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Unidata McIDAS-X v2008 Release Notes

Before Installing McIDAS-X

Please take the time to read this entire document; its important to understand the whole procedure before you begin. If you connect to ADDE remote servers at other sites, contact the site coordinators at those sites. The site coordinators can tell you if any server problems that might affect your system were noted since this upgrade was distributed.

This upgrade procedure is divided into four sections.

• Section I. Supported Software Configurations contains the software versions to use with McIDAS-X 2008.
• Section II. Before Installing McIDAS-X describes the Required and Optional Actions to perform before installing McIDAS-X 2008.
• Section III. Installing McIDAS-X explains how to install McIDAS-X 2008.
• Section IV. McIDAS-X Significant Changes describes the Required and Optional Actions to perform after installing McIDAS-X 2008.

Section I. Supported Software Configurations

Unidata McIDAS-X 2008 is supported on systems running Apple MacOS-X, HP-UX (by virtue of SSEC's support of this platform only), FreeBSD, IBM AIX, Linux (most varieties), SGI IRIX, Sun Solaris, and Microsoft Windows XP with Services for Unix. The software configurations compatible with McIDAS-X 2001 are listed in Chapter 1 of the Unidata McIDAS-X User’s Guide

Section II. Before Installing McIDAS-X

Complete all Required Actions below.

Core Software Changes

Review the changes to core software before installing McIDAS-X 2008. Section IV lists some of the significant changes since the last upgrade. Two ASCII text files, MAY08PRG.TXT and MAY08INQ.TXT, list all software changes made to McIDAS-X since the previous upgrade. A third file, MAY08OPN.TXT, lists all software bugs known at the time this upgrade was distributed. All these three files are provided with the distribution.

Required Action:

See Section IV of this document to review the significant changes made to core software. You can also place the three text files in the ~mcidas directory before installing the upgrade. To do so, complete the instructions in Obtaining McIDAS-X 2008 in Chapter 1 of the Unidata McIDAS-X User’s Guide.

Operating System and Compiler Changes

Beginning with this upgrade, the following changes were made to operating system and compiler versions that McIDAS-X is supported on.

• The Apple Mac OS X version that McIDAS-X is supported on was changed from 10.4 to 10.5 on both Intel and PPC. There are corresponding compiler changes to gfortran 4.3 and gcc 4.0.1 on both Intel and PPC (previously g77 3.4 and gcc 4.0 on Intel, and g77 3.4.3 and gcc 4.0 on PPC).
• Fedora 8 on 32- and 64-bit systems was added as a newly supported operating system.
• The SGI IRIX version that McIDAS-X is supported on remains at 6.5.21. The supported vendor compilers’ (SGI Fortran 77 and ANSI C) version remain at 7.4.2/3; the g77/gcc compilers’ version remain at at current release levels.
• Support for McIDAS-X on HP-UX was originally scheduled to be sunset with the 2006 upgrade, but was extended through 2009 due to the Australian Bureau of Meteorology agreeing to pay the support costs for three additional years and purchasing a new HP workstation for the MUG.

Required Action:

See the table in Installing McIDAS-X on Unix or Mac OS X Workstations for the list of operating system and compiler versions that McIDAS-X 2008 is supported on. We recommend that you update the operating systems and/or compiler versions on your McIDAS-X workstation(s) to those listed in the table.

Compatibility with -X Remote Servers and -XCD

McIDAS-X 2008 can run in a stand-alone mode. However, many commands can access data on other workstations (remote servers). Therefore, your McIDAS-X client workstations and the remote servers they access must be running compatible versions in order for all features to work as expected.

For example, the items below are dependent upon the McIDAS-X version that the client and/or server is running.

• The filing of METAR cloud coverage value FEW as a separate value (rather than combined with SCT) in ISFC-schema MD files, and the ability to list or plot the value with commands like SFCCON, SFCLIST, SFCMG and SFCPLOT works only if the client workstation is running McIDAS-X 2008 and the McIDAS-XCD server it accesses is running version 2008. See METAR Cloud Coverage Values in Section IV of this document for more information.
• McIDAS-X and -XCD 2008 contain modifications to enable the MOSRPT command to correctly find and list MOS forecasts for Alaskan stations. This new option works only if the client workstation is running McIDAS-X 2008 and the McIDAS-XCD server it accesses is running version 2008.

Required Action:

Coordinate upgrading your site’s McIDAS-X and -XCD systems according to your needs, considering the compatibility requirements listed above.

