id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc
678	ropp2bufr_eccodes should tell users how to wrap BUFR messages in GTS headers	Ian Culverwell	warrick	"ROPP-10.0 beta reviewer Stig Syndergaard says
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Do ropp2bufr_eccodes not generate headers with the -g option? It seems so when I look in
ropp2bufr_eccodes.f90, but the release notes says something different, and I know you warned us about
this, and provided the workaround with the perl script. But could ropp2bufr_eccodes generate the header
to be output in ascii? and the user can then use the perl script with that info? I would probably
understand this better if I had been able to try it out
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ropp2bufr_eccodes does not generate ARH headers for BUFR files (because it cannot).  But the --help option suggests otherwise, so we should fix that.  

Stig makes a fair point about the input to the perl script.  I think it would be a good idea if using
the {{{-g}}} option generated a message something like ""The ecCodes library does not allow Abbreviated
Routing Headers to be wrapped around BUFR messages.  To do this, the user should execute
{{{gtsheaders_bufr.pl infile outfile T1T2A1A2[ii] CCCC [YYGGgg]}}}"", where T1T2A1A2[ii] etc are filled
in with the appropriate entries for the particular profile being processed.  We should be able to access this data, because when {{{ropp2bufr}}} is built on the old '''ecBUFR''' or '''moBUFR''' libraries, it can add these headers automatically.  There will be a problem if it depends on some element of these libraries to calculate these data.
 

"	task	closed	normal	11.0	ropp_io	9.0	fixed		Ian Culverwell