mathgroup request (fwd)
- To: mathgroup at christensen.cybernetics.net
- Subject: [mg351] mathgroup request (fwd)
- From: barker at polar.Bowdoin.EDU (Bill Barker)
- Date: Wed, 21 Dec 1994 16:24:35 -0500 (EST)
>Forwarded message:
>From fisk Wed Dec 21 08:17:34 1994
>Date: Wed, 21 Dec 94 08:17:32 -0500
>From: fisk (Steve Fisk)
>To: barker
>Subject: mathgroup request
>X-Mailer: VM Version 5.72 (beta)
>Organization: Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Me, 04011, USA
Bill, could you forward this question to mathgroup.
I am having a problem displaying graphics. I'm using a
decstation 5000/125, with this version of ULTRIX:
ULTRIX V4.2A (Rev. 47) System #1: Tue Jul 21 10:26:56 EDT 1992
UWS V4.2A (Rev. 420)
If I use the default plot command, I get an error. Moreover, the
option -s is not documented in the motifps man page. In looking at
motifps, it appears that the possible options beginning with "-s" are
-selectionTimeout
-synchronous
so -s is probably the latter.
Questions:
1) Is there a later version of motifps that I should have?
2) What do I do to get a plotting window to appear
with a given height, width, and location?
3) What is the purpose of -s?
4) Is the man page out of sync with the program?
5) Is there a correction for the $Display variable in a later release?
Sample session. I added comments in parenthesis.
[Display]< 72 > math
Mathematica 2.2 for DEC RISC
Copyright 1988-93 Wolfram Research, Inc.
In[1]:= $Display
Out[1]= !motifps -s -h '400.' -w '400.' -T 'Mathematica Graphics: Out[1]'
In[2]:= Plot[x,{x,0,1}]
Out[2]= -Graphics-
In[3]:= Usage: motifps (no window, no plot)
In[3]:= $Display = "!motifps "
Out[3]= !motifps
In[4]:= Plot[x,{x,0,1}]
Out[4]= -Graphics- (plots correctly in a window)
In[5]:= $Display = "!motifps -s"
Out[5]= !motifps -s
In[6]:= Plot[x,{x,0,1}]
Out[6]= -Graphics- (window created, but no plot)
In[7]:= Quit[];
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Steve Fisk Department of Mathematics
207-725-3574 Bowdoin College
fisk at bowdoin.edu Brunswick, Me. 04011 USA