>From: Anthony Rockwood - MSCD Meteorology <address@hidden> >Organization: Metropolitan State College >Keywords: 199908260254.UAA08341 McIDAS 8 bit Tony- >Thanks for the instructions. "Make all" ran for awhile, but then bombed ? Well, I goofed because I didn't realize you had downloaded the binary installation. I'm rebuilding now and will let you know the outcome. >McIDAS does start. I get both the Text and Command window and an Image >window. I can run commands from the command line, but I get no menu. >McMENU UNIDATA.MNU results in 'can't find a visual'. And running GUI >started some bizarre process that took 100% of the cpu. The problem is that your X server is set up for 24 bit mode. You need to reconfigure it for 256 colors. If you can't get Kurt to do this, I can step you through it. Wait til the GEMPAK build finishes first though. Don
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