== Cygwin tips for ROMS users ==
Cygwin is a Unix-like environment that can run on Windows machines and will allow you to compile and execute most standard Unix/Linux applications.

Get the Cygwin/X version from http://x.cygwin.com/

Install it by clicking on the Install Cygwin/X now icon.
At the step where you are asked to Setup 
In your Cygwin home directory, you should have (or create) a file called {{{.bashrc}}}
Edit it to indicate where some key stuff resides. Mine looks like
{{{
export LIB="C:\Program Files\Intel\Compiler\Fortran\9.1\IA32\Bin;C:\Program Files\Intel\Compiler\Fortran\9.1\IA32\Lib;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\LIB;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\SDK\v1.1\Lib\;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\DF98\IMSL\LIB;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\DF98\LIB"
export NETCDF_INCDIR="/usr/local/include"
export NETCDF_LIBDIR="/usr/local/lib"
export UDUNITS_PATH="/usr/local/lib/udunits.dat"
# Ignore case while completing
set completion-ignore-case on
# Make Bash 8bit clean
set meta-flag on
set convert-meta off
set output-meta on
alias less='/bin/less -r'
# alias ls='/bin/ls -F --color=tty --show-control-chars'
alias cdroms='cd ~/src/roms_sed/branches/crs_branch'
}}}