INTERPF Tutorial : Where to Start?

First, go to your working directory (MM5V3) and download the INTERPF program tar file from NCAR's ftp site. Once you have it on your machine, type the following to unzip and untar it:

   gunzip INTERPF.TAR.gz
   tar -xvf INTERPF.TAR

After this, you should see a program directory INTERPF/ created in your working directory. cd to this directory:

   cd INTERPF

and you should see the following files and subdirectories listed:

   ls -l

-rwxr-xr-x 1 mesouser users   6055 Dec 20 13:29 CHANGES*
drwxr-xr-x 2 mesouser users   8192 Dec 23 12:31 Diff/
drwxr-xr-x 2 mesouser users   8192 Dec 23 12:31 Doc/
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mesouser users  10535 Dec 20 12:44 Makefile*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mesouser users   4336 Dec 20 13:14 README*
-rw-r--r-- 1 mesouser users    418 Jun  7  2000 configure.rules
-rw-r--r-- 1 mesouser users   7315 Sep 27  2001 interpf.deck.cray
-rw-r--r-- 1 mesouser users     90 Jun  7  2000 macros_interpf
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mesouser users   2109 Jan  7  2003 namelist.input*
-rw-r--r-- 1 mesouser users    782 Jan  7  2003 namelist.input.SOC
drwxr-xr-x 2 mesouser users   8192 Dec 23 12:31 src/

Read the README file in the directory.

INTERPF only requires input data from either REGRID or LITTLE_R/RAWINS. So by now you have all the data needed to run this program, and you are ready to compile and run the INTERPF.