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>From: "Alliss, Randall J." <address@hidden> >Organization: Northrop Grumman >Keywords: 200402171225.i1HCP4rV003216 McIDAS ADDE DSSERVE DIRFILE Hi Randy, >i have been collecting and archiving meteosat 5 and 7 imagery for sometime >and have been changing the AREA name to >yearMonthDayHourMin.metX e.g., 200202171200.met7 > >when i setup a mcidas dataset to view the imagery it does not work. i am >using DSSERVE ADD MET7/DATA AREA DIRFILE='path/2002*.met7' > >this works for GOES imagery including GOES9 but not MET7/5 data. >can you shed some light. > >i am using Mcidas 2003. This should work fine. I would check to make sure that all of the files in the set defined by 'path/2002*.met7' are valid AREA files. Also, if your data is arranged so that there are no files other than the ME5/7 AREA files in any 'path' directory, you might try to simplify your regular expression to something like 'path/2002*'. The last thing I would try is removing the quotes from around the regular expression (shouldn't be needed, but...). You can always see what is going on with the server by adding the TRACE=1 keyword sequence to an IMGLIST command and then examining the 'trce' file produced. Cheers, Tom >From address@hidden Tue Feb 17 07:53:12 2004 >ok thanks i will try. >i do remember copying the file to AREA1000 and that worked when i imglisted. >stay tuned. >Randy >From address@hidden Tue Feb 17 11:39:39 2004 Hi, Randy - I just tried this with MET7/B data, and it works fine for me. Take a look at what I did, and see if you can see any differences in how you're setting up your data: IMGCOPY MET/B A/A.4000 !pwd /home/beckys/mcidas/data !mkdir path !cp AREA4000 path/200402171800.met7 !ls path 200402171800.met7 DSSERVE ADD MET7/DATA AREA DIRFILE='path/2004*.met7' Adding the group MET7 as a local dataset Group/Descriptor Type Format & Range RT Comment ------------------------ ----- ------------------ -- -------------------- MET7/DATA IMAGE AREA DIRFILE=path/2004*.met7 DSSERVE: done imglist MET7/DATA Image file directory listing for:MET7/DATA Pos Satellite/ Date Time Center Band(s) sensor Lat Lon --- ------------- ------------ -------- ---- ---- ------------ 1 METEOSAT7 17 FEB 04048 18:00:00 45 19 10 imglist: done One thing you might want to try is to put the fully explicit path in your DIRFILE (e.g. /home/beckys/mcidas/data/path/2004*.met7 instead of just path/2004*.met7). If this doesn't work for you and you can't figure out why, please send me the output from these commands run in the McIDAS command window: !pwd !ls -la path o if this doesn't list any files, then there is probably something wrong with your DIRFILE set up o also, make sure that the files are readable by you IMGLIST MET7/DATA.ALL Hope this helps! Becky =============== Becky Schaffer McIDAS Help Desk address@hidden =============== >From address@hidden Wed Feb 18 06:44:32 2004 thanks...i got it working now! Randy