20050606: Surface MD file is not generated in a RedHat Linux system (cont.)

>From: Eirh-Yu Hsie <address@hidden>
>Organization: CU/CIRES
>Keywords: 200506032148.j53LmYZu017997 McIDAS-XCD configuration
    
Hi Hsie,

After trying a variety of things on rainbow yesterday, last night, and
this morning (like rebuilding/reinstalling the v2004 distribution from
scratch), I found out that someone had modified two XCD configuration
files:

- XCDDEC.BAT
- ISFCDEC.CFG

The changes made related to the number of surface stations to be
processed (the default v2004 values of 7000 were changed to 15000).
This might have been OK _if_ the schema for the surface file (schema
ISFC) had been modified accordingly.

To get surface data decoding again, I:

- reverted the changes in XCDDEC.BAT and ISFCDEC.CFG to the v2004 defaults
- stopped the LDM
- deleted the file ~mcidas/linux/workdata/DCLSTIDX.PTR
- deleted the file /home/mcidas/savedata/SAOMETAR.RAP
- reran XCDDEC.BAT
- restarted the LDM

After the changes above, XCD correctly created
/home/mcidas/savedata/SAOMETAR.RAT and the surface MD file for today is
being populated.

The question now is who made the modifications I reference above (I suspect
that it was Owen Cooper, but I don't know for sure).  The next question
is if modifying the ISFC schema (file ~mcidas/linux/workdata/DCISFC) to
support 15000 stations and using the modified XCDDEC.BAT and ISFCDEC.CFG
files would result in XCD being able to correctly decode surface data.

Cheers,

Tom
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