Disk Space

McIDAS-X disk space requirements increased, mainly due to the addition of new servers.

The overall disk space requirements for obtaining, building and installing McIDAS-X 2008 listed in the table below have not changed substantially from v2007. The compiler type (vendor or gcc/g77) used for each build are also listed.

Required Action:

Verify that you have sufficient disk space available to obtain, build, and install McIDAS-X 2008.

Section III. Installing McIDAS-X

If you need assistance with the upgrade please send email to Unidata McIDAS Support <support-mcidas@unidata.ucar.edu>.

Required Action:

Obtain and install McIDAS-X 2008 using the instructions in Chapter 1, Installing and Configuring McIDAS-X, in the Unidata McIDAS-X User’s Guide.

Section IV. McIDAS-X Significant Changes

Complete all Required Actions below. Optional Actions are only for your consideration.

METAR Cloud Coverage Values

The table below shows the previous and current definitions.

Reported Value	Old (pre-2008) CC1 and CC2 Values	New (2008 and later) CC1 and CC2 Values
CLR	0	0
FEW	1	5
SCT	1	1
BKN	2	2
OVC	3	3

The splitting out of FEW into its own value in the ISFC-schema MD files means that you can now display or list its values separately from SCT. For SFCPLOT and SFCCON, you will simply see plot or contour values of 5. For SFCLIST with OPT=CLOUD or OPT=ALL, the cloud coverage values are listed in 8ths so they follow definitions of 0/8ths=CLR, 1/8th=FEW, 3/8ths=SCT, 5/8ths=BKN and 8/8ths=OVC. For SFCMG, the cloud coverage symbols will be open (unfilled) for CLR, 1/4 filled for FEW, 1/2 filled for SCT, 3/4 filled for BKN and completely filled for OVC.

Required Action:

Adjust any macros, scripts, BATCH files, F Key menus, McBASI programs and SKE entries that depend on cloud coverage values to use the new set of values described above.

Future McIDAS-X Software Upgrades

McIDAS-X for XP Remote Servers and PAE

Due to a change in the Windows XP service installation, the ADDE remote server installation script (e.g., mcinet2005.sh) no longer works on XP workstations with Service Pack 2 (SP2) or later. Therefore, we are NOT including a remote server installation script for McIDAS-X for XP with this 2008 upgrade. (We also did not include it in the 2006 and 2007 upgrades.)

If your McIDAS-X for XP workstation is already running the remote server (e.g., from version 2004 or 2005), you can continue to run it even after installing McIDAS-X for XP version 2007. Please note, however, that if you uninstall it (with a command similar to sh ./mcinet2005.sh uninstall mcadde) you will NOT be able to reinstall it because the failure occurs during the install portion of any version of the mcinet script. Therefore, we strongly recommend that you do NOT uninstall the remote server on your McIDAS-X for XP workstations at any time unless you're sure you will not need to run it again in the future.

Required Action:

If you are currently running an ADDE Remote Server on your McIDAS-X for XP workstation, do NOT uninstall it. If you do so, you will not be able to reinstall it. As noted above, we did not include a 2006 or 2007 version of the McIDAS-X for XP ADDE remote server because of this problem.

Other Modifications

The modifications below require no special action.

Data Files

The following changes were made to files in the ~mcidas/data directory.

Required Action:

Merge these modifications with all local copies of the data files.

Local Code

Compile and link all local code after installing the upgrade. Listed below are some of the software and structural changes most likely to affect your local code.

• The MTSAT modules mtstadir2.for and mtstaget2.for were enhanced to transfer multi-banded data. They, along with navigation routine nvxgeos.dlm, were updated to correctly file and access the satellite subpoint.
• The Meteosat modules msgtadir2.for and msgtaget2.for and calibration module kbxmsg.dlm were updated for the effective radiance values now being sent in the HRIT signal. The calibration block increased in size to accommodate flags for each band to identify whether effective or spectral radiance was used to create the area.
• Start, stop and status options were added to mclisten.c. Also, the binary created for mclisten.c was changed from mclisten to mclisten.k.
• The MSG calibration alpha and beta values in module msgtutil.for were updated for some IR bands to match EUMETSAT’s values.
• The AVHRR Level 1b server lv1baget.cp and utility function lv1butil.c were updated to work with AVHRR FRAC data from MetOp-A.
• A gfortran flag was added to the installation script mcinst.sp and the compiling script mccomp.sh. The following modules were also updated to correct gfortran compiler errors and warnings. At this time the MUG supports gfortran builds only on the Mac OS X platforms.

