-v1.40 (Released 10/10/2008)
+v1.41 (Released 6/22/2011)
This is the README file for the Radar Software Library (RSL).
The author of RSL is John H. Merritt.
+RSL is maintained by Bart Kelley <Bartie.L.Kelley@nasa.gov>.
+
What is RSL?
This software manipulates NexRad, Lassen, UF, sigmet, kwajalein,
toga, RAPIC, RADTEC, mcgill and EDGE radar formats.
System Requirements:
- HP (755/hpux), Linux, SUN (SparcII), SGI(4D/IRIX). Should run on any
-other hardware.
+ Linux, Mac OS X 10.5.
+
+ Note: MS Windows is not supported.
Memory Requirements:
16 Mbytes of RAM just to ingest the data. Plus any for your application.
1. Unpack the GNU compressed tar archive, example:
- gtar -xzf rsl-v1.29.tgz
+ tar -xzf rsl-v1.29.tgz
-or-
- gzcat rsl-v1.29.tgz | tar xf -
+ zcat rsl-v1.29.tgz | tar xf -
2. If you DON'T want LASSEN capability or you find that your system
can not compile the lassen routines, you must edit acconfig.h and
configure to look in the prefix/lib directory for those libraries.
The examples installed are any_to_gif and any_to_uf.
-APPLYING PATCHES
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-
-Using patch files saves network transmission times when upgrading
-to the next version of RSL. Patch files are context differences
-from one RSL release to the next. The patch files are located
-in the anonymous ftp directory pub/software on trmm.gsfc.nasa.gov,
-and they typically have the name of the form rsl.v1.14_to_v1.15.patch.gz.
-
-You will be applying the patch files from the directory where 'rsl' is
-a subdirectory (from the parent directory of rsl).
-
-Follow these steps to upgrade using patch files. This demonstrates applying
-patches from version 1.11 to 1.15.
-
-1. Make a symbolic link called 'rsl' that points to the current version
- of RSL you have. For example:
-
- ln -s rsl-v1.11 rsl
-
-2. Apply patches. Here we'll go from v1.11 to v1.15.
-
- zcat rsl.v1.11_to_v1.12.patch.gz | patch
- zcat rsl.v1.12_to_v1.13.patch.gz | patch
- zcat rsl.v1.13_to_v1.14.patch.gz | patch
- zcat rsl.v1.14_to_v1.15.patch.gz | patch
-
-3. Rename the rsl-v1.11 directory to be rsl-v1.15. You no longer
- need the 'rsl' directory.
-
- mv rsl-v1.11 rsl-v1.15
- rm rsl
-
BUILDING APPLICATIONS
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