[ncl-install] trouble with ncl utility programs

[David Brown]

Both these utilities depend on having a version of csh available (could be tcsh or maybe there are others that would work, but they need to be soft-linked to /bin/csh). From the error message
I would guess that /bin/csh is not running correctly (or may not even exist). You could try just just executing
csh or /bin/csh at the command line. It probably won't work, but this should confirm the problem. If this is the case, then probably you can find help through cygwin channels.
I do note that on the cygwin install page (http://www.cygwin.com/install.html) it notes that  "When installing packages for the first time, setup*.exe does not install every package."
Maybe you just need to specify csh (or tcsh) when you run install. 

If this does not help, let us know.
 -dave





On Apr 4, 2014, at 1:03 PM, "Hawkins, James" <James.Hawkins at QinetiQ-NA.com> wrote:

> I've installed cygwin/ncl on my windows 7 box. NCL seems to work just fine however I'm not able to use the following two utilities: ncl_convert2nc and ncl_filedump. When I execute at the cygwin command line I get the following error message:
> 
> bash: /usr/local/bin/ncl_filedump: /bin/csh: bad interpreter: Permission denied
> 
> Any advice?
> Thanks beforehand.
> Jim Hawkins
> 
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