grads on win XP

[See Hai Ooi]

Hi Monica,

     Thank you.  I shall try to follow your suggestion
to see whether this problem can be resolved or not.

     Best regards.

Ooi


--- Monica Ionita <monica.ionita at METEO.INMH.RO> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> So with computer A everything is O.K. No
> cygwin....everything goes great.
>
> Computer B:
> Many user, although just one administrator.  I still
> think the problem is
> Cygwin.
> You said that Cygwin on computer B was installed by
> user E, but the data and
> work area are in user O's subdirectory.
> So it should not give a conflict.
> Even though there is just one administrator when a
> user installs a new
> software or something like this most of the files
> will be on his account,
> which I guess is the case now. If user E installed
> Cygwin and user O
> installed Grads it should not be any problems,
> because everyone of them has
> is on share on that computer and I think Cygwin
> can't overwrite the dll
> files of grads.
>
> It is just my own opinion.
>
> I had problems on a computer like your C computer. I
> was most of the time
> using that computer and had full control on it.
> I had Cygwin and Grads installed on C. It was
> impossible to work with grads
> while Cygwin was installed on my computer.
> If you try to delete Cygwin there is still one
> problem. You need first to
> unistall it and then erase from Registry directory
> everything that is
> related to Cygwin, otherwise Grads won't work.
> It may sound a little bit complicated, but I spent
> almost one week to figure
> out what was the problem.
> I hope this will help you and my advice is to try to
> delete Cygwin and
> reinstall Grads. In my case this was the only
> option.
> Good luck!
> Monica
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: See Hai Ooi <axl419 at YAHOO.COM>
> Date: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 3:23 am
> Subject: Re: grads on win XP
>
> > > Hi Monica,
> > >
> > >   I did the following testings of the above
> problem
> > > in three different computers:-
> > >
> > > (i) Computer A (Dell pentium for use by one
> person
> > > only)
> > >     Operating system : Window XP (in directory
> C);
> > >     GrADS: version 1.8SL9 (in directory C);
> > >     an x-server installed in directory C ;
> > >     no cygwin installed and tmp (not temp)
> > > subdirectory in C;
> > >     data and workarea for GrADS in directory D.
> > >
> > >     GrADS works beautifully !
> > >
> > > (ii) Computer B (NEC pentium for multiusers with
> one
> > > administrator and only one directory C (=> no
> further
> > > partition) )
> > >      Operating system : Window XP;
> > >      GrADS version 1.8SL9 and same x-server
> installed
> > > by user O in directory C after entering his own
> user
> > > signon slot;
> > >      cygwin installed by user E in C after
> entering
> > > the administrator's slot;
> > >      no tmp subdirectory created in C;
> > >      data and workarea for GrADS in user O's
> > > subdirectory;
> > >
> > >      GrADS also works beautifully !
> > >
> > > (iii) Computer C (Acer pentium used mainly by
> one
> > > person and shared occasionally by others)
> > >
> > >      Operating system: Window XP;
> > >      GrADS version 1.8SL9 and same x-server
> installed
> > > in directory C;
> > >      cygwin installed in C;
> > >      tested with tmp and no tmp subdirectory
> created
> > > in C;
> > >      data and workarea for GrADS in directory D.
> > >
> > >      Same problems occurred with/without tmp
> > > subdirectory in C as shown in the following two
> > > examples:-
> > >
> > > Example (1):- [not for netcdf file as in example
> 2]
> > > -----------
> > >     open d:\ncep\4898\data\hgt25.ctl
> > >     scanning description file:
> > > d:\ncep\4898\data\hgt25.ctl
> > >     open error: data file type invalid
> > >     --> the invalid description file record is:
> > >     -> dtype grib
> > >     the data file was not opened.
> > >
> > > Example (2):-
> > > ------------
> > >     (a) sdfopen d:\cdc\slp\slp.1979.nc
> > >         d slp/100
> > >         the chart plotted appeared OK !
> > >
> > >     but when I did
> > >     (b) sdfopen d:\cdc\slp\slp.1979.nc
> > >         set lon 100
> > >         set lat 5
> > >         set t 1 3
> > >         d slp/100
> > >
> > >         the graph plotted is OK but grads window
> > > shows the following display (this does not
> appears in
> > > computers A and B):-
> > >
> > > gxstart=0, gxstop=1, gystart=0, gystop=1
> > > gzstart=0, gzstop=1, gtstart=0, gtstop=3
> > > gxstart=0, gxstop=1, gystart=0, gystop=1
> > > gzstart=0, gzstop=1, gtstart=0, gtstop=3
> > > gxstart=0, gxstop=1, gystart=0, gystop=1
> > > gzstart=0, gzstop=1, gtstart=0, gtstop=3
> > >
> > >    I am puzzled ! Hope you, Derek or anyone else
> can
> > > help to throw some light on this outcome before
> I try
> > > to delete cygwin and reinstall GrADS in computer
> C as
> > > you did to test the new outcome.
> > >
> > >    Thank you and best regards.
> > >
> > > Ooi
>


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