<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Benita,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">I got a beta version of NCL 6.4.0 compiled under Windows 10 if you want to try it out.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">If you haven't done so in awhile, I first recommend downloading the latest "setup-x86.exe" program from <a href="http://x.cygwin.com/">http://x.cygwin.com/</a>, and running it with all the default options (it should detect what options you used before). This will cause Cygwin to update any packages that are old. You may want to search for "wget" and install this program if you don't already have it under Cygwin.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Once X/Cygwin is updated, you can download and install the test version of NCL 6.4.0.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><div class="gmail_default" style="">First, open a Cygwin Terminal window.</div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="">Then, if you have "wget", you can simply type:</div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""> wget ftp.ucar.edu:/pub/scd/haley/ncl_ncarg-6.4.0-beta.CYGWIN_NT-10.0-WOW_i686.tar.gz</div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="">If you don't have "wget", then you can get the file via a web browser. Point it at:</div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><a href="ftp://ftp.ucar.edu/pub/scd/haley/">ftp://ftp.ucar.edu/pub/scd/haley/</a><br></div>
<div class="gmail_default" style=""> </div><div class="gmail_default" style="">and you should see the file.</div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="">Once you have the file downloaded, use your file explorer window under Windows to move the file into your c:/cygwin/home/xxxxx directory, where "xxxx" represents your home directory.</div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="">You can install NCL wherever you want. If you want it in /home/benita/NCL/6.4.0-beta, then from the Cygwin terminal window type:</div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""> mkdir /home/benita/NCL<br> mkdir /home/benita/NCL/6.4.0-beta<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""> cd /home/benita/NCL/6.4.0-beta</div><div class="gmail_default" style=""> tar -zxvf ~/ncl_ncarg-6.4.0-beta.CYGWIN_NT-10.0-WOW_i686.tar.gz</div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="">You need to setenv NCARG_ROOT to the parent directory and make sure $NCARG_ROOT/bin is on your search path:</div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="">csh/tcsh:</div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""> setenv NCARG_ROOT /home/benita/NCL/6.4.0-beta</div><div class="gmail_default" style=""> setenv PATH $NCARG_ROOT/bin:$PATH</div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="">bash/sh/ksh:</div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""> export NCARG_ROOT=/home/benita/NCL/6.4.0-beta</div><div class="gmail_default" style=""> export PATH=$NCARG_ROOT/bin:$PATH</div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="">Put these two commands inside your .bashrc, .cshrc, or .bash_profile file in your home directory, so you don't have to type them every time you log in.</div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="">To quickly test that you are using the new NCL, type:<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""> ncl -V</div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><div class="gmail_default">It should say something like: "6.4.0-27July2016_0830".</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="">If you want to test whether you can run an NCL graphics program and have it display to an X11 window, then please see these instructions on how to start up an xterm:</div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><a href="http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Download/cygwin.shtml#RunCygwinX">http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Download/cygwin.shtml#RunCygwinX<br></a></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="">From the xterm, you should be able to type:</div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""> ng4ex xy01n -clean</div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="">or</div><div class="gmail_default" style="">
<p class=""><span class=""> ncl $NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclex/xyplot/xy01n.ncl</span></p><p class="">This will pop up a window with a sample XY plot. Click on this window with your left mouse button and it will go away.</p></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><div class="gmail_default">You can remove the "~/ncl_ncarg-6.4.0-beta.CYGWIN_NT-10.0-WOW_i686.tar.gz" file as you no longer need it.</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="">--Mary</div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 2:00 PM, Mary Haley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:haley@ucar.edu" target="_blank">haley@ucar.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Benita,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">I haven't compiled the test/development version of NCL under Cygwin yet. I just upgraded to Windows 10, but hopefully that won't be an issue with people who are running older versions of NCL.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">I will try to do NCL 6.4.0 on Cygwin this week. Please email me offline later this week to remind me, because I usually have 20 other things going on. :-)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">--Mary</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 7:12 AM, Tam, Benita (EC) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:benita.tam@canada.ca" target="_blank">benita.tam@canada.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">I would like to test out the latest version of NCL (6.4). I currently use NCL through Cygwin.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Thanks,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Benita<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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