prog/dcmsfc.html
DCMSFC
DCMSFC decodes raw buoy, ship, C-MAN, and Coast Guard reports from
a real-time data feed, or from a file fed to the program through
standard input, and writes the data to a GEMPAK surface file. The
program is controlled by inputs to the command line.
The inputs are program options and the output file name or template.
For example, for real-time data feeds:
dcmsfc [options] output_file
Currently, the decoder can be run in two different modes. If the -a
option is not used, the decoder will create hourly files of all
marine surface data (ship, C-MAN, fixed and drifting buoys, Coast
Guard). If the option "-a 6" is specified, 6-hour files of ship
data only will be created. For real-time operation, output files
have the form YYYYMMDDHH.ship, and are placed in different
directories depending on whether they are hourly or 6-hour files.
If running the program interactively with standard input, the -c
option must be used. The input file must be also be specified.
For example:
dcmsfc -c YYMMDD/HHNN [other_options] output_file < input_file
A template may be used to specify the output file name. The file
name template uses the date and time of the bulletin or report
to replace the following characters.
YYYY or YY Year with or without the century
MM Month number
DD Day
HH Hour
NN Minute
Point me to the file source and I'll see what I can do with it.
gerry
On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 11:42 AM, Smith, Neil R <n-smith2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Have a txt file of buoy data, 2015030900_boy.txt, downloaded from archive
> sources.
>
> Would like to decode it to .gem format.
>
> How? I don’t have the man pages.
>
> Thanks,
> -Neil
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