20001212: Unidata McIDAS access and update information

>From: Leigh Orf <address@hidden>
>Organization: Department of Tesselating Kumquats
>Keywords: 200012121654.eBCGsDo24855 McIDAS-X tesselating Kumquats

Leigh,

Sorry it has taken me so long to reply to your email.

>I am an Atmospheric Sciences faculty member at UNC-Asheville. We are
>licensed for the Unidata software and data. I want to build the latest
>mcidas / mcidas-x distribution on our Red Hat Linux machines. Could you
>please give me login / password / ftp host information so I can download
>the software.

I didn't reply to this message earlier for two reasons:

o I was frantically making last minute changes to the distribution
o I saw that someone at UNCA downloaded the package, so I figured
  that you (or Alex Huang) remembered the username/password

Since you downloaded the distribution:

dryas.atms.unca.edu           Sat Dec 16 11:10:23 2000

I have made a few small changes:

o modified the makefile to install the stretch tables for the CIMSS
  products (the stretch tables were in the distribution you got, but
  the makefile did not have the code that would install them)

o modified the BAR command (bar.pgm) to correctly annotate the storm
  total precipitation products (the format of the previous annotation did
  not allow for dates in the form CCYYDDD; it assumed YYDDD)

o IMGMAG (imgmag.pgm) was replaced by a new version from SSEC that
  saw adoption of Unidata mods to support correct reloading of NOAAPORT
  NIDS images

o changed the ADDE setup BATCH file DSSERVE.BAT to reflect the possible
  existence of both WSI and NOAAPORT NIDS products (dataset group names
  WSINIDS and RTNIDS, respectively)
  
I created a compressed tar file, mcupdate.tar.Z, that contains the modified
modules and put it in the unix/770/bugfix directory of the passworded
McIDAS FTP account on our FTP server, ftp.unidata.ucar.edu.  (There
are other files in this update, but the majority are ones that were updated
before you grabbed the distribution).

You can incorporate all of the changes included by:

<login to workstation as 'mcidas'>
cd mcidas7.7/update
ftp ftp.unidata.ucar.edu
  <user>
  <pass>
  cd unix/770/bugifx
  binary
  get mcupdate.tar.Z
  quit
  ./mcunpack

cd ../src

-- If your machine will be running McIDAS-X and -XCD (workstation and decoders):

make all
make install.all

-- Or, if machine will be running McIDAS-X (workstation):
make mcx
make install.mcxall

>Thanks,

You are welcome.

Tom Yoksas