<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Dear Weather Man,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"> I suspect that your installation of the superpack may have not finished correctly. If you haven'd done so, I suggest you uninstall OpenGrADS 2.2 from the start menu, reboot your machine (this is important) and re-install it. With the superpack, there is no need to install or start Xming. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">If you want to check your environment variables on Windows I believe (I am not close to a Windows machine right now) that you simply enter </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">C:\ SET</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">from the command line. In this case, do you see the DISPLAY variable set to any value? You do not need to set DISPLAY.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"> Arlindo</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 8:51 AM Tim Van Damme <<a href="mailto:tim@stormcell.be">tim@stormcell.be</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="NL-BE"><div class="gmail-m_4007769632530872278WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Hello Weather Man,<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">I am running the new opengrads on a windows machine as well. I am willing to help through remote control and check what’s wrong.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Kind regards, <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Tim<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> gradsusr [mailto:<a href="mailto:gradsusr-bounces@gradsusr.org" target="_blank">gradsusr-bounces@gradsusr.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>weather.man<br><b>Sent:</b> 21 February 2019 13:04<br><b>To:</b> GrADS Users Forum <<a href="mailto:gradsusr@gradsusr.org" target="_blank">gradsusr@gradsusr.org</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> [gradsusr] </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"MS Gothic"">回复:</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> OpenGrADS 2.2.1 for Windows: Available for Testing<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black">Hi Arlindo da Silva<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black">I installed on my GrADS Dell XPS15, but it does not run correctly.Xming not start properly. My computer system is win10 64 bit . I installed it on my other laptop with the same operating system,and It works fine. Very strange !<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black">I think it is a problem with environmental variables. But I do not know how to do.<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black"><img width="1186" height="593" id="gmail-m_4007769632530872278_x0000_i1025" src="cid:16911478ff64cff311"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><blockquote style="margin-right:0cm"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black">------------------------------------------------------------------<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Microsoft JhengHei",sans-serif;color:black">发件人:</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black">Arlindo da Silva <<a href="mailto:dasilva@alum.mit.edu" target="_blank">dasilva@alum.mit.edu</a>><u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Microsoft JhengHei",sans-serif;color:black">发送时间:</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black">2019</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">年</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black">2</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">月</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black">19</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">日</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black">(</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">星期二</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black">) 04:38<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">收件人:</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black">GrADS Users Forum <<a href="mailto:gradsusr@gradsusr.org" target="_blank">gradsusr@gradsusr.org</a>><u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">主 </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Microsoft JhengHei",sans-serif;color:black">题:</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black">[gradsusr] OpenGrADS 2.2.1 for Windows: Available for Testing<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black">Dear GrADS Users,<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black"> After a long hiatus, I am pleased to announce a new OpenGrADS 2.2.1 build for Windows:<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black">Windows</span></b><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black">: <a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/opengrads/files/grads2/2.2.1.oga.1/Windows/" target="_blank">https://sourceforge.net/projects/opengrads/files/grads2/2.2.1.oga.1/Windows/</a> <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black">As usual, the superpack.exe is the familiar self-installing package (batteries included.) The tar.gz file is intented for cygwin users (32-bit). As of now, I have no plans for a 64-bit cygwin build. The main reason is the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) capability that allows you to run the 64-bit Linux build under Windows 10. Read on.<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black">Running GrADS under the Windows 10 Subsystem for Linux (WSL)</span></b><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black">The OpenGrADS Linux tarballs should run out of the box on WSL. Here is a quick roadmap:<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black">1) Install the Windows Subsystem for Linux:<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black">WSL</span></b><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black">: <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10" target="_blank">https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10</a><u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black"> <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black">2) Install a Linux Distribution from the Microsoft App Store. The suggested Linux Distribution for GrADS is <b>Ubuntu 18LTS </b>although others may work as well.<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black">3) Install an X server of your choice. The free Xming works great:<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black">Xming:</span></b><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black"> <a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/xming/" target="_blank">https://sourceforge.net/projects/xming/</a><u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black"> <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black">Start the Xserver by clicking on it.<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black">4) Download the OpenGrADS Bundle Linux tarball for <b>glibc 2.17 </b>(others may work, but the 2.17 is recommended for Ubuntu 18LTS):<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black">Linux</span></b><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black">: <a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/opengrads/files/grads2/2.2.1.oga.1/Linux/" target="_blank">https://sourceforge.net/projects/opengrads/files/grads2/2.2.1.oga.1/Linux/</a> <u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black">5) On the Linux command line under Windows 10 do as you would do on regular Linux:<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black"> % tar xvfz <b><i>/path/to</i></b>/opengrads-2.2.1.oga.1-bundle-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-glibc_2.17.tar.gz<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black"> % cd opengrads-2.2.1/Contents<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black"> % ./opengrads <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black"> % ./grads<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black"> % ./ncep<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black">If you download the OpenGrADS on the Windows side, the tar ball will likely be on your Download folder. In this case, the <b><i>/path/to</i></b> above should be <b><i>/mnt/c/Users/USERNAME/Downloads</i></b>, where USERNAME is your user name.<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black">Put the opengrads-2.2.1/Contents directory on your path and you are ready to go --- no need to set any environment variable other than PATH. It should work out of the box, YMMV.<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black"> <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black">Which version is faster? Cygwin-based or Linux under WSL?</span></b><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black">I was hoping that the user community could help us answering this question. If you benchmark these 2 builds, please share your experience in this form:<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black">Benchmark</span></b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black">: <a href="https://goo.gl/forms/yUIEL8pncfGH87Zz1" target="_blank">https://goo.gl/forms/yUIEL8pncfGH87Zz1</a></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black">I will share the results here.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black"> Please report any issues with the Windows build by replying to this list. (No personal e-mail, please. I mean it.)</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black"> Enjoy!</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black"> Arlindo</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black">-- <u></u><u></u></span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:24pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:rgb(0,102,0)">Arlindo da Silva</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black"><a href="mailto:dasilva@opengrads.org" target="_blank">dasilva@opengrads.org</a><u></u><u></u></span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div></div></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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