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>From: McIDAS <address@hidden> >Organization: University of Puerto Rico >Keywords: 200008111642.e7BGgYN02913 McIDAS-X scripting Karli, >Thank you for your help so far. You are quite welcome. >The feeds seen to be working fine (minus >the constant connection problems). You may have noticed that I switched to feeding off of FSU. A couple of days ago University of Alabama-Huntsville did not seem to be getting much data, so I switched to test my changes. >Our machine still reports that you >are logged on, although you are idle. I have a login going as 'mcidas' and another one as 'ldm'. I was going to work on switching NIDS filing so as to stop running nids2area. This would then force you into using ADDE to look at the radar data. I was going to ask you about this, but I see that you comment on this subject below. >I was wondering if you still need >to do other changes other than the one where the feeds are changed >completely from AREA to ADDE. Yes. My objective would be to: o stop decoding NIDS products into AREA files o setup pqact.conf to FILE the NIDS products into a logical, hierarchical file structure o setup ADDE access to your NIDS products o institute data scouring on the NIDS directory hierarchy I need your go ahead before doing the above. >Speaking of which, I think it would be a >good idea to change to ADDE completely even if we don't have McGUI. I agree. Getting one's feet wet on ADDE is a good idea especially given the availability of high resolution imagery through ADDE. >I just need to talk with Aamos about it to get his approval. OK. >Let me know what you need in order make these changes. See above. >Again, thank you very much. You are welcome. I intend to respond to an earlier email from you as soon as I have completed setup on breeze. Since we are almost there, it should not be long now. Tom