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>From: "Kwan-yin Kong" <address@hidden> >Organization: UCAR/Unidata >Keywords: 200508291349.j7TDnujo003962 McIDAS ADDE Hi Kwan, re: IP change for adde.ucar.edu; requires action >Thanks for sending me the reminders. I finally read your >email, and I made the changes you've indicated. You said >that you sent an email regarding the IP change to the >mcidas-x and ldm-users lists, but I did not get it (or so >I think). Am I on the email list? Perhaps only Prof. >Hindman is on the list? I just checked, and you are correct: Prof. Hindman was the only one at CCNY that was subscribed to the mcidas-x list. I just added you, so you will get messages sent to the list from now on. >When I read that I needed to change a McIDAS >configuration, I thought it would be "very involved". But >all it was needed was to run DATALOC HOST in the accounts. >Thanks for making the procedures as simple as it is. No worries. > This was "simple" compared with what I have been doing >lately--installing NCAR graphics on a Linux machine. > Little did I know that prior to installing NCARG, I >needed to install HDF, ZLIB, JPEG, etc first. Then I had >to change directory locations in a hdf.c file before it >finally compiled successfully! Sounds painful. Didn't the NCARG instructions expain the steps? >I found the same HDF, >ZLIB, JPEG in my own 'mcidas' account, I guess they came >and installed with the McIDAS package, right? Right. External packages required by McIDAS are bundled with the distribution and added to the makefile. This was done to make a user's life as easy as possible. >Thanks again, No worries. Good to hear from you. Cheers, Tom