On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 2:16 PM, Jennifer Adams <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jma@cola.iges.org">jma@cola.iges.org</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;">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word">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. --</div></blockquote>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>It would be nice if, like GASCRP, GASHP would include a list of directories as well. BTW, what is the current acceptable "separation characters"? Can both ";" and ":" be used?</div>
<div><br></div><div> Arlindo</div><div><br></div><div> </div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Jennifer<div>
<br><div><div><div></div><div class="h5"><br><div><div>On Aug 2, 2011, at 2:06 PM, Dave Allured wrote:</div><br><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>
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