Seems like the NWS needs to fix this. Has anyone emailed them?
Mike
Pete Pokrandt
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Thanks to Dan V for this info. The ucnids.c program I'm using
to uncompress the data suffers from this same problem.
Pete
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> For those of you who don't know. NWS subtly changed the NIDS zlib
> compression today. WXP used a 789C sequence to determine whether the
> data are compressed or not. As of this morning, this changed to 78DA.
> So WXP now doesn't realize the NIDS data is compressed and thus is not
> decoding the data properly. I'm working on a fix which should be out
> shortly.
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