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>From: Unidata Support <address@hidden> >Organization: Millersville University of Pennsylvania >Keywords: 200108271943.f7RJhW128098 McIDAS-XCD rapid access Dave, Well, I really thought that what I ran into yesterday should lead me to a solution to your XCD decoding problem, but it hasn't. What I don't understand is the discrepance between the date reflected in the daily spool files (2001240, *.XCD) and the date of the data being decoded by XCD (typically 2001139). This makes no sense to me. Are GEMPAK decoders working correctly? The reason I ask this is that it is almost as though the surface data that is being received is for yesterday (I doubt this, by the way). I almost stopped the LDM and deleted its queue last night, but I decided that I needed to find out from you if anything else on twister is odd. Tom