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20040803: "DISPLAY" problem in GEMPAK script

Robert,

Check to see what your DISPLAY variable is when you are running the
program interactively. Your default display now may not be the same
as what you are setting in your script.

Steve Chiswell



On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 13:43, unidata wrote:
> Hi --
> 
> Just installed a new version of XFree86 so that some new video card drivers 
> could be found, and as a result generated a problem with some gempak scripts.
> 
> The scripts set the environmental variable, DISPLAY, but gempak seems to not 
> detect it.
> 
> Gempak comes back with the error , "[GEMPLT -83]  NDISP - DISPLAY not set or 
> invalid".
> 
> I have manually run the program, gdprof, and all works well, but the script, 
> run from the same directory, gives the error message.  
> 
> The scripts used to work before the new installation.   Any ideas?
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance for your comments and suggestions,
> 
> 
> Hobbie