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>From: Neil Smith <address@hidden> >Organization: Texas A&M >Keywords: 200102130028.f1D0SQL12744 McIDAS-X 7.7x raobcon.pgm Neil, >I've got mcidas-x 7.7 installed on this DEC OK, I think. Thing is >when I start mcidas, the version stated on startup and on the >window bars is 7.10. Why shouldn't I expect that to read 7.7? It should read 7.704. >I know I'm running the correct executable because this happens >even if I run the 7.7 executable by full path name. OK. >What's more, >there was no previous version installed on this box. -Neil Now, that is _very_ weird. I just checked the web access logs and see that you did grab the 7.7 distribution: leap.met.tamu.edu - - [12/Feb/2001:15:58:18 -0700] "GET /packages/mcidas/770/download/mcx770/mcidasx770.tar.Z HTTP/1.0" 200 45516841 "http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/mcidas/770/mcx/getdist.html" "Mozilla/4.7 [en] (X11; I; OSF1 V5.0 alpha)" Given this, you must have then done the following to build the distribution: o define McINST_ROOT to be ~mcidas o run mcinstall which should have told you to cd to the mcidas7.7/src directory o cd mcidas7.7/src make Is all of the above true? If so, then the only thing I can think of is that your MCPATH is set to include the ~mcidas/data directory for a 7.10 build. Is this possible? Tom