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Hi Angel, re: > Asheville is a huge change from Miami, all for the better. Interesting indeed. I would tend to agree, but, then again, I love the mountains more than the ocean :-) re: > They compare Asheville and Boulder often maybe just a little warmer. My sister lives outside of Ashville (in Brevard). I have never been there myself, but I plan on visiting sometime in the not too distant future. re: > As for McIDAS, we are associated with NC State if that matters any, > at least my paycheck is from them :-) This may be all that is needed for you to use Unidata McIDAS. Do you have an ncsu.edu email address? If yes, you should register in the Unidata website using that email address. You should then be able to get access to Unidata McIDAS. If not, I can all your ncsu.edu email address to our McIDAS exceptions list, and that will give you access to the McIDAS download. re: > I believe runIDV runs so slowly for 2 reasons: the host is a > virtual machine and it is software emulating 3D. This may be the cause, but I run the IDV in a CentOS 64-bit virtual machine in VMware, and things don't take that long to run. I tried the combination in my Windows 7 environment, and it ran in about a second. re: > I know that on my Mac I can execute runIDV pretty quickly. That is what I would expect. re: > I'm enclosing the IDV scripts. Thanks. I will try your script/xidv file in my VM environment later today or tomorrow morning to see what I can see. 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: JZQ-518534 Department: Support McIDAS Priority: Normal Status: Closed