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Unidata McIDAS-X - v2006 Known Bugs/Deficiencies

The following lists the known deficiencies or items scheduled for revision in the Unidata McIDAS-X distribution.

As bugs are uncovered, they will be added to this list. As bugs are fixed and routines get updated, code updates will be made available, announced in Unidata McIDAS-X Version 2006 Addenda, and the corresponding entries in the list below will be deleted.

Unidata Tcl/Tk GUI

The Unidata 2006 Tcl/Tk MCGUI interface continues to be a work in progress. Incremental upgrades to its functionality will be released in package Addenda throughout the year. Availability of these updates will be announced to the mcidas-x@unidata.ucar.edu email list which McIDAS-X users should subscribe to.

SAVE option for PTCON macros

Non-simple grids (e.g., THA, THAE, ABV, VOR, etc.) created from objective analysis of observed data when saved to a GRID file do not include the fields DAY, level, or units.

mcimage Under KDE

Even though McIDAS-X image window runs under recent KDE Linux environments, it has been found to have a slow memory leak that can render the user's workstation unusable if left running for several days. For this reason, we suggest the use of ghe Gnome environment where no problems are seen.

SSEC recommends that McIDAS-XCD be run on 32-bit versions of Linux. Experience at the UPC has shown that there may, in fact, be a problem running -XCD on 64-bit versions of Linux (we run Fedora Core 5). The problems we are seeing are decoders stop writing output data files (both MDXX and GRID) after a certain period of time, typically a couple of days. This failure is currently being investigated, and a bugfix addendum will be released as soon as the problem is fixed.

Send questions/comments to <support-mcidas@unidata.ucar.edu>.

 
 
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