Grads for Windows version 2 installation problems

[Arlindo da Silva]

On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 10:42 AM, Jennifer Adams <jma at cola.iges.org> wrote:

>
> ________________________________________
> 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.
>
>
Well, this mounting/unmounting only takes place if there is no cygwin
installed and it was introduced for a good reason. Without it you will have
problems with the "!" shell-escape command when cygwin is not installed, and
"/tmp" may not be found which may cause opendap to misbehave.  Have you
tested your binaries on a machine without a cygwin installation?

Your point is well taken, for a production environment the superpack is a
bit of an overkill, although I am not sure it has any major performance
drawback. This is the reason why I also include a bin and gex tarballs for
those users having a cygwin installation already. The superpack is intended
for those who do not want to bother with it.

      Arlindo

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Arlindo da Silva
dasilva at alum.mit.edu
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