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>From: "Anderson, Alan C. " <address@hidden> >Organization: St. Cloud State >Keywords: 200303112223.h2BMNIB2013810 McIDAS Sun Solaris HDF Hi Alan, >As I noted to you last week, I am starting to set up a new terminal >that will probably replace waldo. > >Have configured terminal, obtained mcidas2002, ran mcinstall and >build. Had some initial troubles with build, but I had left out the >step of setting some env variables as directed in the Notes & >Warnings, netCDF section. Right. >When I fixed that, the build ran to completion. I did edit the >makefile and changed DEBUG from -0 to perhaps this was >unnecessary. This should have been unnecessary. >Continued today with testing. The directions for this part are not >explicit for a build/test when no previous version of MCIDAS is >installed. Hmm... I wrote the testing instructions so that one could test the new build in place before doing the install. The main reason for this was so that a site could check out a new version before installing it over an old one. >I messed up to start by just going to >~mcidas/mcidas2002/src and running mcidasx. It started but with no >label as to version #. I exited MCIDAS, and realized I should have >done setenv commands for MCDATA, MCPATH, MCGUI and some other changes, >so I did them. OK, sounds good. >Then, mcidas started ok from ~mcidas with the version labeled 2002a >020810 This is correct. >Test commands ran ok until near the end. Test map in panel 5, ok >Topo image in panel 9, ok > >MAP H PAN=3 did not create an overlay map. No error message >listed. I believe that I ran into this during the training workshop and determined that it was a weird interaction between the newly built and existing old versions of McIDAS. I thought that I changed the online documentation to get around this, but evidently I did not do a good enough job. Hopefully you are looking at the online documentation/installation instructions for v2002 and not 7.80. If you are not, then you should switch over to the v2002 stuff as it has updated instructions. The bottom line in this, however, that the failure to plot the map could be safely ignored. Now, since you are installing on a new machine, I would have assumed that there would not be an existing version of McIDAS that you would have to deal with. >I tried everything at least twice, including exiting MCIDAS and >starting over. > >So, I did not go on with the install, not sure how serious the >problem is. Again, since it is a new machine, I would plow ahead and ignore the failure to plot the map on top of the topo image in panel 3. >This terminal is cyclone.stcloudstate.edu, user mcidas >has same pw as for waldo. Have turned telnet on for cyclone. Still >off for waldo. I tried to quickly jump onto cyclone to take a look, but my telnet attempt was unsuccessful (the telnet eventually timed out without giving me a login prompt). >Let me know what you think. I think that you don't have to worry about the map plotting on the topo image in panel 9. I would, however, quickly rerun the test after you install v2002. After doing the install, you will not want the MCPATH, etc. definitions you set for the testing done before the install. The easiest way to get rid of those settings is to exit and log back in. This assumes, of course, that you have correctly setup the user's .cshrc file (if using the C shell) to define MCDATA, MCPATH, etc. Tom