System Requirements

Minimum: Pentium 166, 32 Mb RAM, 800x600 video mode. Note that Windows users must use at least a 16-bit color depth.

Recommended: Pentium III/450, 128 Mb RAM, 1024x768 video mode or higher.

Stable Versions

• Linux 0.6a-4 (725 kb) RedHat Linux 7.0 i386
• IRIX 0.5a (1.2 Mb) SGI IRIX 5.3
• Windows 0.6a-4 (352 kb) Windows 9x/ME, NT/2000
• Windows DLLs (1.7 Mb) Windows 9x/ME, NT/2000 (updated for 0.6a-4 and later)

Development Versions

• Linux 0.7a-2 (712 kb) RedHat Linux 7.1 i386

Note: Development versions are updated as changes are made, and are not well tested. There is no guarantee that versions from different operating systems have the same features implemented.

Supplementary Files

• Coastline data [tar.gz] [zip] (8.5 Mb) Platform independent coastline data files, required for vector generated coastline overlays.
• Logo graphics [tar.gz] [zip] (10 kb) Logo PNG files, required for exporting PDF documents (version 0.6a-2 and later).

Installation

Unix: Gunzip and untar the installation files. Place the CDAT executable anywhere in the user's path. Place the coastline data files in the user's $HOME/.cdat directory.

Windows: For first time installation, make sure to download both the Windows executable and DLL zip files. Unzip the installation files and place the CDAT executable in its own directory, for example C:\CDAT. Place the coastline data files in the same directory. Copy the DLL files into C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM on Windows 9x/ME or C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32 under Windows NT/2000.