Greetings from Gordon

Hi. I live in Norman, Oklahoma. I work for the University of Oklahoma School of Meteorology. I develop my own software for meteorologists, install and support other software, administer several Unix systems, and participate in field operations where we collect weather data for research. You can reach me here as wuser@.

My Software:

• tkgeomap is a set of extensions to Tcl/Tk that access and manipulate geographic data. Go to tkgeomap.org for more information.
• visky is a tkgeomap based application for planning weather instrument deployments and viewing data. Go to tkgeomap.org/visky for more information.
• alloc-1.0 is a collection of dynamic, multi-dimensional array allocators written in C. It provides code that creates two, three, and four dimensional arrays of floats. With straightforward text editing, the programs could be adapted to store other data types. For details, please see the man pages.
• bufile is a Bourne shell script that makes a backup copy of a local file. The copy is named backup/filename_YYYYMMDDHHMMSS, where the suffix gives the instant the copy was created. Local directory backup is created if necessary. It provides a simple way of tracking a few recent versions of a file. For better tracking, use a full featured version control system like Revision Control System.
• penvelope is an awk script that generates Postscript code for an envelope. Input should be a sender address, followed by a blank line, followed by a recipient address. Output is Postscript code for an U.S. envelope with the given addresses.
• vifonts is a wish script that prints a string of all characters using all the fonts returned by xlsfonts in a scrolling text widget.
• volume is a wish script that controls system audio volume with a slider widget. It is for OpenBSD systems. It sends slider selections to the mixerctl command.
• Here are some notes on creating multidimensional arrays in C.

Other Software:

• groff is a simple document formatting system. With groff, and without much effort, you can format a plain text file or print out a short letter. With reasonable effort, you can produce complex reports and publications. It is readily available, straightforward to use, has reasonable defaults, and produces a good output in several formats. Here are some notes and hints.
• OpenBSD. It rules
  • Main site
  • News
  • OpenBSD101

Weather:

• Oklahoma Mesonet
  • Current map
  • Meteogram for Norman
• wunderground.com
• NCAR RAP Real-Time Weather
• Oklahoma Weather Lab
• SMART Radars

Books that have helped me a lot:

• Samuel P. Harbison and Guy L. Steele. C: A Reference Manual
• Peter Van Der Linden. Expert C Programming

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