<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">How about using the directories in the GASCRP variable? <div>1. current dir</div><div>2. GADDIR<br><div>3. dirs in GASCRP</div><div><br></div><div>That requires the least amount of new code and documentation. </div><div>--Jennifer</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><div>On Aug 1, 2011, at 2:03 PM, Dave Allured wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Hi. This is a feature request for a separate environment variable <br>for the path to shapefiles. In recent GrADS versions, GADDIR is <br>used for both installation data files and shapefiles. Mixing an <br>installation directory with a user supplemented directory can create <br>some problems.<br><br>I think a new environment variable such as GASHAPEDIR would be most <br>helpful. It would be nice if multiple paths could be specified as a <br>space separated list, as is now the case for GASCRP. For <br>compatibility, I suggest that the search order for shapefiles be as <br>follows:<br><br>1. Current directory.<br>2. Paths in GASHAPEDIR, left to right.<br>3. GADDIR.<br><br>There are other ways to accomplish the goal. Multiple paths in <br>GADDIR is one of them. A separate environment variable seems most <br>user friendly to me.<br><br>If desired, I would be willing to attempt a patch for this. What do <br>you think?<br><br>--Dave A.<br>NOAA/PSD/CIRES<br>Boulder, Colorado<br>_______________________________________________<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. Adams</div><div>IGES/COLA</div><div>4041 Powder Mill Road, Suite 302</div><div>Calverton, MD 20705</div><div><a href="mailto:jma@cola.iges.org">jma@cola.iges.org</a></div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></span></div></span> </div><br></div></div></body></html>