Re: why isn't this colormap accepted?

All,

This is a heads up that the problem was that the environment variable
NCARG_COLORMAPS was being set to "". This enviroment variable allows
you specify a path for your own personal colormaps.

FYI: if you want to set this variable to your own path of colortables,
yet still keep the NCL color tables available, then do this:

   setenv NCARG_COLORMAPS $NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/colormaps:/your_own_path_here

You can then type:

    ncargpath colormaps

to make sure all of the paths you indicated are correct.

--Mary

On Mon, 5 May 2008, James F Drake wrote:

> Hi Mary,
>
>> There could be a couple of things wrong here.
>>
>> One is maybe your colormaps weren't installed with "read" permissions
>> for you. Do you have a sys admin that you can check with on this?
>>
>> Second is maybe the colormaps weren't installed for some reason.
>>
>> You can check the read permissions and whether the files were
>> installed by typing:
>>
>> ls -l `ncargpath colormaps`
>
> I think it has to do with how the path to the colormaps are getting set
> in my environment. When I run this command it just lists my working
> directory. But when my colleague does it lists a directory under
> $NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/colormaps/.
>
>> You can further check if the "WhViBlGrYeOrReWh" color map is there:
>>
>> ls -l `ncargpath colormaps`/WhViBlGrYeOrReWh.*
>>
>> You should see the files "WhViBlGrYeOrReWh.gp" and
> "WhViBlGrYeOrReWh.rgb".
>
> They are there.
>
>> If the "ncargpath" command files, then your NCARG_ROOT environment
>> variable may not be set correctly. It needs to be set to the root path
>> of where the NCL software is installed. For example "/usr/local" if
>> the software was installed to "/usr/local/bin", "/usr/local/include",
>> and "/usr/local/lib".
>
> The odd thing is that it seems to be. Otherwise "which ncl" points back to
>
> $NCARG_ROOT/bin/ncl.
>
> James
>
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