 |
 |
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 08:13:42PM +0000, Malcolm J. Currie wrote: > > Once linux distributions became popular and started shipping with > > ImageMagick by default it may have been that Starlink should have just > > bowed to the inevitable and changed the package name for CONVERT to > > something else. > > It's not as if this has been a common complaint. I'd be reluctant to > change the command initialisation across the board given current > resources. And next someone like me would say, I use display from ImageMagick more than I use its convert. And iff I initialised KAPPA beforehand I would get the wrong display command and it would throw up on my PNG data (perhaps not if I initialised convert also). Whether KAPPA display was in the PATH or is an alias does not really come into it, either way I would get the wrong one. The PATH gives actually less fine control than aliases do. (With PATH you either prefer all of /star/bin/kappa over any of /usr/bin or the other way round.) -- Horst Meyerdierks Royal Observatory Edinburgh Un*x/Network Manager [log in to unmask] http://www.roe.ac.uk/~hme/ +44-131-6688-309