Unbelievable - I found it:
https://www.unidata.ucar.edu/support/help/MailArchives/idd/msg01777.html
2000 - not late '90's. And it was Pete, not Mike, that wrote it.
Stonie
On May 21, 2016 9:37:57 PM CDT, Stonie Cooper <stonewall@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Art - Mike Dross had a perl script in the late '90's - I'll see if I
>can find it via Google.
>
>Stonie
>
>On May 21, 2016 9:28:31 PM CDT, Gerry Creager - NOAA Affiliate
><gerry.creager@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>It's libs, so compress -d should work... If you're using pyART, I
>>believe
>>there's a libz toll in python, but after today's packing session for
>>the
>>great house movezi can't, for the life of me, remember it.
>>
>>Gerry
>>
>>On Friday, May 20, 2016, Arthur A Person <aap1@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks Stonie. So, the error must be related to a failed effort to
>>> decompress
>>> the NOAAPort version of the file... is anyone aware of a standalone
>>> decompressor
>>> that could be used to convert the NOAAPort NIDS compressed version
>>into an
>>> uncompressed version?
>>>
>>> Art
>>>
>>> ------------------------------
>>>
>>> *From: *"Stonie Cooper" <stonewall@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','stonewall@xxxxxxxxxxxxx');>>
>>> *To: *"Arthur A Person" <aap1@xxxxxxx
>>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','aap1@xxxxxxx');>>,
>>> ldm-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','ldm-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx');>
>>> *Sent: *Friday, May 20, 2016 2:54:38 PM
>>> *Subject: *Re: [ldm-users] NOAAPort NIDS versus
>>> ftp://tgftp.nws.noaa.gov/SL.us008001/DF.of/DC.radar/ files
>>>
>>> The data on NOAAPort is compressed frame by frame via libz; once you
>>> uncompress, the data is identical.
>>>
>>> Stonie
>>>
>>> On May 20, 2016 1:46:08 PM CDT, Arthur A Person <aap1@xxxxxxx
>>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','aap1@xxxxxxx');>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi...
>>>>
>>>> Anyone know if the NOAAPort NIDS files are the same data as reside
>>in
>>>> ftp://tgftp.nws.noaa.gov/SL.us008001/DF.of/DC.radar/?
>>>> We are able to read the tgftp data using pyART but when we try
>>reading
>>>> the same NOAAPort NIDS data (e.g. differential reflectivity N0X),
>>>> we get an error "NotImplementedError: Level3 product with code 3338
>>is
>>>> not supported". Any ideas on what this error might mean?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks... Art
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Arthur A. Person
>>>> Research Assistant, System Administrator
>>>> Penn State Department of Meteorology
>>>> email: aap1@xxxxxxx
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>>
>>
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