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Hi Fred, re: > I have another idea of how to solve the problem without a McBASI script. The > GOES-South > has ingests at xx:15, xx:28, xx:45, and xx:58. I believe the Ken currently > has his > IMGCOPY scheduled for every 15 minutes. OK, I did not know this about the scheduled IMGCOPYs. re: > Change the scheduler to 4 IMGCOPY commands with a repeat time of 1 hour each. > For the > image scheduled at xx:15 use IMGCOPY SOUTH/SH YYY/ZZZ DAY=#Y RTIME=14 16 > .........For > the xx:28 image use IMGCOPY SOUTH/SH YYY/ZZZ DAY=#Y RTIME=27 29, etc. for the > rest of > the images. If a future image come along with the minutes in the range of > the RTImes, > you may miss one of the 4 images of the hour, but you will still get the > other 3 images. > If the future image has a date more than today into the future, the #Y will > keep from > trying to get that data set. Excellent idea! Simple, well defined and easy to implement!! The only suggestion I have is to expand the time interval by a few minutes just to be sure to get an image that is slightly off of the +15/+28/+45/+58 schedule will be selectable. Nice solution! 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: GEJ-957244 Department: Support McIDAS Priority: Normal Status: Closed