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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 «¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤» The best way to do it was to fly up their butt and let em have it. That works every time. - Col. Don Blakeslee - P51 Pilot Steve O. Physical Sciences Dept. Network Admin See updated NCC weather conditions at http://wr.psi.ncc.edu/~data http://www.ncc.edu/dptpages/physci/