20010822: Unidata McIDAS-X 7.80 available for download

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>Keywords: Unidata McIDAS-X web FTP


Unidata McIDAS-X Users,

Version 7.8 of Unidata McIDAS-X is now available for download by
educational institutions worldwide!

Even though passworded FTP access is still available, users are
strongly encouraged to download the new distribution by using the
'Download Software' link on the Unidata McIDAS-X 7.80 HomePage:

Unidata McIDAS-X Version 7.80
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/mcidas/780/

The web method of package download, which is being developed as the
standard for Unidata offerings, requires that you register as a Unidata
user before you will be allowed access.  The registration process will
only take a couple of minutes, so please signup!  While you are at it ;-),
please fill out the Unidata User's Committee survey:

http://my.unidata.ucar.edu/surveys/spring_2001/survey.php

Unidata McIDAS-X 7.80 is a combination of SSEC McIDAS-X 7.80,
McIDAS-XCD 7.80, and various applications and enhancements from the
UPC, the Australian Bureau of Meteorology, CSU/CIRA, and others.

Featured upgrades in this release are:

- an ADDEized version of the Tcl/Tk MCGUI interface

- a GUI startup interface that allows users to modify and save
  session parameters.  To us the GUI startup, simply run:

  mcidas config

  from the Unix command line after you have finished the 7.80 upgrade.

- "built-in" access within MCGUI to a set of cooperating remote ADDE
  servers for currently supported datasets:

  Model output    Satellite Imagery     Point Data    Weather Text
  ------------    -----------------     ----------    ------------
  RTGRIDS         AMRC                  RTPTSRC       RTWXTEXT
                  CIMSS
                  GINICOMP
                  GINIEAST
                  GINIWEXT
                  ME7
                  RTIMAGES
                  RTNEXRAD
                  TOPO
                  RTNOWRAD (for those who subscribe to the NOWrad (tm)
                            composites from WSI Corporation)

  The list of datasets supported by the MCGUI will be increase throughout
  the fall.

  The current set of sites providing cooperative ADDE services is:

  Site                            Datasets
  -------------------------------+--------------------------------------------
  Plymouth State College          CIMSS, GINICOMP, GINIEAST, GINIWEST, RTIMAGES
  snow.plymouth.edu

  Universite du Quebec a Montreal ME7
  io.sca.uqam.ca

  University of Colorado/CIRES    CIMSS, GINICOMP, GINIEAST, GINIWEST, RTGRIDS,
  stratus.al.noaa.gov             RTIMAGES, RTNEXRAD, RTPTSRC, RTWXTEXT

  University of Georgia           CIMSS, GINICOMP, GINIEAST, GINIWEST, RTGRIDS,
  cacimbo.ggy.uga.edu             RTIMAGES, RTNEXRAD, RTPTSRC, RTWXTEXT

  University of Nebraska-Lincoln  CIMSS, GINICOMP, GINIEAST, GINIWEST, RTGRIDS,
  papagayo.unl.edu                RTIMAGES, RTNEXRAD, RTPTSRC, RTWXTEXT

  University of Wisconsin/AMRC    AMRC
  uwamrc.ssec.wisc.edu

  UCAR/Unidata/SCD                CIMSS, GINICOMP, GINIEAST, GINIWEST, RTGRIDS,
  adde.ucar.edu                   RTIMAGES, RTNEXRAD, RTPTSRC, RTWXTEXT
   

  We hope that the list of cooperating servers and the collection of
  datasets that they provide will grow as you, the Unidata McIDAS
  community, volunteer to provide access to your local data holdings
  through ADDE.  Please contact Unidata User Support for additional
  information.

- more tightly integrated support of NEXRAD Level III imagery data in
  all IMG* (IMGDISP, IMGPROBE, etc.) commands.

- station database enhancements that provide access to the increasing
  numbers of surface METAR and synoptic sites

- and more...


A complete list of changes contained in Version 7.80 can be found in:

McIDAS-X/XCD Release Notes 
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/mcidas/780/mcx/release_notes.html

Please send any/all questions related to installing this distribution
or upgrading from a previous distribution to Unidata User Support
at support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.

Tom Yoksas
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