National Weather Service Professional Development Series Professional Competency Unit

Description of Job Duty Competency to be Achieved

Develop basic Unix skills for the purpose of developing local applications.

Description of Need

Unix is the basic operating system for AWIPS. Therefore, developers must apply Unix skills effectively to develop, install, and maintain local applications.

Specific Job Task Skills and Knowledge

1. Ability to work within the UNIX Operating System environment utilizing basic UNIX commands.

2. Ability to edit program and other text files using a file editor such as vi or dtpad

3. Familiarity with the HP-UX GUI environment - CDE.

4. Understanding of networking fundamentals and ability to use networking tools.

Instructional Components

Instructional Component 5.1: Basic UNIX O/S Skills: AWIPS Lending Library and/or Obtained from commercial sources

Instructional Component 5.2: Editing Files: Basic skills with a text editor obtained from commercial sources.

Instructional Component 5.3: CDE: Use of the CDE GUI environment obtained from commercial sources.

Instructional Component 5.4: Networking Fundamentals (ftp, telnet, rcp, rlogin, etc.): WBT - DataComms/Networking and/or NWSTC Lending Library and/or Obtained from commercial sources.

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