Two questions regarding command line interface
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg3051] Two questions regarding command line interface
- From: tlm at ameslab.gov (Tom Marchioro)
- Date: Sun, 28 Jan 1996 03:22:18 -0500
- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wri.com
I own a couple of NeXT computers running Mathematica and wonder about a couple of things that might make the set-up a little more convenient. 1) For some rather complicated reasons it is often convenietn for me to be sitting at one NeXT and running mathematica in a shell window on the other. No real problem, but when I want to make a plot there seems to be no simple way to "display" it back on the first machine, as there is on an X-windows machine which just reads the DISPLAY environmental variable and pipes the graphic accordingly. Instead I have to save the plot to a file, psfix it, and ftp it back to the first machine. Q: Is there some better way to handle this? Perhaps something I can put in my init.m or some such. 2) I have seen some versions of Mma on Unix-X boxes where the command line interface has a utility called "fep" (for "front end processor") which gives tcshell like abilities to recall and edit prior commands. I have not been able to discover where this software comes from, who created it, if the source is available, etc. I would like to have it installed on my NeXT and wonder if anyone out there is familiar with it and can provide pointers. Thanks in advance for your help --- tom -- Dr. Thomas L. Marchioro II Two-wheeled theoretical physicist Applied Mathematical Sciences 515-294-9779 Ames Laboratory 515-432-9142 (home) Ames, Iowa 50011 tlm at ameslab.gov ==== [MESSAGE SEPARATOR] ====