RIP Tutorial : Where to Start?

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

   gunzip RIP.TAR.gz
   tar -xvf RIP.TAR

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

   cd RIP

and you should see the following files and subdirectories listed:

   ls -l

-rwxr-xr-x 1 mesouser users   11919 Mar  3 2003 CHANGES*
drwxr-xr-x 2 mesouser users     512 Mar 13 2003 Diff/
drwxr-xr-x 2 mesouser users     512 Mar 13 2003 Doc/
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mesouser users    7532 Dec 22 2002 Makefile*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mesouser users    2965 Feb 28 2003 README*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mesouser users    2531 Nov 14 2002 color.tbl*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mesouser users  347079 Oct 31 2000 psadilookup.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mesouser users    2868 Jan 28 2002 rip_sample.in*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mesouser users      99 Oct 31 2000 ripdp_sample.in*
drwxr-xr-x 2 mesouser users    3072 Mar 13 2003 src/
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mesouser users 1123389 Mar 13 2003 stationlist*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mesouser users      96 Oct 31 2000 tabdiag_sample.in*
-rw-r--r-- 1 mesouser users      45 Jan  3 2003 tserstn.dat

Read the README file in the directory.

Now you are ready to compile RIP.