Images for the www

Bob G polarlow at GMAIL.COM
Sun Jan 28 14:25:22 EST 2007


Thanks all,

Are there any tutorials available on the net, pertaining to scripting
in Grads, automation for www imagery etc (especially for those IT
challenged)? The ones on the Grads website seemed rather broad in
nature.

On 1/26/07, Ricardo Hallak <hallak at model.iag.usp.br> wrote:
> Hi,
> CYGWIN is a tool which will allow run Grads in an automated switch under
> Windows. On the other hand, the user will have to learn the bash script
> language to achieve this goal. CYGWIN is a Windows ports of many of the
> popular GNU software tools, including the BASH and tcsh shells. It is better
> than run .bat scripts under DOS/Windows.
>
> The best choice is run Grads+Linux/Unix+Scripts for this kind of task.
>
> Ricardo
>
>
> On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 16:10:51 +0100, Alessandro Mandelli wrote
> > claudio cortes wrote:
> > > in windows the automating process is little difficult due to windows
> > > don't have a powerful scripting language than linux (bash), my firs
> > > attempts of automatic image generation with grads was a long time ago
> > > in windows, in windows you need to program large an tedious scripts,
> > > but in linux with few lines of code you have a complete automated
> > > process.
> >
> > This is not at all correct. The password here is "methodology".
> > The truth is that *grads* is not working correctly in a windows shell
> > because arguments are not passed correctly, and this is a very big
> > limiting factor to diffusion of grads in windows environment, set aside
> > the long standing "carriage return and line feed" bug.
> > There is no bash in windows, true, but there are many more available
> > IDEs in multiple languages. I personally use Linux, but refused to learn
> > shell scripting language which is all but intuitive for IT-challenged
> > like me.
> > I'm not advocating one platform or another. I'm simply measuring my
> > mileage, and YMMV.
>



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