[ncl-install] Pb calling scripts

[Mary Haley]

Hi Gilles,

To run NCL scripts, you want to invoke the NCL script name on the UNIX
command line, and not the NCL command line.

For example, on the UNIX command line, type:

    ncl essai

Is your script indeed called just "essai", or is it "essai.ncl"? If
it's the latter, then use:

    ncl essai.ncl

If you really want to run NCL interactively, then to load a script
you need to use the "load" command:

   ncl 0> load "essai"

Or, if it's essai.ncl:

   ncl 0> load "essai.ncl"


--Mary


On Thu, 15 May 2008, Gilles Bellon wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have installed the last version of not OPeNDAP-enabled NCL binaries (NCL 5.0.0 32-bit binary for i686 chips for LINUX, compiled with gcc 3.x) on my Linux box and everything seems to work fine except that
> I can't run scripts.
> Here is the error message, essai.ncl being a script that I have no trouble running line by line:
>
> ncl 0> ncl essai
> fatal:syntax error: line 0 before or near essai
> ncl essai
> --------^
>
> fatal:error in statement
>
> What did I do wrong?
> Thanks,
>
> Gilles Bellon
> APAM
> Columbia University
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