Re: Using GMT 5 with GMT 4 installed

"J. Luis" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gis.gmt.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Excerpt of the gmtswitch.bat that the CookBook warns users to read

REM    This batch changes the Windows PATH variable so that the BIN 
directory
REM    of the preferred version always comes first. To do that the batch 
works in two
REM    alternative modes.
REM
REM    1- Permanent mode
REM    2- Temporary mode
REM
REM    The permanent mode makes use of the free executable program 
"EditPath" to
REM    change the user path in the registry. It's called permanent 
because the changes
REM    remains until ... next change.
REM    http://www.softpedia.com/get/Tweak/Registry-Tweak/EditPath.shtml
REM    Off course the editpath.exe binary must be in your system's path 
as well.
REM    WARNING: The path change will not be visible on the shell cmd 
where it was executed.
REM         For the change to be active you will need to open a new cmd 
window.


> Ah, Windows.
> Presumably you need to install the editpath program, no?
> -p
>
> On Jan 28, 2014, at 1:14 PM, Lester Anderson 
> <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[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] <mailto:[email protected]>
>> Subject: Re: [GMT-HELP] Using GMT 5 with GMT 4 installed
>> To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
>>
>> The standard way of dealing with this is via gmtswitch.  See its man 
>> page ongmt.soest.hawaii.edu <http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu/>.
>> -p
>>
>> On Jan 28, 2014, at 12:47 PM, Lester Anderson 
>> <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[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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