On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Timlin, Michael <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mtimlin@illinois.edu">mtimlin@illinois.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Arlindo,</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">We are running grads 2.0a3 (but not opengrads) and I would
love to be able to use gxyat. The improved fonts would be great. </span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Is there anyway to use it in grads as a direct replacement
for printim? </span></font></p></div></div></blockquote><div>Yes, you may be able to write a "<a href="http://printim.gs">printim.gs</a>" script which saves a metafile and uses gxyat with a "!". Gxyat syntax is similar but not identical to printim. Performance. of course, is much better with the "gxyat" extension which does not involve writing any metafile.</div>
<div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Can I use the stand alone gxyat with regular grads meta files? </span></font></p>
</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal">
<font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Where
can I download the stand alone version?</span></font></p></div></div></blockquote><div>Unfortunately, you need to download the full opengrads bundle and grab the "gxyat" executable from the bin/ directory. We do not provide a separate download at this time. (If it complains about missing .so libraries, see the troubleshooting section of the INSTALL file for a simple fix. )</div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">What all is involved with opengrads installation? </span></font></p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>It is trivial. Untar it, and set your path. That is it, nothing else to set, or extra files to download. More info here:</div>
<div><br></div><div> <a href="http://opengrads.org/wiki/index.php?title=Installing_the_OpenGrADS_Bundle">http://opengrads.org/wiki/index.php?title=Installing_the_OpenGrADS_Bundle</a></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"> Would it
break anything that is currently working in grads or is it a superset of
grads? </span></font></p></div></div></blockquote><div>It is a superset. As a rule, if you do not invoke the extensions, you get the regular GrADS from COLA. The main philosophy of the OpenGrADS project is to complement the work of Jennifer and Brian at COLA . There is no incompatibility that I am aware of.</div>
<div> </div><div>Having said that, I need to mention that we have different builds, based on slightly different baselibs. There is only OpenGrADS executable (called "grads") which can read all the regular GrADS formats, including OPeNDAP URLs; there is no separate "gradsdap". It can also read NetCDF-4/HDF-5 datasets, a feature that will be available in an upcoming COLA release as Jennifer mentioned recently. All OpenGrADS builds also enable the Athena GUI and ships with sample GUI scripts. If you type "nomads" from the Contents/ directory you a browser for real time GFS, NAM, RUC and Wave forecasts from NCEP, give it a try.</div>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"> Does it keep up with the grads releases in a timely manner? </span></font></p>
</div></div></blockquote><div>On a best effort basis, we try to closely follow COLA releases. The latest version (v2.0.a7.oga.3) is caught up with COLA. However, OpenGrADS is carried out by volunteers, and sometimes other pressing deadlines may cause a new release to lag COLA's release by a few weeks. But usually we try to get it out in a week or two.</div>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">I don’t
want to be a bother to the sys admin who will have to do these updates if it
will be more complicated or if he’ll have to keep two versions of grads
up and running.</span></font></p></div></div></blockquote></div><div> You can always download a bundle tarball and test drive it from your home directory.</div><div><br></div><div> Cheers!</div><div><br></div><div> Arlindo</div>
<br>-- <br>Arlindo da Silva<br><a href="mailto:dasilva@alum.mit.edu">dasilva@alum.mit.edu</a><br>