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>From: Myron Kowalski <address@hidden> >Organization: Moravian College >Keywords: 199910262043.OAA26544 McIDAS Fkey Myron, >I think I learned enough at this summer's seminar to be dangerous. Before >I screw something up, I'll ask you. This is what I get for the "Model >Ouput" in the Fkey menu for F3 > >String not found: ?MODEL1 >String not found: ?MODEL1 This is telling me that a current copy of UNIMENU.DEF has not been used to update McIDAS string table values which, in turn, are used by the Fkey menu. Also, Since the original release of McIDAS-X 7.60, I have made several updates (called Addenda) at least one of which deals with the Unidata Fkey menu. For additional information on McIDAS Addenda, you should refer to: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/mcidas/mcx/addenda.html >I guess this is looking for the gridded NCEP model output, which is >according to the UNIMENU.DEF looking at ?MODEL1 "RTGRIDS/NGM-UW Right. The problem with this is that the NGM-UW and MRF-UW products that used to be in the Unidata-Wisconsin datastream were removed on July 1. >which I think I should see since I get this when I run DSINFO > >DSINFO GRID RTGRIDS > > Dataset Names of Type: GRID in Group: RTGRIDS > >Name NumPos Content >------------ ------ -------------------------------------- >ALL 500 Real-Time Grids >AVN 80 Real-Time AVN Grids >ECMWF 10 Real-Time ECMWF Grids >ETA 40 Real-Time ETA Grids >MDR 10 Real-Time MDR Grids >MISC 10 Other Real-Time Grids >MRF 100 Real-Time MRF Grids >MRF-UW 2 MRF Grids in UW stream >NGM 40 Real-Time NGM Grids >NGM-UW 2 NGM Grids in UW stream > >Am I on the right track? Yes, you are on the right track. >I'm only seeing one GRID file in /app/data/mcidas. As I recall, we never setup XCD GRID decoding on your machine. At the time you were here for the workshop, there was a question of disk space on catwoman. Do you have enough disk space to start decoding the model data that is available through IDD (i.e. do you have at least 1 GB of free disk available)? If so, we should turn on the request for model data in your LDM setup (in ldmd.conf); setup sending of the model data received to the McIDAS-XCD spool for for decoding (in pqact.conf); and turn on the GRID decoding in McIDAS (this is done by: <logging in as 'mcidas'> cd workdata decinfo.k SET DMGRID A >If you can take a look, I'd appreciate it. I will lend a hand if you have the disk resources necessary to proceed. Also, we better get to this quickly since I will be leaving for Australia for three weeks on Thursday evening. Please let me know if you are ready and able to proceed. Tom -- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ * Tom Yoksas UCAR Unidata Program * * (303) 497-8642 (last resort) P.O. Box 3000 * * address@hidden Boulder, CO 80307 * * Unidata WWW Service http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/* +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+