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>From: "Hoeth, Brian" <address@hidden> >Organization: JSFC >Keywords: 200203201846.g2KIk1a20211 NWS RCM composite CFILLCLP Brian, >Great, thanks again Tom, it's working just fine now! Great! >I wouldn't mind having access to your other topo files too. I put the entire set of topographic images that I include in Unidata McIDAS in the pub/mcidas/data directory of anonymous FTP on ftp.unidata.ucar.edu. I access the files AREA90* as the ADDE dataset TOPO: DSSERVE LIST TOPO Group/Descriptor Type Format & Range RT Comment ------------------------ ----- ------------------ -- -------------------- TOPO/ALL IMAGE AREA 9000-9019 All topographic images TOPO/CONF IMAGE AREA 9011-9011 North America (Conformal) TOPO/GLOB IMAGE AREA 9000-9000 Global (Mercator) TOPO/GOES8 IMAGE AREA 9016-9016 GOES-8 (75W) TOPO/GOES9 IMAGE AREA 9017-9017 GOES-9 (135W) TOPO/MDR IMAGE AREA 9018-9018 US Radar projection TOPO/MERC IMAGE AREA 9010-9010 North America (Mercator) TOPO/MOLL IMAGE AREA 9015-9015 Global (Mollweide) TOPO/NPOLE IMAGE AREA 9014-9014 Northern Hemisphere TOPO/QUAD IMAGE AREA 9019-9019 NW Quadrasphere TOPO/SPOLE IMAGE AREA 9013-9013 Southern Hemisphere TOPO/WHEMI IMAGE AREA 9012-9012 Western Hemisphere DSSERVE: done I put the BATCH file I use to setup the TOPO dataset, TOPOADDE.BAT, in the same directory. Setup the TOPO dataset in your McIDAS-X session by running: BATCH TOPOADDE.BAT >Thanks, No worries. Talk to you later... Tom