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>From: Jim Heimbach <address@hidden> >Organization: UNCA >Keywords: 199908131905.NAA19778 Jim, > I'm back from my summer life and am trying to get >things straightened up McIDAS-wise. Last week we >installed SOLARIS 7 on our server (ULTRA-2), and that pretty >much finished what McIDAS we still had running. So I am >pondering how I will revamp things. > I was intrigued with your mentioning that UNIDATA is >putting together a JAVA system which would access >the text and graphics that McIDAS does. Is this a >possibility in the future? The future, yes. Now, no. > If not, I assume I should have the following >installed: > > ldm presently running pretty well. Am using > 5.0.5. This is also picking up DD+ > for our locally-developed textual data > system The current release of the LDM is now 5.0.8. > McIDAS Presently have 7.1 installed, but ... The current release of McIDAS-X is now 7.60 (official release on August 10). > ldm-mcidas Presently have 7.1.7 installed. It > is trying to do its thing on SOLARIS > 7, but am getting the broken pipe thing. The current release of ldm-mcidas is 7.6.0 (August 10). > McIDAS-XCD Haven't messed with this yet. XCD is part of McIDAS-X. > Anything else I should start reading up on? I would strongly consider upgrading to McIDAS-X, -XCD 7.60, ldm-mcidas to 7.6.0, and your LDM to 5.0.8 (binaries are available for ldm-mcidas and the LDM). The Y2K changes in McIDAS-X,-XCD are used by the current release of ldm-mcidas, so an upgrade of those goes hand-in-hand. Tom