[gradsusr] OpenGrads on Windows

[Maat, Herbert ter]

Dear Arlindo,

I run OpenGrads only on Windows without any cygwin-installation. The whole package is running great and I will ignore the classic-directory :-)

Kind regards,
Herbert ter Maat

From: gradsusr-bounces at gradsusr.org [mailto:gradsusr-bounces at gradsusr.org] On Behalf Of Arlindo da Silva
Sent: donderdag 3 mei 2012 2:25
To: GrADS Users Forum
Subject: Re: [gradsusr] OpenGrads on Windows

On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 3:15 AM, Maat, Herbert ter <Herbert.termaat at wur.nl<mailto:Herbert.termaat at wur.nl>> wrote:
Thanks for the reply.

I have the following problems on running OpenGrads 2.0.1 on my Windows machine. After installation a directory is (OpenGracs\Classic)

Which package exactly are you installing? Unless you are a cygwin user already, stick with the superpak.
>> I have used the superpack-installation file (grads-2.0.1.oga.1-win32_superpack.exe)

is created with 4 directories who are linking to certain directories in the Contents directory. Am I correct that these links do not function? Well, at least these links are not working on my machine.


Yes, they should not work unless you are working from a cygwin shell; these wrappers are written in perl, for windows I've rewritten them in visual basic (see scripts above Contents/.) If you are not a cygwin user, you need not worry about these details. Just install the Windows superpak, let it automatically add the "grads" bin directory to your path and you should be good to go, either from the [start] menu, from a icon on your desktop or from the windows command line (cmd.exe).


>> Just to make sure... the links that I am referring to are the bin, data, scripts and test_data directories. I opened them all in a text editor and they all start with !<symlink>.  When I double-click on one of these (e.g. bin)  then Windows ask me which program I want to use to open the file. If these symbolic links don't function anymore, then that is okay for me but I thought that these symbolic links are a nice addition :-)



Those links would only be functional under cygwin.  (It should work if you start the sh.exe or tcsh.exe shells included.)  For non-cygwin users, ignore the Classic/ directory.

Is GrADS working for you otherwise?

  Arlindo



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