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>From: Earle <address@hidden> >Organization: University of Saskatchewan >Keywords: 200212152209.gBFM9w412746 McIDAS-OS2 Earle, >I ran the script that you suggested about a week ago, but as usual the >machine just got bogged down for a longtime and I didn't see any output. If >I run it again where do I find the output it produces?? The output I am looking for will be displayed in the McIDAS Text and Command window. The command I am asking you to run: SFCCON T USA DEV=CCC will need to be run by hand from that window (not from a script). The DEV=CCC keyword sequence tells the program being run to report all messages: info, debug, and error. It is the debug output that I am looking for. Tom >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Unidata Support" <address@hidden> >To: "Earle" <address@hidden> >Cc: <address@hidden> >Sent: Monday, December 16, 2002 8:56 AM >Subject: 20021215: Access to Mcidas files > > >> >From: Earle <address@hidden> >> >Organization: University of Saskatchewan >> >Keywords: 200212152209.gBFM9w412746 McIDAS-OS2 >> >> Hi Earle, >> >> How is retirement treating you? >> >> >It has been a long time since I accessed files on your server and the old >> >access (umcidas) doesn't seem to work.... >> >> The user name and password have not changed in quite some time, so the >> access should work: >> >> machine: ftp.unidata.ucar.edu >> user: xxxxx >> pass: xxxxx >> >> Sometimes FTPs fail when DNS does not have both forward and reverse >> name lookup for the user's machine. We enforce this to keep denial of >> service attacks at bay. >> >> What were the synptoms of your FTP failure? >> >> >I am using an old OS/2 system which I do not intend to change (I retired >2 >> >years ago) and will keep it working as long as possible with the minimum >of >> >attention... >> >> I see lots of activity from your machine on the ADDE server, >> adde.ucar.edu. I have always marveled that things have worked so well >> :-) >> >> >In August the SFCCON and RAOBCON programs stopped working presumably due >to >> >changes at your end... >> >> What are the symptoms of the failure? It would be helpful if you could >> send in the textual output from a: >> >> DATALOC ADD RTPTSRC ADDE.UCAR.EDU >> SFCCON T USA DEV=CCC >> >> The output will tell us what is now failing. The problem might be >> something simple on your end. >> >> >Are there new versions I can download? How do I get at them?? >> >> We havn't made a McIDAS-OS2 distribution in several years. I believe >> that you are running the last version that we released. Now, if the >> executables for SFCCON and/or RAOBCON (or PTCON, the program both of >> these actually run), somehow went bad (disk problem, for instance), >> then we may be able to find replacemnts for you. First, we have to >> understand exactly what is not working, so the output from SFCCON with >> the DEV=CCC keyword sequence is crutial. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Tom >> >**************************************************************************** >< >> Unidata User Support UCAR Unidata >> (303)497-8643 P.O. Box >> address@hidden Boulder, CO >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Unidata WWW Service http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ >< >> >**************************************************************************** >< >