On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 04:21:31PM +0100, Roderick Johnstone wrote:
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> People may be aware that the starlink 'convert' command has a name
> conflict with an ImageMagick routine which is often found on linux
> systems.
Oh yes, has been talked about many years ago.
> On our system, the starlink convert wins, but that is not what everyone
> wants. I don't know who has the prior claim to this name, but is there
> any chance of resolving this conflict?
convert is aliased in the Starlink setup script /star/etc/csrhc.
If you afterwards "unalias convert" then convert will mean
an executable on your PATH of that name, which will most
probably be ImageMagick's.
The Starlink setup also aliases convertsetup, so users can
still use the Starlink convert package in parallel with
ImageMagick's convert command. I guess the convert alias cannot
be removed from Starlink so as to remain backwards-compatible.
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