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I fully support the notion to create a dedicated section in the forum for posting scripts only. This will eliminate the frustrating trial and error exercise I believe everybody is experiencing.
Since DAWS offers the option of utilizing the powerful script feature, then why not taking full advantage ...

The other day I had my GPS connected to my laptop, but I did not see my position on the map in DAWS, although I had started the GPS from the menu and all the settings were the same as with my other GPS supported programs.
Wonder whether I did something wrong. DAWS was the only running program at ...

Thanks Pat, your sample script is really great. I never thought of archiving in this manner. BTW I have run your script and DAWS apparently did not find any inconsistencies with meta and buoy data or otherwise did not behave differently.

What puzzles me a bit are the different file extensions in ...

By playing around with my fronts script, I finally discovered what went wrong.

I was working with a map of the NW Pacific and got these strange lines as mentioned in my earlier posting. By switching to a map of the USA and then running my fronts script I got perfectly drawn fronts without any other ...

Wish List:

1. Hurricane tracking and wave/swell included in script

2. appropriate pictogram for storm/hurricanes

3. accurate front plotting by means of script

4. Label LAT/LONG lines on map

5. enable multiple map layers in order to browse amongst various map displays

Rgds
Klaus

Thanks again Bob.

Wrt fronts I have tried the following script:

download, http://www.hamweather.net/weather/asus01/asus01.txt,c:\DigAtm\frt.dat
ingest,c:\DigAtm\frt.dat
PRODUCT,WXP,0,FRT

Now something funny did occur when running the script:
1. when including the line "ingest ... etc." - there ...

Thanks, Bob, it worked. Can't tell you how much I appreciate your help. Was sitting here for 8 hours straight to solve the mystery. Thanks heaven for forums.

Now to a more general note:

By browsing through various forum topics I found out that
1. my appetite for exploiting the full potential of ...

My very thanks to Weasel and Texsky for their invaluable help and suggestion. I got my script running perfectly with all the xtras included by myself. However, whenever running my script (and even the sample script from Weasel) the script halts during execution and the following information message ...

I am using DAWS 1.1 with patch 1.1c. Although quite computer savvy, I am having trouble with writing a script to automize retrieving data from the internet and then to run an analyses/data.

I am trying to achieve the following:

1. Download data from one of the ready available sites in the program ...