<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Brian and I are now talking about adding GASHP to the GrADS-relevant environment variables, rather than overload GASCRP. I think your suggested search order is correct. --Jennifer<div><br><div><br><div><div>On Aug 2, 2011, at 2:06 PM, Dave Allured wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Jennifer,<br><br>Using GASCRP would be sufficient. However, I suggest this search order:<br><br>1. current dir<br>2. dirs in GASCRP<br>3. GADDIR<br><br>This is because the GADDIR install directory is read-only for me and <br>some other users, and it would be good to have a clean mechanism to <br>override shapefile collections that might hypothetically find their <br>way into GADDIR.<br><br>Thanks for your consideration.<br><br>--Dave<br><br>On 8/2/2011 8:47 AM, Jennifer Adams wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">How about using the directories in the GASCRP variable?<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">1. current dir<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">2. GADDIR<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">3. dirs in GASCRP<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">That requires the least amount of new code and documentation.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">--Jennifer<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">On Aug 1, 2011, at 2:03 PM, Dave Allured wrote:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Hi. This is a feature request for a separate environment variable<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">for the path to shapefiles. In recent GrADS versions, GADDIR is<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">used for both installation data files and shapefiles. Mixing an<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">installation directory with a user supplemented directory can create<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">some problems.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">I think a new environment variable such as GASHAPEDIR would be most<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">helpful. It would be nice if multiple paths could be specified as a<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">space separated list, as is now the case for GASCRP. For<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">compatibility, I suggest that the search order for shapefiles be as<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">follows:<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">1. Current directory.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">2. Paths in GASHAPEDIR, left to right.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">3. GADDIR.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">There are other ways to accomplish the goal. Multiple paths in<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">GADDIR is one of them. A separate environment variable seems most<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">user friendly to me.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">If desired, I would be willing to attempt a patch for this. What do<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">you think?<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">--Dave A.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">NOAA/PSD/CIRES<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Boulder, Colorado<br></blockquote></blockquote>_______________________________________________<br>gradsusr mailing list<br><a href="mailto:gradsusr@gradsusr.org">gradsusr@gradsusr.org</a><br>http://gradsusr.org/mailman/listinfo/gradsusr<br></div></blockquote></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div>--</div><div>Jennifer M. 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