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>From: Gilbert Sebenste <address@hidden> >Organization: NIU >Keywords: 200004200431.WAA25836 McIDAS-X 7.611 addendum DSSERVE ADDE Gilbert, re: set definitions for MCDATA, MCPATH, etc in shell specific file >Which you did, thanks. re: try running McIDAS commands from the Unix command line >Got it. re: check out shell scripts that accompany distribution to see how to wrap McIDAS-X commands >Will do! re: don't know how ADDE data location information got hammered >I do. I scour out anything 2 days old or older in the /home/mcidas/data >directory. I strongly recommend that the ~mcidas/data directory be used only for the files in the McIDAS-X distribution. Data files should be put in other directories and referenced by REDIRECTions or MCPATH. In a setup like this, the ~mcidas/data/directory should NEVER be scoured! >Do I have to recompile it to change it's location, or >just update my .cshrc? I guess that I don't know what 'it' is. In order to restore files from the distribution that may have gotten scoured from the the ~mcidas/data directory, you should: <login as 'mcidas'> cd mcidas7.6/src make install.data - or reinstall everything - make install.mcxall re: upgrading Linux versions >Good! We'll see how 6.0->6.2 goes next week. Thanks again for all your >help! No problem. Tom >From address@hidden Sun Apr 23 21:42:13 2000 Subject: Re: 20000422: McIDAS-X, -XCD Addendum for ETA HR+60 storage and more... (cont.) re: which directory is getting incorrectly scoured. >Oops! My fault. I meant /home/data/mcidas, which has the data. I never >scour /home/mcidas/data. My bust! I do have the file in there, but it must >have gotten erased. Who knows. >Anyway, it is all working now. Wonder what 7.7 has in store for us this >summer? Gilbert