  cur2lalo.for	fsdxutil.for	gdirserv.fp
  ggetserv.fp	grdlist.pgm	imgcha.pgm
  imgdisp.pgm	imgmag.pgm	imgplot.pgm
  imgremap.pgm	mocount.for	m0dslook.for
  m0gsort.for	m0ll_lin.for	uacross.pgm

• The following modules are new or were updated for new GRIB and GRIB2 data:

  grib2NavLookup.txt	grib2NCEPModels.txt
  grib2Parameters.txt	gbtbpds001.2v131
  gbpbpds001.av1	gbtbpds001.bv1

• Development work has begun on a Java-based BUFR server. The server, bufrks.cp, was added, but is not currently being used.
• The behavior of the area servers was changed to match that of other satellite data servers. The area servers now call a subserver. The following modules are either new or have been updated for this new design:

  adirserv.fp	agetserv.fp	addefunc.c
  areaadir.cp	areaagetsub.for	areaadirsub.for
  areaaget.cp

• The Open MTP modules omtpadir2.for and omtpaget2.for were updated to correctly file the actual start day and time into the area directory.
• A check was added to the MODIS calibration module kbxmods.dlm so multiple LUTs are not generated for the same area file.
• The calling sequence for the following modules was updated to correctly pass the third argument to Mcdaytimetosec as an int. These changes corrected 64-bit issues.

  gvaradir.cp	gvaraget.cp	lv1butil.c
  makefile	mccomp.sh	mcmkhelp.c
  modsks.cp	MSAT.c	POES.c
  poesadir.cp	poesaget.cp	SDIUtil.c
  sfcdata.c	tclcomp.sh	txtgserv.cp

• The following modules were updated so flags written to GeoTIFF files are compatible with the ArcGIS software package:

  gennavblk.for	geo.pgm	geolat.for
  geotaput.cp	grdimg.pgm	grdnav.for
  grib2func.c	imgremap.pgm	leo.pgm
  llcart.for	maknav.pgm	planet.c
  plarad.for

• The new command mcservl.cp was written to emulate the task done by inetd. mcservl allows remote access to local data and can be set to listen for requests on any open port. The advantage of using mcservl is that it does not require root privileges for port numbers greater than 1023. Commands run from remote clients must use either the environment variable MCCOMPRESS or the keyword MCC= to set the port for sending a request to mcservl. The module ddesub.c was also updated for this enhancement.
• In preparation for the launch of GOES-O/14 and GOES-P/15, the resolution for band 6 was changed from 8km to 4km in GVAR.c.
• A value of 5 is now being used for the cloud cover classification of FEW reported in METAR observations. The following modules were updated for this

  DCISFC	mcsfcdat.h	sfcdata.c
  sfclist.c	sfcmg.c	sfccon.pgm
  sfcplot.pgm

• The following include files were deleted and combined into a single include file, named odt.h:
• The following modules were updated to correct platform dependent errors found in the ADT (Advanced Dvorak Technique) command:

  adt.c	mccomp.sh
  mcidas.sh	nvxabis.dlm
  nvxkalp.dlm	nvxmsat.dlm
  nvxmsg.dlm	nvxmsgt.dlm
  nvxmtst.dlm	odt.h
  odtatcfoutputfile.c	odtauto.c
  odtautomode1.c	odtautomode2.c
  odtbulletinoutput.c	odtcoords.c
  odtdata.c	odtdiagnostics.c
  odtexterror.c	odteyecloudtemp.c
  odtfft.c	odtfreememory.c
  odtfuncs.c	odtgetwindprofile.c
  odtgrid.c	odtgsdomain.c
  odtgsforecastfile.c	odtgshistory.c
  odtgsIRimage.c	odtgslocation.c
  odtgsmiscopts.c	odtgsscenetypes.c
  odtgssstvalue.c	odtgsstartstr.c
  odtgstopovalue.c	odtgsversion.c
  odthistory.c	odthistorybullfmt.c
  odthistorycomment.c	odthistorydelete.c
  odthistoryinsertrec.c	odthistorylistfmt.c
  odthistorynextrec.c	odthistorywrite.c
  odtinitialize.c	odtintensity.c
  odtintensityest.c	odtloadIRimage.c
  odtmcerror.c	odtmcgrid.c
  odtmcidas.c	odtmcinput.c
  odtmessages.c	odtoutput.c
  odtreadtopofile.c	odtscene.c
  odtscenemap.c	odtscenetype.c
  odtsetdatetime.c	odtsst.c
  odttopo.c	odtwarmeyetemp.c
  odtwinds.c

McIDAS-XCD v2008 Release Notes

The McIDAS-XCD upgrade procedure is divided into four sections.

