[ncl-install] Problem unzipping/untarring NCL setup file

[David Book]

Mary and Daniel . . .

To continue our discussion, I have two questions.

First question: Earlier I pointed out a peculiarity in my prompts. The 
prompt when I am in my home directory reads

Book at Book-Enigmatics ~ rather than Book

When I do a cd .. the prompt reads  Book at Book-Enigmatics /home 

When I do another cd .. the prompt reads Book at Book-Enigmatics /

This is the same as the prompt in my home directory, except that a slash 
has replaced the tilde.

If I do an ls -a command here, I see all the NCARG directories (tmp, home, 
etc, var, bin, and so on). The files that were zipped in that installation 
file that I downloaded have been installed in Book at Book-Enigmatics /
rather than  my home directory Book at Book-Enigmatics ~  !  I think this 
explains why I was unable to gunzip the .gz file or untar the .tar file 
using the full pathname prescribed in the instructions, namely 

gunzip /cygwin/home/Book/ncl_ncarg-6.1.0.CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64_i686.tar.gz

Although I tried to follow the instructions scrupulously, somehow I have 
managed to create an unorthodox directory structure. 

This probably also explains why I have been unable to carry out the next 
step in the instructions, "Set up your environment to run NCL." In my home 
directory (Book at Book-Enigmatics ~) tried to use nedit to insert export 
NCARG_ROOT=/usr/local and export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH in my .bashrc 
file, but the system couldn't even find nedit (it can find it when I am in 
the second, "lower" directory Book at Book-Enigmatics / ).

I'm afraid I'm only going to have more trouble unless I fix this. I suspect 
I will have to reinstall CYGWIN and NCL. Is this correct?

Second question: My reason for installing NCL in the first place (which 
necessitated first installing CYGWIN) was because I wanted to run an old 
program, written in Fortran 90, that uses Autograph to produce plots. I 
didn't want to rewrite my program and I thought that it would be easy to 
download the NCAR graphics package. (Boy, was I wrong!)

Bujt now that I have downloaded that package, I can't find any of the 
Autograph routines (AGSETF, EZXY,  etc.) in the libraries. Are they 
included? If not, how can I get the Autograph package, either in source 
form or binaries?

David

David L. Book 
President, Enigmatics, Inc. 

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 From: "Mary Haley" <haley at ucar.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2013 1:35 PM
To: davidbook at enigmatics.com
Subject: Re: [ncl-install] Problem unzipping/untarring NCL setup file

David,

You need to be careful about when you use "~/" and just "/".

If you use ~/ in front of a path, then it will automatically prepend your 
home directory to it, which is /home/Book

So, you *don't* want to do this:

>  tar xvf 
~/cygwin/home/Book at Enigmatics-Book/ncl_ncarg-6.1.0.CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64_i686.
tar

This should work:

cd /usr/local
tar -xvf /home/Book/ncl_ncarg-6.1.0.CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64_i686.tar

or this:

cd /usr/local
tar -xvf ~/ncl_ncarg-6.1.0.CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64_i686.tar

Again, "~/" is just a substitution for your home directory, which appears 
to be "/home/Book/".

--Mary

On Jan 29, 2013, at 1:23 PM, David Book wrote:

> Daniel . . .
> 
> Thanks again. Here's what I did and what I got:
>                                                         
> 
> Book at Book-Enigmatics ~
> $ cd /usr/local  
>                                                                  
> Book at Book-Enigmatics /usr/local
> $ tar xvf 
~/cygwin/home/Book at Enigmatics-Book/ncl_ncarg-6.1.0.CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64_i686.
tar
> tar: 
/home/Book/cygwin/home/Book at Enigmatics-Book/ncl_ncarg-6.1.0.CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WO
W64_i686.tar: Cannot open: No such file or directory
> tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
> 
> Book at Book-Enigmatics /usr/local
> $ tar xvf ~/cygwin/home/Book/ncl_ncarg-6.1.0.CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64_i686.tar 
        tar: 
/home/Book/cygwin/home/Book/ncl_ncarg-6.1.0.CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64_i686.tar: 
Cannot open: No such file or directory
> tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
> 
> 
> David
> 
> 
> David L. Book 
> President, Enigmatics, Inc. 
> 
> 
> From: "David Book" <davidbook at enigmatics.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2013 12:02 PM
> To: "Daniel Packman" <pack at ucar.edu>
> Subject: Re: [ncl-install] Problem unzipping/untarring NCL setup file
> 
> Daniel . . .
> 
> Here's what I did and what I got:
> 
> $cd 
> 
> Book at Book-Enigmatics ~
> $ pwd
> /home/Book
> 
> Book at Book-Enigmatics ~
> 
> 
> So the directory is named "Book," but the prompt says 
"Book at Book-Enigmatics ~" What does this mean? 
> 
> 
> David
> 
> David L. Book 
> President, Enigmatics, Inc. 
> 
> 
> From: "Daniel Packman" <pack at ucar.edu>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2013 10:30 AM
> To: davidbook at enigmatics.com
> Subject: Re: [ncl-install] Problem unzipping/untarring NCL setup file
> 
> 
> It sounds like you need to sort out just what your home directory looks 
like
> within cygwin. If you just do a "cd" with no arguments, you should be 
taken
> to your home directory. If you then do a "pwd", the path to your home 
directory
> should be echoed.
> 
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