20000802: Old OS/2 McIdas System (cont.)

>From: "E. A. Ripley" <address@hidden>
>Organization: University of Saskatchewan
>Keywords: 200008011914.e71JEFT24329 McIDAS-OS2 issues

Earle,

>I am running McIdas 7.5 on Warp 4.

OK, this is more current than I thought.  I think that you should
be able to use ADDE access to remote data and continue to create
the displays that you have been making.

>If Don is available perhaps he can advise me what would be involved in
>switching to ADDE for my data.

Don is off of McIDAS support.  I can help you out.

To begin, the first thing you need to do is shut down data ingest into
your OS/2 box.  You do this by:

o EXIT McIDAS
o go to a different OS/2 window
o cd \mcidas\tools
o run SETUP
  when asked "Is the data ingestion IDD or None (I/N)?" answer N for None
  complete the rest of setup
o go back to your McIDAS OS/2 and restart McIDAS by typing 'MCIDAS'

Once McIDAS is back up and not ingesting data, there are a few tests
to run to see if your 7.5 version of McIDAS-OS2 is compatible with
McIDAS-X 7.6/7 ADDE servers.  Here goes:

DATALOC ADD RTIMAGES adde.ucar.edu
DSINFO IMAGE RTIMAGES

<report what you get back from this>

If the DSINFO worked, try:

IMGDISP RTIMAGES/GE-IR STA=CYXE EU=IMAGE REFRESH='EG;MAP H'

If this worked, try:

SFCPLOT T OLAY FRAME

If this worked, try:

SF 2
DATALOC ADD RTGRIDS adde.ucar.edu
MAP NA PRO=CONF
GRDDISP RTGRIDS/ETA PAR=T LEV=SFC UNIT=C CINT=5 NAV=C DAY=#Y TIME=12 FHOUR=12

If this worked, then you have successfully tested display of images,
point source data, and grids in your McIDAS-OS2 7.5.  The work after that
would be converting whatever scripts you are running to use of ADDE
replacements for the commands you are now using.

Please let me know the results of the tests above.

Tom

>From address@hidden Wed Aug  2 16:25:23 2000
>Subject: Re: 20000802: Old OS/2 McIdas System (cont.) 

Thanks, Tom; I'll give it a try tomorrow.