20000422: McIDAS-X, -XCD Addendum for ETA HR+60 storage and more... (cont.)

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>From: Gilbert Sebenste <sebenste@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Organization: NIU
>Keywords: 200004200431.WAA25836 McIDAS-X 7.611 addendum DSSERVE ADDE

Gilbert,

re: set definitions for MCDATA, MCPATH, etc in shell specific file
>Which you did, thanks.

re: try running McIDAS commands from the Unix command line
>Got it.

re: check out shell scripts that accompany distribution to see how to
wrap McIDAS-X commands
>Will do!

re: don't know how ADDE data location information got hammered
>I do. I scour out anything 2 days old or older in the /home/mcidas/data
>directory.

I strongly recommend that the ~mcidas/data directory be used only for
the files in the McIDAS-X distribution.  Data files should be put in
other directories and referenced by REDIRECTions or MCPATH.  In a setup
like this, the ~mcidas/data/directory should NEVER be scoured!

>Do I have to recompile it to change it's location, or
>just update my .cshrc?

I guess that I don't know what 'it' is.  In order to restore files from
the distribution that may have gotten scoured from the the
~mcidas/data directory, you should:

<login as 'mcidas'>
cd mcidas7.6/src
make install.data

 - or reinstall everything -

make install.mcxall

re: upgrading Linux versions
>Good! We'll see how 6.0->6.2 goes next week. Thanks again for all your
>help!

No problem.

Tom

>From sebenste@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sun Apr 23 21:42:13 2000
Subject: Re: 20000422: McIDAS-X, -XCD Addendum for ETA HR+60 storage and more... (cont.) 

re: which directory is getting incorrectly scoured.
>Oops! My fault. I meant /home/data/mcidas, which has the data. I never
>scour /home/mcidas/data. My bust! I do have the file in there, but it must
>have gotten erased. Who knows. 

>Anyway, it is all working now. Wonder what 7.7 has in store for us this
>summer?

Gilbert