• Section I. Before Installing McIDAS-XCD describes the actions to be performed before installing McIDAS-XCD 2007.
• Section II. Installing McIDAS-XCD describes the installation procedure for McIDAS-XCD 2007.
• Section III. McIDAS-XCD Post-Upgrade Procedures describes the actions to be performed immediately after upgrading to McIDAS-XCD 2007 from a previous version.
• Section IV. McIDAS-XCD Changes lists the McIDAS-XCD software changes that have been made since the last upgrade.

Section I. Before Installing McIDAS-XCD

Complete all Required Actions below.

Compatibility with McIDAS-X

The McIDAS-XCD 2008 software package was tested and supported by SSEC on Enterprise Linux 4.0. As with McIDAS-X 2008, SSEC recommends that you run your Enterprise Linux workstation in 32-bit mode. Unidata tests McIDAS-XCD on Sun Solaris SPARC 5.9 and Fedora 64-bit Linux.

Required Action:

Section II. Installing McIDAS-XCD

If you need assistance with the installation, please contact Unidata McIDAS Support <support-mcidas@unidata.ucar.edu>.

The GRIB Server is available in -X 2008 and -XCD 2008 with the use of a MySQL database. GRIB1 and GRIB2 files from the NOAAPORT data stream have been tested and are fully supported.

Required Action:

1. Obtain and install McIDAS-X 2008. Upgrade with additional modifications for the installation of McIDAS with the MySQL database.

   If you are planning on using the new GRIB server with -XCD, you must install MySQL on the -XCD machine, and then build and install McIDAS-X v2008 with MySQL support.

Section III. Configuring McIDAS-XCD

This section lists the actions to be performed immediately after upgrading to McIDAS-XCD 2008 from a previous version. If you are installing McIDAS-XCD for the first time on a workstation, then everything in this section will have been done during the installation procedure.

New GRIB2 Configuration File

The GRIB filer has been modified to allow the -XCD Administrator to specify which GRIB2 messages should be discarded and not decoded by -XCD. GRBFILER.CFG was modified to read the configuration file (NOGRIB2.CFG) that specifies which GRIB2 messages should be discarded. The functionality of NOGRIB2.CFG is similar to NOGRIB.CFG, which specifies which GRIB1 messages to discard.

Required Actions:

1. As user oper, create a backup copy of your current GRBFILER.CFG file, and copy the new version of the file into ~oper/mcidas/data.

   Type: cp ~oper/mcidas/data/GRBFILER.CFG ~oper/mcidas/data/GRBFILER.CFG.BAK
   Type: cp ~oper/mcidas/xcd2008/data/GRBFILER.CFG ~oper/mcidas/data

2. Edit GRBFILER.CFG and make any appropriate changes to reflect your McIDAS-XCD configuration.
3. Stop and restart -XCD for the changes to take effect.

Changes to the Synoptic and METAR Decoders

The synoptic and METAR decoders were updated for NIL= data lines coming across the NOAAPORT data stream that were filling up rapid access files and overwriting real observations in MD files. The NIL= data lines are now ignored when creating the synoptic and METAR MD files.

In order to make the rapid access files larger to accommodate the NIL= data lines in the synoptic and METAR data, you must create new SAO METAR and synoptic rapid access files.

Required Actions:

1. Shut down -XCD and wait for all associated processes to exit.
2. Start a McIDAS-X session under the oper account.
3. Run the following BILDTEXT commands to delete the SAOMETAR.RAP, SAOMETAR.RAT, SYNOPTIC.RAP, and SYNOPTIC.RAT files and create new SAOMETAR.RAP and SYNOPTIC.RAP files. The new SAOMETAR.RAT and SYNOPTIC.RAT files will be created as soon as the next associated SAO/METAR or SYNOPTIC message is received.
   
   (Note: Running the BILDTEXT command deletes the rapid access files, making the previous text data unavailable with the OBSRPT, SFCRPT, and SYNRPT commands. Current MD files are unaffected by the BILDTEXT command.)

