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>From: Unidata User Support <support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >Organization: Unidata Program Center/UCAR >Keywords: Unidata McIDAS-X -XCD 7.70 Unidata McIDAS Users: Unidata McIDAS-X, -XCD 7.70 is now ready for download. Those sites that have already downloaded a 7.70 distribution are advised to regrab the distribution since there have been numerous bugfixes and enhancements in the last two weeks. Unidata McIDAS Version 7.70 incorporates the initial SSEC McIDAS 7.70 release; SSEC Fastrack releases #1 and #2; and numerous modifications and additions for direct ADDE support of the zlib-compressed, NOAAPORT NIDS radar images that will become freely available on January 1. Please review the Unidata McIDAS-X HomePage for complete information on this new release: Unidata McIDAS-X http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/mcidas/770/mcx These pages contain information on downloading, installing, and configuring the package. They should be read in their entirety and understood before attempting an installation. In particular, sites upgrading from a previous release of Unidata McIDAS should carefully read the Release Notes for 7.70: McIDAS-X/XCD Release Notes http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/mcidas/770/mcx/release_notes.html Changes of significance: o With the release of 7.70, Unidata will cease support of all releases before 7.60. We will continue to support 7.60, but we strongly recommend that you upgrade to 7.70 especially if you want to use the zlib-compressed NOAAPORT NIDS products that become freely available on January 1. o Because of modifications to the upper air MD file schema IRAB, McIDAS-XCD users must pay particular attention to the XCD section of the Release Notes for 7.70: Unidata McIDAS-X http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/mcidas/770/mcx/release_notes.html#xcdchanges IRAB was updated to allow for decoding of significant level upper air data up to and including 10 mb. An upgrade from XCD 7.6x to 7.70 will require that users: o stop XCD decoding of upper air data o update their schema registry file SCHEMA with the new version of IRAB o delete or rename the current day's existing mandatory level upper air MD files o restart XCD decoding of upper air MD files o Version 7.70 marks the debut of an ADDE cross section plotting routine, UACROSS, that can be used with observational upper air and model grid data. o The 7.70 Fkey menu and Tcl/Tk MCGUI system have been updated to support display of the CIMSS imagery that was added to the Unidata-Wisconsin datastream at the end of June. They will also work with the NOAAPORT NIDS products as soon as they become available. o The SSEC portion of the McIDAS Users Guide, the XCD Site Administrator's Guide, and the McIDAS-X Programmer's Reference Manual are available as PostScript (tm) files from the unix/770/docs directory of the password protected Unidata McIDAS FTP account. Users desiring hardcopy manuals will need to print these files locally. o As promised in the documentation for 7.60, some 41 old, non-ADDE applications have been dropped from 7.70. Twenty three more commands are scheduled for removal in the next release of Unidata McIDAS, Version 7.80. For details, please refer to: Unidata McIDAS-X: Sunset Items http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/mcidas/770/mcx/sunset.html o Bugfixes and/or enhancements to 7.70 will be handled throught the Addenda process described in: Unidata McIDAS-X: Version 7.70 Updates http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/mcidas/770/mcx/addenda.html Keep an eye on this page for announcements of Addenda availability. One of the first addenda to 7.70 will be focus on updating the Unidata Tcl/Tk GUI (MCGUI) to take advantage of ADDE. o The user name and password for access to the Unidata McIDAS FTP site is the same as it was in 7.60. If you have forgotten or misplaced this information, please contact Unidata User Support by eamil at the address listed below. Please send questions, comments, and any problems that you may have with this new release to Unidata User Support (support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx). Tom Yoksas **************************************************************************** < Unidata User Support UCAR Unidata Program < (303)497-8644 P.O. Box 3000 < support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Boulder, CO 80307 < ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- < Unidata WWW Service http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ < **************************************************************************** <
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