[ncl-talk] Problem with ncl in cygwin

[Lara Gunn]

Well that is interesting and here was i hoping i had just missed something
obvious.

I may write a work around, like just put another directory on the u drive!

That's
On Jul 28, 2015 7:33 PM, "David Brown" <dbrown at ucar.edu> wrote:

> I believe that this is more than just a problem with Cygwin. There is
> a currently open ticket (NCL-1539) with the title:
> "addfile and gsn_open_wks do not work with directory paths that have
> spaces in the names (even when escaped properly)"
>
> We need to look into this further.
>  -dave
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 11:49 AM, Lara Gunn <lara.n.gunn at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Rick
> >
> > Thanks for that reply but yes I thought of that already and it didn't
> work.
> > I also tried putting it in double quotes.
> >
> > Thanks though I am sure it will be along those lines when I eventually
> > figure it out.
> >
> > Lara
> >
> > On Tuesday, July 28, 2015, Rick Brownrigg <brownrig at ucar.edu> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I don't have a cygwin box to test this, but perhaps you need to escape
> the
> >> spaces, even though they appear between quotations (?):
> >>
> >> filename = "/cygdrive/u/Trading\ -\ Power/image"
> >>
> >> HTH...
> >> Rick
> >>
> >> On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 8:29 AM, Lara Gunn <lara.n.gunn at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hi
> >>>
> >>> I am currently running ncl 6.2.1 in cygwin and I am having an issue
> >>> writing to a folder on a mapped directory to my windows system.
> >>>
> >>> I can write a file to one directory (NOTE THIS CODE WORKS)
> >>>
> >>> filename = "/cygdrive/u/Meteorology/image"
> >>> wks = gsn_open_wks("png",filename)
> >>>
> >>> but not to this one
> >>>
> >>> filename = "/cygdrive/u/Trading - Power/image"
> >>>
> >>> I have tried a few things including writing the image to a different
> >>> directory then using a shell script to move it, but I am trying to set
> >>> something up that needs to be done fast so the move takes too long.
> >>>
> >>> Does anyone have an idea of how I create a image in a directory that
> has
> >>> spaces in the file anme please?
> >>>
> >>> Thanks for your time
> >>>
> >>>
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