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
>
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Tim Jenness
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