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>From: Anthony James Wimmers <address@hidden> >Organization: UVa >Keywords: 200002031919.MAA03293 McIDAS-X ADDE Y2K UP Tony, >What has UP been ADDEized too? There is an ADDE replacement for UP; it is RAOBPLOT. The ADDE replacement for UC is RAOBCON. >I want to plot upper-air station locations: > >UP IDN SFC NA 0 > >but I get the error > >--MDX-- NON-EXISTENT MD FILE # 30 > >MDX: Program called abort This is a Y2K thingy. You need to specify the correct form of DAY for UP to work. Try: UP IDN SFC NA DAY=2000034 >(The current MD file is not #30, it's #25). If I knew the ADDE version, >then I could figure out the rest on my own. Check out RAOBPLOT and RAOBCON. For what you are trying to do, they work just fine. What is missing from the current crop of ADDE Point Source plot/contour routines is the ability to do math. This means, for instance, that a command like: UC VOR 500 USA 12 DAY=2000034 Does NOT have an equivalent in ADDEland (yet). >Thanks, Tom