20020411: McIDAS decoding questions (cont.)

>From: William C Klein <address@hidden>
>Organization: Valparaiso
>Keywords: 200204101351.g3ADpma28875 McIDAS-XCD ldm-mcidas

Bill,

>The ./mcunpack command is not found.

Did you CD to the ~mcidas/mcidas7.8/update directory and do the
download to it?  This is the directory where mcunpack is located in the
Unidata McIDAS-X distribution.

Note: the mcupdate.tar.Z file expects that you will be in the
~mcidas/mcidas7.8/update directory when it is unpacked.  The reason for
this is that all files in the tarball have relative directory
references like ../src/makefile, ../data/VERSION.TXT.  If you are not
in the ~mcidas/mcidas7.8/update directory when you unpack
mcupdate.tar.Z, the code will not bet put into the proper directories.

If, for some reason, your ~mcidas/mcidas7.8/update directory does not
have mcunpack in it, you can FTP it from the same directory that
you grabbed mcupdate.tar.Z:

3a) FTP the addendum unpacker to your machine and unpack it:
    ftp ftp.unidata.ucar.edu
      <user> umcidas
      <pass> XXXXXX
      cd unix/780/bugfix
      binary
      get mcunpack
      quit

    chmod +x mcunpack
    ./mcunpack

>Should I continue with doing a gunzip and tar -xvf... ?

It is best to use the unpack script, mcunpack especially if the OS
running on your machine is Linux.

Tom

>From address@hidden Thu Apr 11 10:43:16 2002
>Subject: Re: 20020411: McIDAS decoding questions (cont.) 

Thanks -- found it.

Once again, too many things going on...

Bill

>From address@hidden Fri Apr 12 09:28:59 2002
>Subject: Re: 20020410: McIDAS decoding questions

Tom,

I've inserted comments below:

re: setting up MCGUI to see NEXRCOMP imagery

>The install went fine.  We can now see the NEXRCOMP data.

re: GRID data not being decoded?

>output from decinfo.k LIST:

>Processing Data Monitor: DMGRID       is active
>=========================================================================
>Decoder       Status      Configuration File
>----------------------------------------------------------------------
>GRIB          Active      GRIBDEC.CFG

>I'm not sure if we are getting this now.  I'm not finding it under any of
>the display types.

re: FOUS14 data

>These appear to be in better shape now.

re: LDM failover site

>We get data from UIUC at this point.  Originally we were to get the data
>from COD, but there were issues with their firewall.  I cannot remember
>what happened with PSU, but we were set up with UIUC.

>If we could get PSU to be the failover at this point, that would be great.

re: NLDN lightning data

>Haven't started on the NLDN data yet.

>Thanks,
>Bill

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