20000301: McIDAS compressed data transfer problem on IRIX

>From: "Batson, Bryan" <address@hidden>
>Organization: JSFC
>Keywords: 200003011647.JAA20595 McIDAS ADDE MCCOMPRESS

Bryan and Anthony,

>Anthony is having difficulties accessing our ADDE server using compression.
>Is this that problem of the compress/uncompress software being in the wrong
>place on SGIs?  I have no problems when contacting our server from an HP-UX
>client.

Seems to me that if the problem was one of Anthony's machine not being
able to find uncompress then his compressed transfers should fail when
talking to any/all servers.  To test this, I suggest that Anthony try a
simple test to our GINI ADDE server:

setenv MCCOMPRESS             (or appropriate ksh or sh syntax)
<start McIDAS-X session>
DATALOC ADD RTGINI ADDE.UNIDATA.UCAR.EDU
DSINFO IMAGE RTGINI
IMGLIST RTGINI/GE1KVIS.ALL
IMGDISP RTGINI/GE1KVIS 1 STA=KHSV EU=IMAGE SF=YES REFRESH='EG;MAP X 5 
COUNTY=ALL ST=AL;MAP H 1 WID=2'

If the problem is on Anthony's IRIX machine, then he should see multiple
failures from the actions above.

Tom