<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Dawit,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">The problem is that you are trying to execute NCL commands directly from a UNIX terminal window. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">In order to execute NCL commands, you must use a UNIX editor to create a file with NCL commands in it, and then you run "ncl" on this file to execute the commands. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">If you have never used a UNIX editor, then I suggest that you google for something like "what are the best MacOS editors" or "what are the best UNIX editors".</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">You should also look at NCL's "editor enhancements" page, which provides some color-coding for NCL scripts that can be *really* useful for new users:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><a href="http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/editor.shtml">http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/editor.shtml</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Several editors listed on this page (Atom, TextWrangler, Sublime Text) are popular on MacOS systems. The most widely known UNIX editors that are pretty much available on any UNIX system are "vi" or "vim". It can useful to know basic vi and vim commands in case you end up on a system where your favorite UNIX editor is not available.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Once you find a UNIX editor that you want to learn, and you have it installed on your system, then you can write your first "NCL script" using this editor.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">For example, open a UNIX editor and copy-and-paste these six lines into the editor window:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><font face="monospace, monospace">print("Hello world")</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><font face="monospace, monospace">i = 10</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><font face="monospace, monospace">; This is a comment statement</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><font face="monospace, monospace">j = i + 20</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><font face="monospace, monospace">print("i = " + i)</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><font face="monospace, monospace">print("j = " + j)</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Save the file as "myscript.ncl" and exit the UNIX editor.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Now, on the UNIX command line, you can "execute" these commands in your file by typing:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><font face="monospace, monospace">ncl myscript.ncl</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">You should see the following output:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> Copyright (C) 1995-2017 - All Rights Reserved</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> University Corporation for Atmospheric Research</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> NCAR Command Language Version 6.4.0</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> The use of this software is governed by a License Agreement.</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> See <a href="http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/">http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/</a> for more details.</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace">(0)<span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Hello world</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace">(0)<span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>i = 10</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace">(0)<span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>j = 30</font></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><div class="gmail_default"><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline">Since you are new to NCL, I highly recommend that you read the the NCL User Guide. This is an extensive document, but even just reading the first few chapters will be helpful:</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><a href="http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Manuals/NCL_User_Guide/">http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Manuals/NCL_User_Guide/</a></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Good luck,</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 class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 9:01 AM, Dawit Abebe <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dawit.kan@gmail.com" target="_blank">dawit.kan@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Dear Mary,<div><br></div><div>I am having a problem running the “load” command. Through step-by-step use of “cd" and “ls” commands I confirmed that the files that wanted to load (i.e. <font color="#ff2600">gun_code.ncl, </font><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><font color="#ff2600">gsn_csm.ncl</font>, and <font color="#ff2600">contributed.ncl</font>) are there is in the “csm”directory. According to the command “which nil” , I am operating from myncl/bin/ncl (see below). I think, I should change this part of the path to myncl/lib instead of myncl/bin to reach to the files I wanted to load. Is my logic correct? If that should be done, how should I change this path? If my assumption is wrong all together, kindly get me to right direction.</span></div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Thank you so much</span></div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Dawit</span></div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div><div><p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><font color="#ff2600">Dagemawes-MacBook-Pro:~ dawitabebe$ source activate myncl</font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><font color="#ff2600">(myncl) Dagemawes-MacBook-Pro:~ dawitabebe$ load "$NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/<wbr>nclscripts/csm/gsn_code.ncl"</font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><font color="#ff2600">-bash: load: command not found</font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><font color="#ff2600">(myncl) Dagemawes-MacBook-Pro:~ dawitabebe$ conda info --envs</font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><font color="#ff2600"># conda environments:</font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><font color="#ff2600">#</font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><font color="#ff2600">myncl * /Users/dawitabebe/miniconda3/<wbr>envs/myncl</font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><font color="#ff2600">root /Users/dawitabebe/miniconda3</font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;min-height:13px"><font color="#ff2600"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"></span><br></font></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><font color="#ff2600">(myncl) Dagemawes-MacBook-Pro:~ dawitabebe$ which ncl</font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><font color="#ff2600">/Users/dawitabebe/miniconda3/<wbr>envs/myncl/bin/ncl</font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><font color="#ff2600">(myncl) Dagemawes-MacBook-Pro:~ dawitabebe$ </font></span></p></div><div>……………………………………………………………………..</div><div><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Mar 22, 2017, at 5:13 PM, Mary Haley <<a href="mailto:haley@ucar.edu" target="_blank">haley@ucar.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="m_6752955883082378628Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Ipsita,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">You need both triangle.c and triangle.h.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">But, you really should only have to build NCL from source code as a last result.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Since you are on a 64-bit Ubuntu system, you can use "conda" to install NCL, which is as easy as:</div><div class="gmail_default"><pre style="font-size:small"> conda create -n <i>ncl_stable</i> -c conda-forge ncl=6.4.0
source activate <i>ncl_stable</i></pre><pre style="font-size:small"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Please see our "conda" page for information on how to install miniconda, which gives you conda:</font></pre><pre><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Download/conda.shtml" target="_blank">http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/<wbr>Download/conda.shtml</a><br></font></pre><pre><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">--Mary</font></pre><pre><br></pre></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 1:56 AM, Ipsita Putatunda <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ipsita.putatunda@gmail.com" target="_blank">ipsita.putatunda@gmail.com</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">Dear all,<br> I need to built triangle in my NCL version.<br>Right now am using x86_64, Ubuntu 15.10 with gcc version 5.2.1 20151010 and NCL version 6.3.0<br><br>Which source code shall I use here to copy triangle.c or triangle.h ?<br>Could you please let me know stepwise to build triangle in my NCL version.<br><br>Thanks in advance,<br>Ipsita<br></div>
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