Running GrADS on Windows XP

[Morgan Silverman]

Arlindo,
Thank you so much. I downloaded Win 32 Superpack and am now able to open
my file successfully.
Sincerely,
Morgan

> On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 2:48 PM, Morgan Silverman <mlsilver at ncsu.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> I am trying to run GrADS on Windows XP with Cygwin. I downloaded grads-
>> 1.8sl11-xwin32.exe and am able to open GrADS so I see the display window
>> and prompt. I am unable to open my data file though.
>>
>>
> Because Win32 is built with cygwin, the cygwin1.dll version it is bundled
> with GrADS has to match the version of the other Cygwin you have
> installed.
> Version 1.8sl11-xwin32.exe is more than 5 years old and it may be tricky
> to
> get it to work with a newer version of Cygwin. Here are my
> recommendations:
>
> 1) Install the most recent v1.9-rc1 Win32 Superpack from sf.net
>
>
> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=161773&package_id=270750
>
>    You can find some more info about this release here:
>
>
> http://opengrads.org/wiki/index.php?title=Installing_GrADS_on_Microsoft_Windows
>
> 2) If you prefer to stay with v1.8, try deleting or renaming the
> "cygwin1.dll" that came with GrADS with the one in your cygwin release.
> Very
> important: *reboot* and start GrADS again.
>
>      Arlindo
>
> --
> Arlindo da Silva
> dasilva at alum.mit.edu
>


Morgan L. Silverman
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