Fwd: Grads for Windows version 2 installation problems

[Jennifer Adams]

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> From: "Huddleston, John" <Huddleston at cira.colostate.edu>
> Date: November 13, 2009 10:35:59 AM EST
> To: "jma at cola.iges.org" <jma at cola.iges.org>
> Subject: FW: Grads for Windows version 2 installation problems
>
> Jennifer, this is one of two emails that the GrADS list did not send
> out this morning. John
>
> ________________________________________
> From: Huddleston, John
> Sent: Friday, November 13, 2009 7:27 AM
> To: GRADSUSR at LIST.CINECA.IT
> Subject: RE: Grads for Windows version 2 installation problems
>
> Jason
>
> Arlindo's suggestion to use the installer is best if you are not
> "systems" oriented with Windows.
>
> The binaries you are trying to use are based on the pure UNIX code;
> so, there is no mounting and unmounting of a "C:\Cygwin" directory.
> For production work on a windows system, these binaries are better
> qualified.
>
> In order to use these, create a directory, much like GrADS
> installation does automatically, and put that directory in your
> PATH. See Start-Settings-Control Panel-System. Go to the Advanced
> TAB, select Environmental Variable and edit the PATH to include the
> new directory where you have deposited the .EXE and .DLL files. Open
> a CMD window.  You must have a XWIN server running locally. This
> comes with the GrADS installation; however, if you use grads with
> the -lbc options (production) no XWIN server is required and grads
> will produce your images with the printim command.
>
> See http://views.cira.colostate.edu/nasa for thousands of satellite
> images created with GrADS. An example control script is shown below
> which creates the Aura OMNO2G.003 NO2 images.
>
> John Huddleston
>
> 'open no2g.ctl'
> 'c'
> 'set font 0'
> 'set strsiz 0.12 0.12'
> 'set display color white'
> 'set gxout grfill'
> 'set parea 0.5 9.5 0.1 8.5'
> 'set csmooth on'
> 'set cint 15'
> 'set clevs 0.0e+15 1.0e+15 2.0e+15 3.0e+15 4.0e+15 5.0e+15 6.0e+15
> 7.0e+15 8.0e+15 9.0e+15.0e+15 11.0e+15 12.0e+15 13
> .0e+15 14.0e+15'
> 'set ccols 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30'
> 'set rgb 16 0 0 165'
> 'set rgb 17 0 0 255'
> 'set rgb 18 0 65 255'
> 'set rgb 19 0 125 255'
> 'set rgb 20 0 190 255'
> 'set rgb 21 0 255 255'
> 'set rgb 22 66 255 189'
> 'set rgb 23 132 255 123'
> 'set rgb 24 205 255 50'
> 'set rgb 25 255 239 0'
> 'set rgb 26 255 175 0'
> 'set rgb 27 255 110 0'
> 'set rgb 28 255 46 0'
> 'set rgb 29 239 0 0'
> 'set rgb 30 165 0 0'
> 'set cmin 0.0e+15'
> 'set cmax 14.0e+15'
> 'set lon -180 180'
> 'set grads off'
> 'draw string 1.0 0.60 OMI-Aura_L2G-
> OMNO2G_2006m1231_v003-2008m0105t001916'
> 'draw string 8.0 0.60 CIRA/NASA'
> 'd maskout(no2,no2-0.0001)'
> 'draw title \ColumnAmountNO2_ColumnAmountNO2_20061231\'
> 'cbarn2 .90 1 9.8 4.3'
> 'printim ColumnAmountNO2_ColumnAmountNO2_20061231_World.gif gif x832
> y624'
> 'quit'
> ________________________________________
> From: GRADSUSR at LIST.CINECA.IT [GRADSUSR at LIST.CINECA.IT] On Behalf Of
> Jason Snyder [jmssnyder at UCDAVIS.EDU]
> Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2009 9:15 PM
> To: GRADSUSR at LIST.CINECA.IT
> Subject: Grads for Windows version 2 installation problems
>
> I am having some problems with installing and running GrADS version
> 2 for
> windows.  I downloading both the following zip files cygwin.zip
> cygwin-dlls.zip
> and unzipped them.  What goes next?  When I open Grads version 2 I
> get the
> following message:
>
> "This applicaiton has failed to start because cygX11-6.dll was not
> found"
>
> I saw this in the folder cygwin-dlls, which is from the cygwin.zip.
> How
> can I get this problem to function properly?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jason

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Jennifer M. Adams
IGES/COLA
4041 Powder Mill Road, Suite 302
Calverton, MD 20705
jma at cola.iges.org



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