Success on Redhat Linux 7.2 with McIDAS 7.8 and ldm 5.1.4

Hello Tom or whom it may concern.

I'm writing to let you know that I am able to use ldm and mcidas 7.8 on
a redhat linux 7.2 intel system at SUNY-Nassau

I built ldm 5.1.4 from source and used the prebuilt binary ldm-mcidas
decoders.

I had some problems with decoding of data but I was able to fix it by
searching through support archives and trying solutions you had
proposed to other users.

The problems I had where:

xcd_run not being able to find ingetext.k, reason: it wasn't there in
the mcidas/bin dir.  I fixed this by downloading mcupdate,
uncompressing it and remaking/installing all.

After this the other problem I had was that no MD files being created
in the ldm's mcidas data dir (other files such as AREA, .IDX etc were
there)

I fixed this by reseting the decoding setup, as user mcidas I ran
following commands

cd ~mcidas/workdata

  decinfo.k SET DMSFC INACTIVE
  decinfo.k SET DMRAOB INACTIVE
  decinfo.k SET DMSYN INACTIVE
  decinfo.k SET DMMISC INACTIVE

  decinfo.k SET DMSFC ACTIVE
  decinfo.k SET DMRAOB ACTIVE
  decinfo.k SET DMSYN ACTIVE
  decinfo.k SET DMMISC ACTIVE

Now everything is up and running and mcidas is performing noticeably
faster than before. I'm also going to try out your new gui.

Have fun


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