<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Glenn,<div><br></div><div>Just as a bit of background: ncl_convert2nc is a csh (C-shell) script that creates a temporary NCL script and then executes it with parameters derived from the command line. I am not sure exactly what is wrong but I suspect it is something to do the shell. The script is looking for /bin/csh. If you execute 'which csh', does it find /bin/csh?</div><div>If I explicitly use another shell to execute the script (on my mac - I don't have access to a Cygwin system at the moment), e.g.:</div><div><br></div><div>bash $NCARG_ROOT/bin/ncl_convert2nc <some data file></div><div><br></div><div>I get an error that seems related to what you are seeing:</div><div><br></div><div><div>ncl_convert2nc: line 63: onintr: command not found</div><div>ncl_convert2nc: line 75: syntax error near unexpected token `('</div><div>ncl_convert2nc: line 75: `set idirs = ()'</div></div><div><br></div><div>If I instead run it using csh:</div><div><br></div><div>csh $NCARG_ROOT/bin/ncl_convert2nc <some data file></div><div><br></div><div>I get no error. Maybe that will shed some light on your problem.</div><div> -dave</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Jun 22, 2011, at 9:33 AM, Comiskey, Glenn wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="580095309-22062011"><font size="2" face="Arial">Hi,</font></span></div>
<div><span class="580095309-22062011"><font size="2" face="Arial"></font></span> </div>
<div><span class="580095309-22062011"><font size="2" face="Arial">Have just installed
Cygwin/X and NCL Version 6.0.0 (CYGWIN), and setup the environment as per the
instructions for installing and running NCL under Cygwin/X (Windows) (<a href="http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Download/cygwin.shtml">http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Download/cygwin.shtml</a>),
but when running ncl_convert2nc it reports 'Badly placed
()'s':</font></span></div>
<div><span class="580095309-22062011"><font size="2" face="Arial"></font></span> </div>
<div><span class="580095309-22062011"><font size="2" face="Arial">$ ncl
-V<br>6.0.0<br></font></span><span class="580095309-22062011"><font size="2" face="Arial">$ ncl xy04n.ncl</font></span></div>
<div><span class="580095309-22062011"><font size="2" face="Arial"> Copyright (C)
1995-2011 - All Rights Reserved<br> University Corporation for Atmospheric
Research<br> NCAR Command Language Version 6.0.0<br> The use of this
software is governed by a License Agreement.<br> See </font><a href="http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/"><font size="2" face="Arial">http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/</font></a><font size="2" face="Arial"> for more
details.<br></font></span><span class="580095309-22062011"><font size="2" face="Arial">$ ncl_convert2nc nmww3.t00z.grb #Note: This is a
GRIB v2 file.<br>Badly placed ()'s.<br></font></span><span class="580095309-22062011"><font size="2" face="Arial">$ ncl_convert2nc
CentralAtlantic.wind.grib #Note: This is a GRIB v1 file.<br>Badly
placed ()'s.<br></font></span><span class="580095309-22062011"><font size="2" face="Arial">$ ncl_convert2nc akw.t12z.grib.grib2 #Note: This is
a GRIB v2 file.<br>Badly placed ()'s.<span class="664473215-22062011"><font color="#0000ff"> </font></span></font></span></div>
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<div><span class="580095309-22062011"><font size="2" face="Arial">Haven't been able to
find anything in mail archives or on <span class="664473215-22062011"><font color="#0000ff">the </font></span>Internet to explain what the fault
is.</font></span></div>
<div><span class="580095309-22062011"><font size="2" face="Arial"> </font></span></div><font size="2" face="Arial"></font>
<div align="left"><span lang="en-gb"><font size="2" face="Arial">Kind
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