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>From: "Jennie L. Moody" <address@hidden> >Organization: University of Virginia >Keywords: 199911182049.NAA16853 Jennie, >Okay, we have just penetrated to the core of what I don't get. >I don't get mcadde. I have to go off and read the right >info. I printed up all the stuff on LOCDATA.BAT and LSSERVE.BAT >(during the seminar :-( , but this doesn't help. > >I think mcadde is screwed up....it is linked to /home/mcidas/mcidas >(I thought this was a directory I created erroneously in the >runtime setup...it has one subdirectory /data, and the >.mcenv is pointing to this directory for McTABLE READ and >McTABLE WRITE, but they are not there. > >I need to go off and figure this out by reading. I logged onto windfall before leaving this evening (as mccode) and took a quick look at ~mcidas/.mcenv. What I saw was that MCDATA is defined as /home/mcidas/workdata. I believe that what you are attempting to do is copy the setup that I use here at Unidata. This means that you should be pointing MCDATA at a directory whose contents do not change from distribution to distribution. To me this means that MCDATA should be defined to be /home/mcidas/uvaworkdata, not /home/mcidas/workdata since /home/mcidas/workdata is a pointer to a directory that is getting changed when you cut over from one distribution to the next. If I had had (our could find) the login as 'mcidas', I would have changed this and verified whether or not the ADDE remote server would work or not. re: redefining the setup for the ADDE remote server when doing cutovers >Well, since we have defined new things (new aliases etc that our batches >run off of, it seems that its not trivial to do this everytime, seems >I could clobber some existing definitions if not careful. I don't think that you will have to redefine the setup for the ADDE remote server every time you do an installation. re: setting up things with LOCDATA.BAT and LSSERVE.BAT >Well...Kevin Higgins installed this stuff....Kevin doesn't work >for me anymore, and now its my responsibility to learn it and >do it right. OK. I will be looking for the 'mcidas' login some more tonight. If I find it, I will login and change .mcenv and test the ADDE remote server access. By the way, I thought that we got all of this done while we were on the phone before I left for Australia. Am I dreaming or what? Tom