20021225: Access to Mcidas files from OS/2 (cont.)

>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

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>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
>>
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