20030106: download snaffoos

>From: Patrick Dills <address@hidden>
>Organization: UCAR/COMET
>Keywords: 200301060839.h068d0t11489 McIDAS

Hi Patrick,

>I was trying to download the latest McIDAS 2002 updates from my 'dills'
>account and received the following message...
>
>'You must be in an educational institution to download this software.'

I relayed this to our web guru, and he is setting up a new category for
all of the groups in UCAR.

>Was also unable to ftp to the ftp.unidata.ucar.edu site.

This is odd.  I am able to ftp to our site with no problems from more than
one university site where I have a login.  Until the new UCAR group
is setup for web download, please try the FTP site again:

For McIDAS:

machine: ftp.unidata.ucar.edu
user:    xxxxx
pass:    xxxxx!
directory: unix/2002

One thing about our FTP site: we check to make sure that a machine
contacting us by FTP has both forward and reverse name lookup.  If you
tried your FTP from a machine that does not support this, you would be
denied.

>And we've apparently also lost track of our COMET account information with
>some support staff departures of late.  Normally we'd be using that
>account but thought I would give the download a shot using my account.

OK.

>Any and all help to break the ice would be much appreciated.

Please retry the FTP.

Tom Yoksas

>From address@hidden Mon Jan  6 15:12:25 2003

Thank you Tom.

Trying the FTP site again, this time from a different machine (one or
our Solaris boxes) and with the 'umcidas' account, I was successful.  I
suspect the fwd & reverse DNS lookup may have been an issue as well.

Appreciate the help!  Now it's off to install land.

Patrick

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Patrick Dills (Assoc. Scientist/Meteorologist)  address@hidden
UCAR / COMET                                    PH:  (303) 497-8339
P.O. Box 3000, Boulder, CO 80307-3000           FAX: (303) 497-8491
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