[McIDAS #EXQ-796373]: McIDAS install

Hi Paul, et. al.,

Sorry for the tardy replies.  I am now in Phoenix in the exhibit area
working on getting things working for the AMS show, so my ability to 
get to support email is limited.

> additional info to help
> 
> This is a typical error that occurs....
> 
> SFCPLOT WINDV CANADAMAP LATEST GRA=6 COLOR=3
> Accessing Dataset Name = RTPTSRC/SFCHOURLY.ALL
> SFCPLOT: Cannot contact server (connect() failed)
> SFCPLOT failed, RC=1
> SFCCON P3DIF OLAY GRA=6 COLOR=2 DASH=POS CINT=0.5
> Accessing Dataset Name = RTPTSRC/SFCHOURLY.ALL
> SFCCON: Cannot contact server (connect() failed)
> SFCCON - Done

OK, I don't know why you routinely get (connect() failed) messages.  If all
of the scripts are run out of the 'mcidas' account, then you could change
the client routing table entries to use LOCAL-DATA instead of climate.cod.edu.
This should then do all requests out of your local account and bypass the
remote ADDE server altogether.

NB: this approach will not help if you are running the various scripts out
of a different account or from a different machine.

I will change the client routing info for you to see if this helps:

<as 'mcidas'>
cd ~mcidas/data
-- edit LOCDATA.BAT and replace climate.cod.edu with LOCAL-HOST
cd $MCDATA
batch.k LOCDATA.BAT

> What does it mean that the server cannot be contacted? This seems to be the
> problem with satellite images as well.

The connection is failing for some reason.  This is likely to be some weird
problem with the networking setup on climate, not in McIDAS.

Cheers,

Tom
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Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: EXQ-796373
Department: Support McIDAS
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed