<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Well that's embarrassing! I've fixed the "macosx.shtml" page to not mention ng4ex.  It should be enough to use your MacOS spotlight application or file finder to check for the existence of XQuartz and its version. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">I will update the documentation to reflect this.</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">On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 5:17 PM, Dave Allured - NOAA Affiliate <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dave.allured@noaa.gov" target="_blank">dave.allured@noaa.gov</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">Lijing,<div><br></div><div>It appears there is a mistake in the install instructions for Mac OS:</div><div><br></div><div>    <a href="http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Download/macosx.shtml" target="_blank">http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/<wbr>Download/macosx.shtml</a><br></div><br>This page tells you to run the ng4ex command before installing NCL.  Actually, you must complete steps 1 through 4 on the general NCL binary install page, before the ng4ex command will work.  ng4ex is part of NCL:<div><br></div><div>    <a href="http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Download/install.shtml" target="_blank">http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/<wbr>Download/install.shtml</a></div><div><br></div><div>When you click on the XQuartz icon, an xterm window is the correct result.  So it looks like you already installed XQuartz correctly.</div><div><br></div><div>Just finish the NCL binary install procedure, steps 1-4, especially setting the PATH variable.  Then go back to the specific instructions for Mac OS, starting with the ng4ex test.</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div></font></span><div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">--Dave</font></span><div><div class="h5"><br><div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 1:43 PM, Cheng Lijing <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chenglij@mail.iap.ac.cn" target="_blank">chenglij@mail.iap.ac.cn</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="line-height:1.5"><p style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Lucida Grande';font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;line-height:1.5;margin:0px"><br></p><div class="m_-6939975926049443782gmail-m_4275457001158929145mail_quote_D5E19A1AFF004DA39EF8BEA6619EC625" style="line-height:1.5"><div style="line-height:1.5"><p style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Lucida Grande';font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;line-height:1.5;margin:0px">Hi all</p><p style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Lucida Grande';font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;line-height:1.5;margin:0px"><br></p><p style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Lucida Grande';font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;line-height:1.5;margin:0px">    I’ve installed XQuartz (XQuartz-2.7.11.gmg) to my mac (OS X Yosemite 10.10.5).. However, when I type in the terminal window: </p><p style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Lucida Grande';font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;line-height:1.5;margin:0px"><span style="font-family:Menlo;font-size:11px;line-height:normal">ng4ex xy01n -clean</span></p><p style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Lucida Grande';font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;line-height:1.5;margin:0px">    The error comes out:</p>
<p style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Menlo;font-size:11px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;margin:0px;line-height:normal">-bash: ng4ex: command not found</p><p style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Lucida Grande';font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;line-height:1.5;margin:0px"><br></p><p style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Lucida Grande';font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;line-height:1.5;margin:0px">    How can I do with this? Since XQuartz is the first step installing NCL in Mac…I suppose my XQuartz has been installed corrected because when I click the icon of XQuartz, it comes out a xterm window.</p><p style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Lucida Grande';font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;line-height:1.5;margin:0px"><br></p><p style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Lucida Grande';font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;line-height:1.5;margin:0px">thanks</p><span class="m_-6939975926049443782gmail-HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><p style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Lucida Grande';font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;line-height:1.5;margin:0px"><br></p></font><p style="line-height:1.5;margin:0px"><font color="#888888"><font color="#333333" face="Lucida Grande">L</font></font>ijing</p></span></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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