<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">[I posted this to the ncl-install group, but felt it was important enough to cross post to ncl-talk as well.]</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:small">Good news for people wondering if they can still run NCL if they upgrade to Windows 10:<br></div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-size:small">I went through the admittedly torturous process of updating my Windows 7 system to Windows 10. I verified that I could still use the NCL 6.3.0 Cygwin binary that I had installed under Windows 7 and the older Cygwin.</div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-size:small">After Windows 10 was installed, I upgraded X/Cygwin by downloading and running the latest setup-x86.exe program from <a href="http://x.cygwin.com/" target="_blank">http://x.cygwin.com/</a>. This took about 20 minutes and didn't have any problems. I didn't have to select any new packages, because the setup program recognized what old versions of software I had (like gcc and gfortran), and automatically upgraded all of these for me.</div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-size:small">One thing that is different is in how you start an X11 "xterm" application. Running "xterm" is necessary if you want to run NCL scripts that display the graphics to an X11 window.</div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-size:small">If you always send your graphics to a file, like a PNG, PS, or PDF files, then you can simply run NCL scripts from within a Cygwin Window.</div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-size:small">To start an X11 xterm:</div><div style="font-size:small"><ul><li>Run Cygwin (a Cygwin Terminal window should pop up)<br><br></li><li>Type "startxwin" inside this terminal window. A tiny X logo should show up on your task bar (on my screen in was in the lower right of the screen).<br><br></li><li>Left-click on the this X logo and a menu should pop up. Select "System Tools -> XTerm" and an xterm should start up.<br><br></li><li>You can now run NCL scripts inside this xterm, including those that display their graphics to an X11 window.</li></ul><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div>--Mary</div><div><br></div></font></span></div></div>
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