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* If you want to use your Cumulus 1 data folder with MX, and you use decimal commas in your Cumulus 1 data, you will need to edit the '.ini' files to change, in each stored value, the decimal commas into periods/full stops, because Cumulus MX always expects periods/full stops in .ini files regardless of the locale in use. Look up the individual .ini files in this Wiki as there are a few lines where the representation of a date is different between Cumulus 1 and Cumulus MX, so you should edit those lines for the files in your MX data folder. | * If you want to use your Cumulus 1 data folder with MX, and you use decimal commas in your Cumulus 1 data, you will need to edit the '.ini' files to change, in each stored value, the decimal commas into periods/full stops, because Cumulus MX always expects periods/full stops in .ini files regardless of the locale in use. Look up the individual .ini files in this Wiki as there are a few lines where the representation of a date is different between Cumulus 1 and Cumulus MX, so you should edit those lines for the files in your MX data folder. | ||
* The '.txt' files in the data folder will work with both Cumulus 1 and MX - assuming you are using the same decimal and list separators in MX as you used in Cumulus 1 (i.e. the same locale). | * The '.txt' files in the data folder will work with both Cumulus 1 and MX - assuming you are using the same decimal and list separators in MX as you used in Cumulus 1 (i.e. the same locale). | ||
* Any web tags on your web pages or in your scripts that use date and/or time formatting to change the default will need to be edited. See the [[Webtags]] page for information on how to change these. | * Any web tags on your web pages or in your scripts that use date and/or time formatting to change the default will need to be edited, and you may find this difficult because certain formatting characters (e.g. H or M) have different meanings when they appear in isolation in an output format to what they mean when combined with others (e.g.H:mm or 'd M'). See the [[Webtags]] page for full information on how to change these, and ask in the support forum if you have difficulty. | ||
* Your "Cumulus.ini" file must start with a capital letter for MX, and all the characters used within the configuration file must be within ASCII range, Cumulus 1 on Windows is not fussy about case in the file name. Cumulus MX adds further items to this file, but you do not need to change the contents of it for moving in either direction except in regards to the NOAA reports. Those from Cumulus 1 and MX are set up differently because of different codes to output a month format parameter as the change to date/time formats in webtags also applies to NOAA report file format lines in Cumulus.ini. Also the [FTP site] section in Cumulus.ini will only work in MX with 'site' entirely in lower case, so if it is different in your copy, edit that. | * Your "Cumulus.ini" file must start with a capital letter for MX, and all the characters used within the configuration file must be within ASCII range, Cumulus 1 on Windows is not fussy about case in the file name. Cumulus MX adds further items to this file, but you do not need to change the contents of it for moving in either direction except in regards to the NOAA reports. Those from Cumulus 1 and MX are set up differently because of different codes to output a month format parameter as the change to date/time formats in webtags also applies to NOAA report file format lines in Cumulus.ini. Also the [FTP site] section in Cumulus.ini will only work in MX with 'site' entirely in lower case, so if it is different in your copy, edit that. | ||
*(Other file names within MX will be as supplied in the file that you download, or as Cumulus MX decides when it creates the file). | *(Other file names within MX will be as supplied in the file that you download, or as Cumulus MX decides when it creates the file). | ||