Geo::BUFR ========= Library for handling of WMO (World Meteorological Organization) BUFR files. INSTALLATION To install this module type the following: perl Makefile.PL make make test make install This will install the module in the standard locations. You will most probably require root privileges to install in standard system directories. To install in a non-standard directory like /home/cpan, specify a prefix during the 'perl Makefile.PL' stage: perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=/home/cpan After installing, in order for Perl to find the module when executing programs, you are adviced to modify the environment variable $PERL5LIB, e.g. export PERL5LIB=/home/cpan/lib/perl/5.8.4:$PERL5LIB (or the corresponding command for your operating system and Perl version). You will need a C compiler which supports variable length arrays. This is standard on Unix-like systems. On Windows I recommend using Strawberry Perl, in which case you should type 'dmake' instead of 'make' when installing. DEPENDENCIES This module requires these other modules, all of which are expected to be part of a standard Perl distribution: Carp, Config, DynaLoader, FileHandle, File::Spec::Functions, Getopt::Long, Pod::Usage, Scalar::Util, Storable, Test::More, Time::Local DESCRIPTION BUFR = Binary Universal Form for the Representation of meteorological data. BUFR is becoming the standard exchange format for meteorological observations. This module provides methods for decoding and encoding BUFR messages, and for displaying information in BUFR B and D tables and in BUFR flag and code tables. The core routines for encoding and decoding bitstreams are implemented in C. This module also installs some example programs: bufrread.pl, bufrresolve.pl, bufrencode.pl, bufr_reencode.pl and bufralter.pl. See https://wiki.met.no/bufr.pm/start for examples of use. COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. Copyright (C) 2010 met.no