Re: GTE DUATS and weather graphics/etc.

["D.F.S." <dfs@xmission.com>]

> 
> Oh, definately. For processing the data files that the NFDC provides, it
> definately makes sense to do it in perl. I figured that we'd be processing
> those data files from the standard format into a format that was more usable
> to the individual applications and splitting it out into multiple files for
> efficiency/etc. 
> 
> Once it's in a more useful form, then it makes sense to access it via
> C/Tcl/Python/Perl, but for the translation effort, perl wins hands down.

> Ideally, I'd like to see the data files get processed from the raw form into
> a Berkeley DB format database, or something along those lines. 

I'm an Oracle Database Admin / Database engr. so They are ALL very sparse
as the the features I'm used to, but I'd like to find a simple but free 
database library or toolkit better than the old DB stuff.

In any event once we get the data cleaned up and in a decent format, 
importing it into anything from excel to access to Oracle would be a
no-brainer.

Processing the Data files was just an example, processing this kind of 
files has a lot in common with say logging on to the DUATS system
and making requests and parsing the info being returned.

Marc


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