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Tony- It looks like things are working (mostly) on wxbox this morning. I made a couple of other minor changes: 1) I edited the file /usr/local/gempak/NAWIPS-5.4/resource/Nsharp so the paths for the data would be /var/data/ldm/gempak instead of /shemp/gempak. Take a look at N-SHARP which is an interactive SkewT program. That should make you forget any problems you've had with the installation for a while. ;-) 2) I edited the file $GARPHOME/config/Garp_defaults and changed: modelkeys : "thin.gem,avn_grid003,eta_grid211,eta_grid212,mrf_grid003,mrf_grid002,ngm_grid211,ruc_grid211,maps2,ens_grid,gdas_grid,ecmf1" to: modelkeys : "thin.gem,avn_grid003,eta_grid211,eta_grid212,mrf.gem,mrf_grid002,ngm_grid211,ruc_grid211,maps2,ens_grid,gdas_grid,ecmf1" so you would be able to see the mrf grids. 3) In McIDAS, I released the ROUTE.SYS entries for the GOES-East/West composites and the TOPO composites by running: cd /usr/local/mcidas/workdata route.k REL C route.k REL N If you want to suspend the creation of any of these products, you can run start a McIDAS session as the user mcidas and selectively SUSpend products with the ROUTE command (or you can run it outside mcidas as route.k as above). I found a problem with the QRTMDG command on your system (basically it doesn't work), so I'm using DOQTL in mcscour.sh to scour off the old MD files. Tom will take a look at this. Also, there are no upperair files, FOUS14, Ship/buoy, synoptic or PIREP MD files being created. I'll have Tom look into this also. It doesn't look like the display has been reset yet. I can walk you through it over the phone if you want. Let me know. Don