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>From: Anthony James Wimmers <address@hidden> >Organization: UVa >Keywords: 200002031536.IAA25399 users Tony, >Jennie put me in charge of getting two of her undergraduates set up with >new Mcidas accounts. She gave me a heads-up on this in an email yresteday. >I gave them accounts on windfall with the home >directories /home/sm8f and /home/jla3c. I understand that starting a new >Mcidas account on windfall is different from what the manual indicates - No, not really. The information about what is needed for user accounts is fully contained in the online McIDAS-X documentation that we maintain under: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/mcidas/mcx. >just different enough to get one in trouble. So.....I see two options for >us. Either I could set up their accounts as you walk me through it on the >phone, or I can give you the new root password for windfall over the >phone and you can set them up yourself. Whichever would be the best for >you. Either is fine by me. I leave the option open to you. >One other thing. Did you get my message about RUC-2 decoding? Yes, I havn't had time to look into this yet; sorry. >Steve said >he'd forward it to you, and it's been almost two weeks since I wrote. Just >checking. I just checked. We received your eamil on January 28. It is now February 3, so this makes it _one_ week not two. I realize that when you are in need that time seems to dilate :-). >You're the best, Smoke up the you know what ;-). Hey, I never got to contradulate you on the award for your poster session at the AMS conference in Long Beach; contradulations! I will be here for the rest of the afternoon (modulo bathroom breaks, of course), so anytime today would work fine. Tom >From address@hidden Thu Feb 3 13:32:56 2000 Tom, re: user information in online documentation >You're totally right. I got them set up in 20 minutes. Not that you're off >the hook... re: only one week not two >Bust-ed. It really did seem like 2 weeks. I did send him another email >about three days before that (or maybe 1 1/2 days). Anyway, now that the >TOPSE flights have started, it would be really good to have this info. re: congradulations >Done and done. You know, I may have won big at the AMS, but we had a >poster contest in the department one week later, and Owen put me in my >place :{ . >Thanks for the help! Tony