Re: Using GMT 5 with GMT 4 installed

Ah, Windows.
Presumably you need to install the editpath program, no?
-p

On Jan 28, 2014, at 1:14 PM, Lester Anderson <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Paul,
> 
> Yes I just found that :) However, it fails because it cannot find or understand "editpath" in the gmtswitch.bat file.
> 
> I edited the reference to v4 and 5 correctly in the file so that is all fine.
> 
> C:\Users\Lester>gmtswitch
> Usage:
>         To set GMT5 64 bits installed at C:\programs\GMT5\bin run  - this is the correct path
> gmtswitch g5_64
>         To set GMT5 32 bits installed at C:\programs\GMTdev\GMT5\WIN32\bin run -  N/A
> gmtswitch g5_32
>         To set GMT5 64 bits installed at C:\programs\GMT\bin run  - this is the correct path
> gmtswitch g4_64
>         To set GMT5 32 bits installed at C:\programs\GMT\GMT_win32\bin run - N/A
> gmtswitch g4_32
> 
> C:\Users\Lester>gmtswitch g5_64
> 'editpath' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
> operable program or batch file.
> 'editpath' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
> operable program or batch file.
> 'editpath' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
> operable program or batch file.
> 'editpath' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
> operable program or batch file.
> 
> set path=C:\programs\gmt5\bin;%PATH%   -  seems to work, but the batch file would be handy to get working.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Lester
> 
> Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 12:53:19 -1000
> From: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [GMT-HELP] Using GMT 5 with GMT 4 installed
> To: [email protected]
> 
> The standard way of dealing with this is via gmtswitch.  See its man page on gmt.soest.hawaii.edu.
> -p
> 
> On Jan 28, 2014, at 12:47 PM, Lester Anderson <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I have both GMT v4.5.9 and v5.1.0 installed. The paths are configured correctly in the environment variables, but invoking say grdinfo will always return the 4.5.9 version. Is there a way to configure things to access version 5, or does version 4 have to be removed?
> 
> GMT5_SHAREDIR=C:\programs\GMT5\share
> GMT_SHAREDIR=C:\programs\GMT\share
> 
> PATH includes:  ........;C:\programs\GMT\bin;C:\programs\GMT5\bin;
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Lester
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