David,
Just a suggestion that may have saved some work, but you know best!
Steve.
-----Original Message-----
From: David Berry [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 15 December 2003 13:16
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Figaro bug.
Steve,
> Could we remove SPLOT and just alias it to kappa linplot to it? It may
save
> some work.
Probably a bad idea since LINPLOT and SPLOT will have very different
parameters and behaviour. So just making SPLOT an alias for linplot could
probably just cause confusion.
Anyone volunteering to take over Fiagro from Clive?
David
>
> Not for forwarding on, but my response to the first would be to use
> kappa linplot. SPLOT is so inferior I can't understand why it's still
> used.
>
> Tim
>
> On Sat, 13 Dec 2003, Clive Davenhall wrote:
>
> > 13/12/03.
> >
> > Chaps,
> >
> > Appended below is a message from Andrea Leistra of the Steward
> > Observatory reporting a Figaro problem. Unfortunately I'm going to be
> > away at an AstroGrid meeting for the first half of next week and I won't
> > have time to investigate until I get back. If anyone feels like picking
> > up on the problem in the meantime please be my guest! I suspect that
> > there is something wrong with the way she has GKS or PGPLOT set up.
> > Maybe you can copy any messages to Andrea to me. I've e-mailed her
> > appraising her of the situation.
> >
> > And early in the new year I am definitely going to prepare a new release
> > of Figaro incorporating all my extant changes and HAND IT OVER TO
> > SOMEONE ELSE!
> >
> > cheers,
> > Clive.
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> >
> > >From [log in to unmask] Sat Dec 13 15:15:16 2003
> > Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 18:34:50 -0700 (MST)
> > From: Andrea Leistra <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Various FIGARO problems
> >
> > I've been encountering a few odd problems with FIGARO. I'm using
version
> 5.6.2 which
> > came with the Starlink for RedHat 9.0 CD.
> >
> > The first of these problems appeared only after I recently upgraded
RedHat
> and
> > Starlink, and appears to be a problem between FIGARO and PGPLOT.
> Attempting to use
> > "splot" gives the following error message
> >
> > !! GROPWK - /xwindow is not a valid workstation name
> >
> > (it also fails if I give my machine name to the "soft" prompt.
> >
> > The "image" command fares no better.
> >
> > I've just reinstalled pgplot, in an attempt to fix the problem, but in
my
> > home directory. Does FIGARO expect pgplot to be someplace in
particular?
> > (The PGPLOT_DIR environment variable is correctly set.)
> >
> > I've also had problems both under Linux 7.3 and 9.0 with the IRFLUX
> > command, getting the following error message:
> >
> > Standard name given as HIP 64941
> > startint: error in format
> > apparent state: internal I/O
> > last format: ( 'A Fortran error occured: IOSTAT = ', I )
> > lately writing sequential formatted internal IO
> > Abort
> >
> > Any suggestions would be very welcome.
> >
> > Thank you,
> >
> > --
> > Andrea Leistra [log in to unmask]
> > Steward Observatory
> >
>
> --
> Tim Jenness
> JAC software
> http://www.jach.hawaii.edu/~timj
>
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Dr David S. Berry ([log in to unmask])
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Rutherford Appleton Laboratory | PRESTON
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