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Re: IDL code to read MSU and HIRS in Level1b [message #40627 is a reply to message #40572]

Fri, 20 August 2004 08:31

Yamout
Messages: 8
Registered: August 2004

Junior Member

Dear David,

thank you for your reply. It doesn't matter at all. What I have found
beyond the worst is the robot in SAA, which compiles the "Help Desk"
mails. What a World would be then, if a help seeker only met robots.
I hope one day one time i could get the human one.
Goo luck for you also :-)
Hossein
~~~~

David Fanning wrote:
> Dear Yamout,
>
> You write:
>
>
>> After many
>> weeks of errors, I discovered that those data are in a "little bit"
>> different format. But the problem now is that the differences are not
>> the same as the notes from the automatic help mail from SAA.
>
>
> I am sorry if I have seemed to belittle your experience.
> That was not my intention. Rather, I wanted to commiserate
> with it. The weeks and weeks of frustration you have
> experienced with satellite data is, in my experience,
> par for the course. I've never known it to be anything
> BUT frustrating. You can count on the directions being wrong.
>
> I assure you there is someone, somewhere who has read
> this data. It is your job to find him. He almost certainly
> does NOT work on the help desk. Probably he is a low-level
> flunky working for somebody on the committee who designed
> this godawful data format. He probably *used* to be somebody,
> but had an innovative idea once and got moved to the closet
> office next to the boiler room for his pains. His name will
> be the fourth or fifth on the list you get from the cousin
> of the guy on the help desk of people that "might be able
> to help, but probably not".
>
> He probably wrote the program that reads the data in some
> obscure language (you hope fervently wasn't COBOL), but
> even that will help you. What you need is a simple file, a
> program that reads the file, and a list of what the data looks
> like. Then you start randomly poking around until things
> start to make sense to you. It usually takes a while.
>
> In the words of Barry Lopez, in my favorite story "Directions",
> from his _Desert Notes_ book, it will be like this:
>
> "You will need three of four days to follow it out. The
> last part will be on foot. Prepare for this. Prepare for
> the impact of nothing. Get on a regimen of tea and biscuits
> and dried fruit. On the third or fourth day, when you are
> ready to quit, you will know you are on your way. When
> your throat is so thick with dust that you cannot breathe
> you will be almost halfway there. When the soles of your
> feet go numb with the burning and you cannot walk you will
> know you have made no wrong turns. When you can no longer
> laugh at all it is only a little further. Push on.
>
> "It will not be as easy as it sounds. ... [But] you will
> always know this: others have made it. The man you gave
> you the map has been here."
>
> Good luck! :-)
>
> Cheers,
>
> David
>

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		IDL code to read MSU and HIRS in Level1b By: Yamout on Wed, 18 August 2004 09:41
		Re: IDL code to read MSU and HIRS in Level1b By: Mark Hadfield on Sun, 22 August 2004 15:00
		Re: IDL code to read MSU and HIRS in Level1b By: Yamout on Fri, 20 August 2004 10:24
		Re: IDL code to read MSU and HIRS in Level1b By: David Fanning on Fri, 20 August 2004 09:58
		Re: IDL code to read MSU and HIRS in Level1b By: R.G. Stockwell on Fri, 20 August 2004 09:50
		Re: IDL code to read MSU and HIRS in Level1b By: David Fanning on Fri, 20 August 2004 09:33
		Re: IDL code to read MSU and HIRS in Level1b By: R.G. Stockwell on Fri, 20 August 2004 09:25
		Re: IDL code to read MSU and HIRS in Level1b By: Yamout on Fri, 20 August 2004 08:31
		Re: IDL code to read MSU and HIRS in Level1b By: David Fanning on Fri, 20 August 2004 08:17
		Re: IDL code to read MSU and HIRS in Level1b By: David Fanning on Fri, 20 August 2004 08:17
		Re: IDL code to read MSU and HIRS in Level1b By: Yamout on Fri, 20 August 2004 07:44

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