   Type: BILDTEXT INIT SAOMETAR.RAP SAOMETAR.RAT 7000 6 C4 36 1 80 SAOMETAR X 48
   Type: BILDTEXT INIT SYNOPTIC.RAP SYNOPTIC.RAT 6500 2 IDN 16 3 80 SYNOPTIC X 48

4. Restart -XCD for the changes to take effect.

Changes to the NGM MOS Decoder

The NGM MOS decoder and configuration file were updated to include the FOAK WMO header for Alaskan NGM MOS stations. These stations were also added to the STNDB.CORE file released in McIDAS-X Version 2008. The addition of these Alaskan stations put the total number of stations over the existing limit of 600 stations allowed in the NGM MOS rapid access text file and MD files.

In order to decode MOS forecasts from these Alaskan stations and you must update the NGM MOS configuration file. To account for the larger number of NGM MOS stations, you must create a new NGM MOS rapid access text file.

Required Actions:

1. As user oper, create a backup copy of your current NGMMOS.CFG file and copy the new version of the file into ~oper/mcidas/data.

   Type: cp ~oper/mcidas/data/NGMMOS.CFG ~oper/mcidas/data/NGMMOS.CFG.BAK
   Type: cp ~oper/mcidas/xcd2008/data/NGMMOS.CFG ~oper/mcidas/data

2. Shut down -XCD and wait for all associated processes to exit.
3. Start a McIDAS-X session under the oper account.
4. Run the following BILDTEXT command to delete the NGMMOS.RAP and NGMMOS.RAT files and create a new NGMMOS.RAP file. The new NGMMOS.RAT file will be created as soon as the next NGM MOS message is received. New NGM MOS MD files will be generated with 2000 columns the next time a new NGM MOS MD file is created, usually the next day after 0 UTC.
   
   (Note: Running the BILDTEXT command deletes the rapid access files, making the previous text data unavailable with the OBSRPT and MOSRPT commands. Current MD files are unaffected by the BILDTEXT command.)

   Type: BILDTEXT INIT NGMMOS.RAP NGMMOS.RAT 2000 4 C4 4 12 80 NGMMOS X 48

5. Restart -XCD for the changes to take effect.

Changes to the Surface Observation Schema

The filing of METAR cloud coverage value FEW as a separate value (rather than combined with SCT) in ISFC-schema MD files was added for this upgrade, and changes to the surface decoder and schema have been made. No changes were made to the surface configuration file (ISFCDEC.CFG). See METAR Cloud Coverage Values in Section IV for more information.

Required Actions:

1. From a McIDAS-X window in the oper account, register the new ISFC schema.

Type: SCHE DCISFC

Local Copies of GRIB Table Files

In version 2005, the gbtbpds001.* GRIB table files were moved from McIDAS-XCD to McIDAS-X for use with the GRIB decoder. These files now reside in ~mcidas/data and several files have been updated in 2008.

If your -XCD workstations have any local copies in ~oper/mcidas/data or in ~mcadde/mcidas/data, they should be removed so that the updated files in McIDAS-X 2008 (located in ~mcidas/data) are used.

Required Actions:

1. Search for local copies of the gbtbpds001.* files and remove them.
2. If any files were removed, stop and restart -XCD for the changes to take effect.

Section IV. McIDAS-X and -XCD Changes

This section lists the changes made to McIDAS-X and -XCD source, data, script, and batch files since the last upgrade (version 2007).

Source Modules Changes in -XCD

The table below lists changes to McIDAS-XCD source modules since the previous upgrade (version 2007).

File	Description of Modifications
bufr.h	Added and updated the prototypes for BUFR filing and decoding.
dmbin.pgm Mcgrb2dec.c	Updated with changes related to the new NOGRIB2.CFG data file.
m0dcdsfc.for	If observations indicate a NIL= reading, then do not file into the MD file, but do file into the rapid text file. Implemented FEW=5 for cloud coverage in the ISFC schema.
m0ngmmos.for	Updated to allow for up to 2000 NGM MOS stations.
m0saodec.for m0syndec.for	If observations indicate a NIL= reading, then do not file into the MD file, but do file into the rapid text file.
m0shpdec.for	Updated to put the actual (not nominal) time into the HMS key for SHIP/BUOY readings.
Mcbufrdecoder.c	Moved all BUFR decoding functions into this module. Added a branch to account for differences between BUFR Edition 4 and previous editions. The filer now names BUFR files according to edition number (*.bufr2, *.bufr3, and *.bufr4) and according to http://www.emc.ncep.noaa.gov/mmb/data_processing/data_dumping.doc/table_1.htm
Mcgrbbfrdec.c	Put in a hard-coded value of Center 7, Subcenter 14 to properly identify MOS GRIB1 files, because XCD GRIB tables are currently not designed to handle subcenters. Moved BUFR decoding functions to Mcbufrdecoder.c. Adjusted call to Mcbufrtofilename to include edition number of the BUFR file.
obtgserv.cp wtxgserv.cp	Changed the type of time_t variables to int as needed for 64-bit machines.

