Hi Boris,
re:
> I am a student of Dr. Ernesto Caetano, he is assigned to the Department of
> Physical Geography, Institute of Geophysics belonging to the Universidad
> Nacional Autonoma de Mexico. Both are working on the investigation of
> mesoscale convective systems in Mexico, using McIDAS, for this reason it is
> necessary to have access to this program.
>
> I want access to McIDAS X of the Unidata site for use at the University,
> specifically for the research work, required to receive it master's degree
> in Atmospheric Sciences.
>
> The use of McIDAS-X, is solely for academic research by graduate students.
>
> I agree not to redistribute any part of the program.
>
> LCA. Boris Vladimir Comi Gonzalez
> Centro de Ciencias de la Atmosfera
> Universidad Nacional Autonoma de MÃxico
Very good. I have added you (email address address@hidden) to the
list of non-.edu users allowed to download Unidata McIDAS. The procedure
to get the distribution is:
- get your system administrator to create the user 'mcidas' on a *nix
(Unix or Linux) system. Make sure that this user is allocated enough
disk space to download and build Unidata McIDAS-X (at least 500 MB)
- login to your machine as the user 'mcidas'
From a web browser:
- login to the Unidata website using the address that was allowed:
address@hidden
- go to the Downloads page for McIDAS
- click on the 'v2009 Unix Source Code Distribution' link
- download the following files to the home directory of 'mcidas':
mcunpack
mcinet2009.sh
mcidasx2009.tar.gz
- set execute permission on the script 'mcunpack':
chmod +x mcunpack
- define the McINST_ROOT environment variable:
C Shell users:
setenv McINST_ROOT /home/mcidas <- assuming that /home/mcidas is the
HOME directory for the user 'mcidas'
Bourne or BASH users:
export McINST_ROOT=/home/mcidas
Then follow the instructions for building McIDAS-X found in the Unidata McIDAS
Users Guide:
Unidata HomePage
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu
Software
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software
McIDAS
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/mcidas
Documentation and Training
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/mcidas/#documentation
McIDAS user's guide
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/mcidas/current/users_guide/toc.html
Follow the step-by-step instructions in:
Installing McIDAS-X on Unix or Mac OS X Workstations
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/mcidas/current/users_guide/InstallingMcIDAS-XonUnixorMacOSXWorkstations.html#63755
The instructions in 'Preparing the Workstation' may be pertinent to your systems
administrator.
The instructions in 'Preparing the McIDAS Account' are aimed at building Unidata
McIDAS-X.
Please let me know if you have any problems accessing the McIDAS distribution
or in building the package.
Cheers,
Tom
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