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>From: "Craddock, Mary Ellen" <address@hidden> >Organization: Northrop Grumman Information Technology, TASC >Keywords: 200306121159.h5CBxXLd023117 TASC remap2 Mary Ellen, > I'm sorry it has been over a week since I responded to your last >email. I was out of town last week in CA for business. Before I left for CA, No worries. I had plenty to do :-) >I was planning to send you a GOES East image so that you could run >remap2.pgm on it per your suggestion. When I ran remap2.k on it to record >the output errors to pass along to you, I was amazed to see that there were >no errors. I ran remap2.k for several different AREA files all generated and >located on our AIX system and could not reproduce the problem. The only >thing different was that I had logged out of the Linux box and restarted >McIDAS before I ran these tests. Perhaps the McIDAS environment was >disrupted. The only thing that I could imagine being different with the environment is your MCPATH or possibly your set of file REDIRECTions if you use them. >Regardless, it is working as it should since as you pointed out >READD() does indeed check and correct for the byte swap issue if needed. I'm glad to hear it! > Thanks for you continued support on this matter! I appreciate all >your time and efforts to help us find the solution. I did run into one other thing when building your version of remap2 on a Sun. The routine cloudp.c uses an array named 'sun', and this causes a problem on Sun since 'sun' is a C define there. In order to get this to work, I changed the name of your array to 'sun_t' and then everything worked. By the way, I was thinking of adding your remap2 routine to my McIDAS distribution renamed to remap2_tasc.pgm. In order to do this, I would rename cloudp.c to cloudp_tas.c and go ahead and include sza.c in cloudp_tasc.c. I would add the routine in my XRD section of the makefile (build the XRD/MDF routines I include by running 'make xrd' and 'make install.xrd' from the distribution src directory) if I have your/TASC's permission to do so. Please let me know if the inclusion of your routine is OK. Thanks. Tom