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20040525: GEMPAK and Macintosh OS X

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  • Subject: 20040525: GEMPAK and Macintosh OS X
  • Date: 25 May 2004 11:27:04 -0600
The NETBSD OS has the hooks. Apple has just chosen not to implement them
at this point in time. Message queues and interprocess communications
(msg.h and ipc.h) are System V features.

Cygwin for windows has a separate IPC daemon client to run that serves
to support these features (though somewhat slowly since it is an
application).

Steve Chiswell
Unidata User Support





On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 22:22, David Blanchard wrote:
> Steve Chiswell wrote:
> 
> >David,
> >
> >MacOSX doesn't support message queues needed for GEMPAK.
> >I have done all the work to build and test. The GUI and decoder
> >programs work fine. But Panther and Jaguar don't have the
> >system V ipc routines.
> >http://my.unidata.ucar.edu/cgi-bin/getfile?file=/content/support/help/MailArchives/gempak/msg05909.html
> >http://my.unidata.ucar.edu/cgi-bin/getfile?file=/content/support/help/MailArchives/gempak/msg05986.html
> >http://my.unidata.ucar.edu/cgi-bin/getfile?file=/content/support/help/MailArchives/gempak/msg05987.html
> >
> >The Gemenviron I provide will recognize Darwin and set the necessary
> >build parameters. The Apple GCC distribution didn't have G77 at the
> >time, so I had to download that from fink, as well as openmotif.
> >
> >Steve Chiswell
> >
> 
> Steve,
> 
> Thanks.  It's too bad that the IPC is not supported.  For now, I'll
> continue to use my HP running 10.20.
> 
> David
> 
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