more about gempak

Dear Support,

This is an additional note concerning Gempak on our Linux machine.  I 
was able to get it to run, but needed to make the model designations 
have the ".gem" suffix.  Having done that, it seems to run okay.

Frank Colby
UMass Lowell

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Dear Support,

I have just installed the latest version of Gempak on a linux machine, 
using the binary distribution.  I unzipped, untarred the file (this is 
the first time Gempak has been installed on this machine), edited the 
Gemenviron.profile, sourced it, and was able to navigate using the 
symbolic names, so the sourcing worked.  I then tried to run garp, and I 
get the main window, but as soon as I click on the "display model data" 
button, it crashes with a "segmentation fault", without opening the 
dialog box.  I searched the support archives and found one similar 
problem, but that was for an upgrade installation, and the problem was 
the previous version had not been removed.  Any other places I should 
look?  It seems like this should be something very basic.....

I made some changes to the Garp_defaults file, and got some new errors 
-- about XMtext and fonts not supported -- do I have to do a make 
install for Garp, even with a binary dist.?  I"m running on Redhat 9.

The other interesting thing is that surface data displays fine, and if I 
click on upperair data, the dialog box opens, even though there is no 
data. 

Frank Colby
UMass Lowell