I have no idea how to use period. I'm happy to try my installation if
you send me instructions.
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 1:10 AM, Robert Smith <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Tom, Tim
>
> Thanks for your comments. I am chasing this up with our computer manager -
> it seems likely that the problem arose when he installed the latest version
> of Starlink software after a major upgrade of the computer system.
>
> Robert
>
>
> On 12/12/2011 21:32, Thomas Marsh wrote:
>
> Dear Robert,
>
> does PERIOD use PGPLOT? If so, this might be an issue with PGPLOT
> environment variables. If I remember rightly PGPLOT_DIR must point to where
> grfont.dat and rgb.txt are found
>
> Tom
>
> On 12 December 2011 21:27, Robert Smith <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> I have sorted out the path issue with our computer manager's help, but to
>> my frustration I am now having a different problem: a plotting window opens,
>> but there are no scales on the axes of the graphs - and for most input files
>> no data gets plotted either! So far, the only data file to show anything in
>> the window is one with three columns (date, magnitude and error) rather than
>> just two (date and magnitude). PERIOD is normally perfectly happy with just
>> two columns, so I'm not sure it's a PERIOD problem, unless there is
>> something different about the latest version.
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>>
>> Robert
>>
>> On 24/11/2011 23:06, Malcolm J. Currie wrote:
>>>
>>> I had this issue some years ago. There was something awry with the PATH
>>> such that the GNS name translation table wasn't being located.
>>>
>>> IIRC the workaround was to define environment variable GNS_GNSNAMES to
>>> $STARLINK_DIR/etc/gns_gksnames.
>>>
>>> Malcolm
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