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>From: alan anderson <address@hidden> >Organization: St. Cloud State >Keywords: 200102221913.f1MJDPL26671 McIDAS-X 7.7x XSECT XSECTG mapurx.for Alan, re: >>touch mapurx.for >>make xsect.k xsectg.k >>rm ~/bin/xsect.k ~/bin/xsectg.k >>ln xsect.k xsectg.k >Guess I am making lots of trouble for you today. I tried the 2nd >solution you describe above, thought I followed it correctly, and >everything executed ok, but when finished, I cannot plot a xsection. This one is MY fault. The last line above is incomplete! It should have read: ln xsect.k xsectg.k ~/bin What happened was that a hard link was made between xsect.k and xsectg.k in the ~mcidas/mcidas7.7/src directory. What needed to happen was to build new xsect.k and xsectg.k executables and link then to the ~mcidas/bin directory. My screwup, sorry! >This is using MCGUI, Display, ... everything default for raob xsection. >Using MCIDAS ver. 7.704, just downloaded it this morning. > >I just get a blank image window. This was because there was no xsect.k or xsectg.k in ~mcidas/bin on pileus. >I thought there was a way to get the >command status from commands executed by the gui, but could not find it, >so I don't know what the problem might be. We do have data, since >I can get a xsection on another machine, but with the problem of the >inset map still there. > >Any hints? Shoot me now! I took you up on your offer of getting on pileus (I had to go through waldo since pileus.stcloudstate.edu was not a recognized host from my sessions here at Unidata). To correct the problem I caused, I did the following: cd mcidas7.7/src rm xsect.k xsectg.k xsect.o xsectg.o make xsect.k xsectg.k ln xsect.k xsectg.k ~/bin Now there are viable executables where they should be. >Thanks Sorry for the previous bad advice. Tom