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Hi Marianne, You will notice that I drove this into our inquiry tracking system before answering. The main reason I did this was I view your question as being pertinent for the general Unidata McIDAS community. re: > Just a short and absolutely not urgent question: > > Have you ever tried to build mcidas (or the unidata mcidas) on cygwin? > Any experiences on that? I have never tried since I expected that it would not work. I will ask some folks in Unidata about their cygwin setup to see if I could either clone it easily or try a build using their environment. I would suspect that there would be some issues that would be encountered in the build process, but my big worry is whether or not Cygwin contains all of the system support required by McIDAS (e.g., shared memory, etc.). If/when I learn anything with respect to McIDAS viability under Cygwin, I will certainly let you know. On a somewhat related topic, the latest Unidata McIDAS distribution, v2006h, should have the code modifications needed to build out of the box under SuSE 10.1. > Hope you are well, I am doing very well, thanks. I assume that you know that I had the good fortune to meet and interact with Henk Verschuur and HansPeter Roesli (I already knew HP) at the Sahel Conference 2007 that was held in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso at the beginning of April... Cheers, Tom **************************************************************************** Unidata User Support UCAR Unidata Program (303) 497-8642 P.O. Box 3000 address@hidden Boulder, CO 80307 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unidata HomePage http://www.unidata.ucar.edu **************************************************************************** Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: TCB-192077 Department: Support McIDAS Priority: Normal Status: Closed