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>From: Mel Taylor <address@hidden> >Organization: Central Michigan >Keywords: 199902191448.HAA08416 McIDAS-X Solaris x86 Mel, re: try remaking mdx.k >Remaking mdx did not change the results, it produced the same error results >as the earlier email. I started playing around with STRTABLE (as you >suggested this as the next likely culprit). I could not get any further. OK. We chatted about what could be wrong on your system and came up empty handed. Would it be possible to get a login as your 'mcidas' user so I could poke around (need machine name, and password)? >I did the following: > >1. copied STRTABLE from my working SPARC machine into the users mcidas/data >directory. OK. STRTABLE is binary, but the mods we made back in version 7.1 should make it usable on the little-endian x86 platform. >2. deleted the STRTABLE from the mcidas/data directory (of course I got the >string not found message, so this produced the results expected). There should be no copy of STRTABLE in ~mcidas/data. This file should only be found in: o user's McIDAS working directory o in the temporary directory under ~<user>/.mctmp created for each session A copy of STRTABLE in the ~mcidas/data directory would be _bad_ since files in that directory are meant to be shared among all users. >Well I'm off for the weekend. I'll be getting back at it on Monday. Have a >good weekend. The fastest way to the bottom of your dilemma would be to give us a login to the 'mcidas' account. That way we can see if anything in your installation went amiss, correct and test it, and then get back to you with what happened. >-- >Mel Taylor (address@hidden) >College of Science & Technology >Central Michigan University Tom Yoksas