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>From: "Paul L. Sirvatka" <address@hidden> >Organization: College of DuPage >Keywords: 200104102320.f3ANKPL28016 McIDAS-X PROFSECT Paul, >I have been trying to create images from the 6 min profilers with the >following command > >PROFSECT #PROFSTATION LATEST X -6 DAT=6MIN TYP=6MIN GRA=2 Presumably you have defined an alias for RTPTSRC/PROF6MIN using AKA, and that alias is 6MIN? If you have not, the DAT=6MIN keyword sequence is incorrect. We designed PROFSECT so that you don't have to specify both DATaset= and TYPe=. The indication of TYPE=6MIN should be sufficient: PROFSECT #PROFSTATION LATEST X -6 TYP=6MIN GRA=2 >Many times the image says no data available since that exacttime is not >available. Is there anyway around this? I will need to check this out further. PROFSECT should not fail if any of the times in the sequence are missing, including the last (most current). Tom