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>From: Robert Mullenax <address@hidden> >Organization: NMSU/NSBF >Keywords: 199903242347.QAA06525 McIDAS DSSERVE.BAT Robert, >I really like the new ualist command.! How about the UAPLOT command for Skewt-Ts, Stuves, Log-linear, etc.? >I have one more McIDAS question. Out of ignorance I have running >LSSERVE.BAT while setting up my ordinary users (weather) in order to >see all of the ADDE groups, not just MYDATA. There is no problem in doing this. The only overhead that it incurs is the need to setup REDIRECTions for AREAs, GRIDS, MDXXs, and TEXT files for each user (this is done in EXAMPLE.NAM anyway, so it is not a big deal). If the average user always goes through the remote ADDE server, then s/he really doesn't need to know the mapping between AREA numbers and RTIMAGES/.... dataset names. >I have discovered while >installing 7.5, that this is not suggested in the setup for ordinary >users. My thinking was that for average users it would be easier to always go through the remote ADDE server and not worry about this sort of thing. If the users are more adept, then knowledge of the sort of information in DSSERVE.BAT (the distribution copy of LSSERVE.BAT) might be useful. >What danger would there be in doing this? None that I can think of off of the top of my head. >I would like the >ordinary user to be able to see the list, but not if there is a >potential for a problem by running LSSERVE .BAT again. I wouldn't worry about any danger. I would think about not forcing your users to run LSSERVE.BAT, however. You can give them access to this information in a different manner: o add a REDIRECTion for RESOLV.SRV (the file that is created when you run DSSERVE ADD) for the user 'mcidas' (and, by virtue of its sharing the same home directory, for 'mcadde') that points to the /home/mcidas/data directory. o move RESOLV.SRV from /home/mcidas/workdata to /home/mcidas/data All users will then be able to see the file by virtue of their having /home/mcidas/data in their MCPATH. >Thanks, Later... Tom >From address@hidden Thu Mar 25 07:00:54 1999 I do like the UAPLOT command also, especially the fact that you can go to the top of the run, not just to 100mb. I would like to see RAOBPLOT be able to plot data above 100mb as well, and I don't believe that I can do any contouring of upper-air data above 100mb as well. Thanks for your help. I will be building 7.5 on our Intel machine today. Robert Mullenax