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<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you for that effort, Mary. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">It’s certainly reassuring that running NCL under Windows 10 is possible. All I need to do now is get it up and running on my machine. I’m sure that I have not got the correct packages installed at present, as I didn’t have original ones
for it automatically update. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Would you please be able to post a list of what packages you have installed? The command is cygcheck -c<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Cheers,<br>
Chris<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Dr Christopher Brierley,
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<pre>Good news for people wondering if they can still run NCL if they upgrade to<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>Windows 10:<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre><o:p> </o:p></pre>
<pre>I went through the admittedly torturous process of updating my Windows 7<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>system to Windows 10. I verified that I could still use the NCL 6.3.0<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>Cygwin binary that I had installed under Windows 7 and the older Cygwin.<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre><o:p> </o:p></pre>
<pre>After Windows 10 was installed, I upgraded X/Cygwin by downloading and<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>running the latest setup-x86.exe program from <a href="http://x.cygwin.com/">http://x.cygwin.com/.</a> This<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>took about 20 minutes and didn't have any problems. I didn't have to select<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>any new packages, because the setup program recognized what old versions of<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>software I had (like gcc and gfortran), and automatically upgraded all of<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>these for me.<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre><o:p> </o:p></pre>
<pre>One thing that is different is in how you start an X11 "xterm"<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>application. Running "xterm" is necessary if you want to run NCL scripts<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>that display the graphics to an X11 window.<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre><o:p> </o:p></pre>
<pre>If you always send your graphics to a file, like a PNG, PS, or PDF files,<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>then you can simply run NCL scripts from within a Cygwin Window.<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre><o:p> </o:p></pre>
<pre>To start an X11 xterm:<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre><o:p> </o:p></pre>
<pre> - Run Cygwin (a Cygwin Terminal window should pop up)<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre><o:p> </o:p></pre>
<pre> - Type "startxwin" inside this terminal window. A tiny X logo should<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre> show up on your task bar (on my screen in was in the lower right of the<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre> screen).<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre><o:p> </o:p></pre>
<pre> - Left-click on this X logo and a menu should pop up. Select "System<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre> Tools -> XTerm" and an xterm should start up.<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre><o:p> </o:p></pre>
<pre> - You can now run NCL scripts inside this xterm, including those that<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre> display their graphics to an X11 window.<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre><o:p> </o:p></pre>
<pre>--Mary<o:p></o:p></pre>
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