<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default">Since none of these files exist, then you need to create it in your home directory.</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">On a Mac system, I recommend creating the ".bash_profile" file (note it is not ".bashrc_profile as you typed it in your email) in your home directory, and then add the lines to set NCARG_ROOT and PATH as documented.</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">You can create the file in your home directly by typing one of these two commands:</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace">vi $HOME/.bash_profile</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">or </div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace">vi ~/.bash_profile</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">"vi" is a UNIX editor. You can use whatever UNIX editor you are comfortable with.</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">The two lines you add should look something like this:</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">
<p class="gmail-p1"><font face="monospace, monospace"><span class="gmail-s1">export</span><span class="gmail-s2"> NCARG_ROOT=<i>/xxx/yyy/zzz</i><br></span><span class="gmail-s1">export</span><span class="gmail-s2"> PATH=$NCARG_ROOT/bin:</span><span class="gmail-s4">$PATH</span></font></p><p class="gmail-p1"><span class="gmail-s4">Where "<font face="monospace, monospace">/xxx/yyy/zzz</font>" should be replaced with the path where you installed NCL.</span></p><p class="gmail-p1">Save the file, and then open a new Terminal window and type:</p><p class="gmail-p1">ncl -V</p><p class="gmail-p1">to see if it worked.</p><p class="gmail-p1"><span class="gmail-s4">--Mary</span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="font-size:small"><span class="gmail-s4"><br></span></p></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 4:58 PM, Rex Tracy <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rtracy1@san.rr.com" target="_blank">rtracy1@san.rr.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I have tried to follow the instructions for installing NCL on Mac but run into trouble when looking for the appropriate file to edit to add the NCL to the PATH search line. I do understand that I can interactively change the PATH to search via a terminal command, however, when looking for the file to edit [ .profile, .bashrc or .bashrc_profile ], I find that the file is not present under the latest OSX version ( 10.12 ) within my home directory. Can you help me identify the location of this file ?<br>
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Thank you,<br>
Dr. Rex Tracy<br>
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