Source Module Changes in -X

The table below lists changes to McIDAS-X source modules since the previous upgrade (version 2007) that are used by -XCD.

File	Description of Modifications
mcgrib.h	Added prototypes and structures for NOGRIB2.CFG functionality.
xcdgrib.c	Updated with changes related to the new NOGRIB2.CFG data file. Added case statement for GRIB1 236 that was improperly being assigned as Mercator when it should be Lambert Conformal.

Data File Changes in -XCD

The table below lists changes to McIDAS-XCD data files since the previous upgrade (version 2007).

File	Description of Modifications
GRBFILER.CFG	Added an entry for the default name of the NOGRIB2.CFG file.
NGMMOS.CFG	Added WMO entries for FOAK (Alaskan NGM MOS messages). Increased the number of columns in the MD file from 600 to 2000 to account for the additional Alaskan entries.
NOGRIB2.CFG	New file - similar to NOGRIB.CFG, this allows for entries of GRIB2 data to be discarded.
XCDDEC.VER	Updated -XCD version number to 2008.

Data File Changes in -X

The table below lists changes to McIDAS-X data files since the previous upgrade (version 2007) that are used by -XCD.

File	Description of Modifications
bufrVersion2TableA.txt	New file - entries for BUFR Edition 2 Table A to allow for better naming of BUFR files by -XCD. Based on http://www.emc.ncep.noaa.gov/mmb/data_processing/data_dumping.doc/table_1.htm
bufrVersion3TableA.txt	New file - same as Edition 2, but needed as a placeholder in the code.
bufrVersion4TableA.txt	New file - entries for BUFR Edition 4 Table A. Different from previous editions as standard types are divided into international subtypes as defined by the WMO. Source: BufrCommon-11-2007.pdf from http://www.wmo.ch
DCISFC	Implemented FEW=5 for cloud coverage in the ISFC schema.
gbtbpds001.2v131	New file - needed for North American Regional Reanalysis (NARR) GRIB1 files.
gbtbpds001.av1	Added description to index 140 for NARR GRIB1 files.
gbtbpds001.bv1	Added default navigation entries for GRIB1 geographic ID numbers 225, 236, 238, 239, and 24..
grib2NavLookup.txt	Added navigation lines for RUC-USLC13KM, NCE-USLCAWI4, NDF-AKPS, RTM-AKPS, SREF-AKPS45KM, and SREF-USME datasets.
grib2Parameters.txt	Corrected MSLM unit name. Added physical atmospheric property entries and GOES-12 forecast satellite imagery products. Added several heating rate parameters.
STNDB.CORE	Updates to the core station database file.

Script and Batch File Changes in -XCD

The table below lists changes to McIDAS-XCD scripts and batch files since the previous upgrade (version 2007).

File	Description of Modifications
_mcidasxcd.mk buildrelease	Added entries for NOGRIB2.CFG, REBILDRAP.BAT, REGROUP.BAT, and XCDBUFR.BAT.
REBILDRAP.BAT	New file - rebuild the Rapid Access Pointer files.
REGROUP.BAT	New file - recreates GROUPS.DAT and COUNTRY.DAT files.
RMXCDDEC.BAT	Added entries for removing NAMMOS, NGMMOS, and GFSMOS .RAP and .RAT files. Added entries for removing GRIB and BUFR files. Removed entry for FASTXT.DAT file.
xcd_init	Updated version number.
XCDADDE.BAT	Added entry to run XCDBUFR.BAT file.
XCDBUFR.BAT	New file - creates the new BUFR datasets.
XCDDEC.BAT	Updated BILDTEXT command for NGMMOS to use 2000 stations. Changed the default installation to add all countries by running the SIGCO ADD ALL command. Changed number of reporting entries to 6 for SAOMETAR.RAP and 2 for SYNOPTIC.RAP, so that users can see all of the text data (including NIL=).
XCDGRB2.BAT	Added RTM-AKPS, NDF-AKPS, and MGWM (MultiGrid Wave Model) GRIB2 datasets.
XCDGRIB.BAT	Added new MOS-ALL dataset.
xcdscour	Updated to properly delete newly named files by the BUFR filer.

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