Re: QUESTION: Installing NCL under Windows/Cygwin/X

On Mon, 6 Aug 2007, Leiker, Patrick wrote:

> I'm downloading the NCL for use in a windows environment. To do this, I
> had to first download the cygwin/X.
>
> I downloaded the xorg-x11-base package only. I have questions regarding
> the following sections described in the cygwin/x setup page.
>
> 5. Set up your environment to run NCL
>
> Is this step necessary for me since I downloaded the xorg-x11-base
> package only? If so, I located four different bashrc files, located in
> the following folsers:
>
> "bash.bashrc" C:\cygwin\etc
>
> ".bashrc" C:\cygwin\etc\skel
>
> "bash.bashrc" C:\cygwin\etc\defaults\etc
>
> ".bashrc" C:\cygwin\etc\defaults\etc\skel
>
>
> Which file do I modify?

Hi Patrick,

What you really want to do is set up a new .bashrc file in your home
directory on Cygwin. This should be something like
/cygwin/home/leiker, or whatever your user name is. This should have
been created for you automatically by the Cygwin installation. Please
look in your home directory for some ".*" files:

    cd ~
    ls -a

and hopefully one of these files will have a reference to PATH
or path in it. This should be the file you edit and add the path
stuff to.

You don't have to use c-shell, but if you plan to run the "ncargex"
or "ncargf77" scripts, then you will need c-shell, and so step
6 is a good idea. You can still do this step even if you don't plan
to use c-shell. It won't hurt anything, I don't think.

--Mary

>
> The instructions say to insert the export lines after the last reference
> to PATH. In the ".bashrc" files, I can only find one reference to PATH,
> which follows:
>
>
>
> # export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH
>
>
>
> Do I insert the export statements after that? Do I need to include #
> characters prior to each export statement?
>
>
>
> Also, I'm not sure if I'm going to use C-Shell. Do I need to set up
> C-Shell as indicated in step 6?
>
>
>
> Thank you,
>
>
>
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>
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Received on Mon Aug 06 2007 - 15:08:38 MDT