Unidata McIDAS-X - v2004 Available for Download
20 July 2004
Unidata McIDAS Users:
Unidata McIDAS-X Version 2004 is now available for download.
Unidata McIDAS-X v2004 is a combination of SSEC McIDAS-X v2004 and
XCD v2004 including additional bugfixes developed by the UPC, and
various applications and enhancements from the UPC, the Australian
Bureau of Meteorology, CSU/CIRA, and others.
New/Changed in McIDAS-X:
- McIDAS is now supported on the MacOS-X (Darwin) operating system
- McIDAS now has the ability to use gzip compression during transfers of
data from ADDE remote servers to McIDAS-X client workstations.
Remote server workstations must have port 112 open to allow clients
running McIDAS-X 2004 to access their data. Likewise, ports 500 and
503 must also be open to allow clients running McIDAS-X 2003 to access
their data.
- the type of compressed data transfer can now be specified on a
per-application basis by specifying the MCC= keyword on
the command line.
- McIDAS can now produce GeoTIFF format output
- new ADDE server for AIRS (Aqua satellite) data
- numerous enhancements to the SSEC GUI
- support for building with gcc/f2c/mcfc was
dropped. Sites must use the gcc/g77 compiler
combination instead.
- Unidata McIDAS is supported on RedHat Fedora Core 1 Linux. SSEC
supports McIDAS on RedHat Enterprise WS 3.0 Linux.
- FOUSRPT has been sunset. MOSRPT, introduced in
v2003, is a direct replacement for FOUSRPT.
Release Notes
contains more detailed information about changes in this new release.
Known Problems in McIDAS-X
- The McIDAS-X image window does not materialize under the KDE Linux
environment on some installations. For this reason, we suggest the
use of ghe Gnome environment where no problems are seen.
McIDAS-XCD
- The total number of SAO/METAR stations was increased from 6500
to 7000.
Please review
Installing McIDAS-X on Unix or MacOS X Workstations.
These pages contain information on downloading, installing, and
configuring the packages and significant changes made since the last
Unidata McIDAS release, Version 2003. They should be read carefully
before attempting an installation.
NOTES of interest:
- There is a concise ABCs of procedures for upgrading from v2003
to 2004:
ABCs of Upgrading from a Previous Distribution
- users can now use the DIRFILE= syntax of DSSERVE when defining POINT
and GRID datasets. Previously, this was only available for IMAGE
datasets.
Send questions/comments to <support@unidata.ucar.edu>.
Tom Yoksas
Unidata User Support
