Re: OPLOT fails intermittently, any ideas?

[Dave Greenwood <greenwoodde(at)ornl.gov>]

In a previous article, bleau@umtof.umd.edu (Lawrence Bleau) wrote:
> In article <3B5748F3.F55D02AF@lheapop.gsfc.nasa.gov>, tam <tam@lheapop.gsfc.nasa.gov> writes:
> >
> >Purely as a possible workaround...
> >
> >If you're running on a platform with X-windows and your IDL sessions are
> >running in an environment in which the console is known, then you could probably
> >use X-window PIXMAPs instead of the Z buffer.  E.g.,
> [snip]
>  
> This has to work in a batch job environment, no access to X-window display (or
> *any* display).  Good thought, though.

That might depend on how you define "no access" ;-)  You can issue
SET DISPLAY/CREATE within a batch job.  You'd only need an X terminal
which would accept a connection from IDL.  Using /TRANSPORT=TCPIP
would mean you wouldn't have to worry about username checking - just
the node on which the batch queue is running.

Dave
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Dave Greenwood                Email: Greenwoodde@ORNL.GOV
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