20010102: McIDAS 7.7 compressed transfer problems (cont.)

>From: Eirh-Yu Hsie <address@hidden>
>Organization: CU/CIRES
>Keywords: 200101021555.f02Ftlo18427 McIDAS-X 7.7 MCCOMPRESS

Hsie,

re: compress might not be in the "standard" location
>cumulus:[42]% which compress
>/usr/bin/compress

OK, this directory will be searched for compress.

re: potential problem in ~mcidas.mcenv

>cumulus:[44]% cat ~mcidas/.mcenv
>umask 002
>MCHOME=/home/mcidas/${OSTYPE}
>MCDATA=${MCHOME}/workdata
>MCPATH=${MCDATA}:${MCHOME}/data:${MCHOME}/help
>MCGUI=${MCHOME}/bin
>MCTABLE_READ="${MCDATA}/MCTABLE.TXT"
>MCTABLE_WRITE="${MCDATA}/MCTABLE.TXT"
>PATH=${MCGUI}:$PATH
>export MCDATA MCPATH MCGUI MCTABLE_READ MCTABLE_WRITE PATH
>cd $MCDATA
>
>I do not see anything wrong???

What is the environemnt variable OSTYPE defined as in this context?

For the remote server to work, the HOME directory for the remote server
user, mcadde, will need to be set to the correct directory.  For instance,
if you are going to run the remote server on a Solaris SPARC machine,
and if your Solaris SPARC install for McIDAS-X is:

/home/mcidas/solaris/(bin|data|...)

then the home directory for 'mcadde' in /etc/passwd needs to be set to be
/home/mcidas/solaris.  Also, you must copy (or link) ~mcidas/.mcenv to
~mcidas/solaris/.mcenv and create the directory
~mcidas/solaris/mcidas/data.  This way, the McIDAS environment for the
remote ADDE server user will be self consistent.

Tom