[ncl-install] Do man pages exist for NCL?

[Mary Haley]

On Jan 8, 2013, at 12:11 PM, Craig Tierney - NOAA Affiliate wrote:

> Mary,
> 
> Is it that man pages are deprecated in current and future versions on NCL?  If that is true and I can tell my user that.  I am looking for supportable configurations.

Yes, somewhat. We haven't bothered keeping them current, because most of them are man pages for things we haven't changed for years. We don't add new man pages for things like "ncl", "ncl_filedump", and "ncl_convert2nc" because we have online documentation for all of this. So, in that sense, yes, they are deprecated.

We do have it on our list of things to do to add better accessible documentation from NCL, so you can look up functions from "ncl" itself, without having to go online.

--Mary

> 
> Thanks,
> Craig
> 
> On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Mary Haley <haley at ucar.edu> wrote:
> Hi Craig,
> 
> We do have man pages, but we haven't included them with the distribution for awhile because they are mostly for the old NCAR Graphics routines that you call from C and Fortran, like "CPCLAM".  We don't have a man page for ncl itself.
> 
> Do you want the man pages for the NCAR Graphics routines? If so, I can tar them up.  Or, you can download the source code, and the man pages are scattered about in the source tree directory. Just look for directories called "man":
> 
> ./common/man
> ./ncarg2d/man
> ./ncarview/man
> ./ngmath/man
> 
> 
> --Mary
> 
> On Jan 7, 2013, at 11:46 AM, Craig Tierney - NOAA Affiliate wrote:
> 
> > I just had a user point out that we do not have the NCL man pages installed on our system.  We install using the binary packages and I do not see a man directory, just bin, lib, and include.  Do man pages exist for NCL and if so, where can they be downloaded?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Craig
> >
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