On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, David Berry wrote:
> > I've had a play with webstart to see what the issues really are and have a
> > version of SPLAT that people with Linux (RH8/9 seem OK, no idea about 7.3)
> > and Windows should be able to try:
> >
> > http://star-www.dur.ac.uk/~pdraper/splat/splat.jnlp
> >
> > If you manage to get a spectrum plotted of any kind, then you've managed
> > to download a native library and load it.
>
> Tried it on RH 7.1 and managed to get as far as the SPLAT welcome panel.
> Pressed "OK" and everything went silent - loads of processes running java
> were created but none of them did anything - no sign of the SPLAT GUI.
>
> I'll try it on RH 9 and windows this afternoon.
Hi David,
I'm not surprised, using 7.1 could have many problems.
> By the way, I note there is no mention of ">>> !!! STARLINK !!! <<<"
> on the welcome panel. Might be an idea to get something in there to boost
> our visibilitity in these hard times. I know starlink is a bit of a vague
> concept these days, but it's still a name that many people are familiar
> with and will recognise.
Now, now, calm down. This is just a demonstration of principle, nothing I
intend to let anyone outside this distribution list see yet... I just used
that image 'cos it was there, but you're right Starlink isn't terribly
visible in SPLAT in general. I'll do something about that ASAP.
Peter.
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