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Hi Owen, re: > Hsie and I are getting our machine, squall, ready to send to Fairbanks > for the big NOAA/NASA aircraft study above the Arctic this March-April. Yup, I've been on squall quite a bit lately :-) > Squall will have an LDM so we will be sending a lot of data to this > machine for plotting in the field with McIDAS. But for bandwidth > reasons we are limited as to how much data we can send. So we are > setting up some ADDE datasets here on blizzard at NOAA ESRL so that I > can point to them when I am in Fairbanks and easily copy AREA files to > squall. Sounds like exactly what I would do. > The ADDE datasets work fine here in the lab, but we're not so sure if > the data are accessible to machines outside of our firewall. Could we > ask you to run a very quick check to see if you can see one of theses > ADDE datasets? > In MCTABLE.TXT you need to add ADDE_ROUTE_POLARCAT=BLIZZARD.AL.NOAA.GOV > and then enter: > imglist.k POLARCAT/ARC_COMP_IR.ALL I can report that I can successfully access the POLARCAT/ARC_COMP_IR dataset from my work machine, yakov.unidata.ucar.edu: <as 'mcidas' on yakov> DATALOC ADD POLARCAT BLIZZARD.AL.NOAA.GOV Group Name Server IP Address -------------------- ---------------------------------------- POLARCAT BLIZZARD.AL.NOAA.GOV <LOCAL-DATA> indicates that data will be accessed from the local data directory. DATALOC -- done DSINFO I POLARCAT Dataset Names of Type: IMAGE in Group: POLARCAT Name NumPos Content ------------ ------ -------------------------------------- ARC_COMP_IR 99999 POLARCAT ARC_COMP_IR DSINFO -- done IMGLIST POLARCAT/ARC_COMP_IR Image file directory listing for:POLARCAT/ARC_COMP_IR Pos Satellite/ Date Time Center Band(s) sensor Lat Lon --- ------------- ------------ -------- ---- ---- ------------ 401 G-9 IMG 11 FEB 08042 15:00:00 90 -45 4 IMGLIST: done The North Pole Composite IRs ook good! > thanks! No worries. Cheers, Tom **************************************************************************** Unidata User Support UCAR Unidata Program (303) 497-8642 P.O. Box 3000 address@hidden Boulder, CO 80307 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unidata HomePage http://www.unidata.ucar.edu **************************************************************************** Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: TFL-790151 Department: Support McIDAS Priority: Normal Status: Closed