20000418: McIDAS-X, -XCD Addendum for ETA HR+60 storage and more...

>From: Gilbert Sebenste <address@hidden>
>Organization: NIU
>Keywords: 200004182047.OAA26494 McIDAS-X -XCD addendum

Gilbert,

>I would like to have these installed on my Linux box, but I'm afraid I'll
>screw up what you did when you installed it. What do I have to do? Just
>follow the directions?

Installing the addendum should really be easy.  I think that you should do
it, so you won't be intimidated in the future.

This is what I would do:

<login as the user 'mcidas'>

  cd mcidas7.6/update

  ftp ftp.unidata.ucar.edu
    < user >
    < pass >
    cd unix/760/bugfix
    binary
    get mcupdate.tar.Z
    quit

  ./mcunpack

  cd ../src
  touch Mcmkmcgrid.c
  make all

<wait until all of the compilations and linking have finished>

<login as the user running your LDM>

  ldmadmin stop

<back as the user 'mcidas' still in the ~mcidas/mcidas7.6/src directory>

  make install.all

  cd ~mcidas/data
  cp DSSERVE.BAT LSSERVE.BAT

  cd ~mcidas/workdata
  batch.k LSSERVE.BAT                (I didn't make any changes to the copy
                                      of LSSERVE.BAT that I made when I did
                                      the original installation, so none
                                      should be needed here)

<just to make sure that everything was updated correctly, do the following
while still in the ~mcidas/workdata directory>

  cat RTMODELS.CFG

The stuff at the bottom should look like:

  # History: 20000403 - Changed ETA grid filing format (3 -> 1) in order to
  #                       file grids out to 60 hours (March 29, 2000 NWS change)
  #                     Changed 'rint' for ETA grids to be 60000 so that
  #                       there will be separate GRID files for each of the
  #                       0, 6, 12, and 18 Z model run times.  This will
  #                       result in use of 120 GRID file names for ETA model 
grids
  #                     Moved ETA starting GRID file number to 5501 since there
  #                       were not enough GRID file numbers in the 50xx space
  
  SCRATCH=5001
  NGM=  3 5051 120000 240000 480000
  MRF=  1 5101 120000 240000 960000
  MAPS= 0 5201 30000
  MDR=  2 5301
  AVN=  3 5401 120000 240000 720000
  ETA=  1 5501  60000 240000 480000

If it doesn't, please contact me!

  cat GRIBDEC.CFG

The MAXGRID= setting should be MAXGRID=5000

  more HRS.CFG

The SPOOLENG= setting should be SPOOLENG=32

  ls gbtb*

You should see:

  gbtbpds001.a74v1   gbtbpds001.0v1     gbtbpds001.2v3
  gbtbpds001.a98v1   gbtbpds001.2v1     gbtbpds001.4v1
  gbtbpds001.av1     gbtbpds001.2v2     gbtbpds001.bv1

Now do:

  lwu.k DEL HRS.SPL
  lwu.k DEL GRIBDEC.PRO


<back as the user running your LDM>

ldmadmin start

The update should take you no more than a half hour (depending on your
machine's speed).


I seem to remember that you are not decoding any model data into
McIDAS GRIDs.  All of the mods related to GRID decoding, therefore,
really do not affect you.  You will, however, want to update SNDHODO,
but that will be done for you by the 'make all' and 'make install.all'
invocations listed above.

>From address@hidden  Tue Apr 18 14:47:48 2000

Thank Tom! See my previous message to you.

Tom

>From address@hidden  Wed Apr 19 12:04:53 2000
>Subject: McIDAS 7.611

Tom (Yoksas),

Thanks for the help. I was able to successfully upgrade my McIDAS version
with the patches given...it took 9 minutes to do on a dual PII 450 MHZ
machine and my slow fingers today. HODO works now, and some necessary GINI
files that needed to be updated have been. COD folks...the HODO stuff
should be working well now!