4 Other Tools

• Other Tools: Other utilities included in the distribution.
• Developers interface: Utilities for MetCal and SPA developers.
• Plotfst: PlotFST plotting utility for RPN Standard files.
• Splitfst: SplitFST RPN Standard file formatting utility.
• Fst2sig: fst2sig RPN Standard file conversion utility.
• trackinfo: A storm track management module.

Several other tools are included with this distribution. Some of them relate exclusively to the RPN data file format, for which there is relatively little open-source software available. However, the Developer's Interface is central to the archive itself. Most of the tools distributed with version 1.7.1 of the SPA are described in the following sections.