19990923: System Transfer

>From: Catarino David Delgado <address@hidden>
>Organization: UW-Whitewater
>Keywords: 199909231722.LAA09285 McIDAS-X installation

David,

>Just for the sake of asking: what is the pheasablility of copying an
>installation of McIDAS-X from one machine to another?  

If the installation directory structure for the user 'mcidas' is
_exactly_ the same on the target machine, and the operating system
revision level is the same, there should be no problem doing this.

If the installation structure for 'mcidas' is different, then the
Tcl/Tk component of the distribution will have to be remade.  This
does not mean that the entire distribution has to be rebuilt.  One
could:

o copy the entire McIDAS installation tree from one machine to the
  other

o cd to ~mcidas/mcidas7.6/tcl/unix
  make distclean
 
o cd to ~mcidas/mcidas7.6/tk/unix
  make distclean
 
o cd ~mcidas/mcidas7.6/src
  rm tclcomp

o make mcx
  make install.mcx

Tom