This README explains briefly how to install opendx-4.3.0-cygwin-1.3.22.tar.gz binaries. 1) Download and install the latest version of Cygwin (used dll 1.3.22). You can get it from http://cygwin.com 2) Download opendx-4.3.0-cygwin-4.3.0.tar.gz to c:\temp 3) Start a cygwin bash shell (double-click on cygwin icon?) 4) execute exactly the following commands in the bash shell cd / tar zxvf /cygdrive/c/temp/opendx-4.3.0-cygwin-1.3.22.tar.gz this command will extract the necessary binaries and examples in /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/dx. 5) To use OpenDX, you need to start the xfree server. At this point, I'm not an expert, so I execute at the bash shell the command: startxwin.sh and in this window, you can type "dx" with the options as mentioned in the manual. 6) NetCDF, CDF, HDF support are not included. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- COMPILATION NOTES. While compiling the code, no big problems where found. After "./configure", "make" with a small problem: * while compiling src/exec/libdx/zclipQ.c, the compiler (gcc-3.2) got a lot of time (bug in gcc-3.2?), so I changed the optimization from -O2 to -O0 for this file, and everything else was fine. so after compiling this file, I make "make" and "make install" Rafael Torres