[daip] TKPL

Wes Young wyoung at nrao.edu
Tue May 26 23:56:30 EDT 2009


What version of the OS are you running? X11 is handled quite  
differently between 10.5 and 10.4.

wes
wyoung at aoc.nrao.edu


On May 25, 2009, at 8:44 AM, Eric Greisen wrote:

> Farhad Zadeh wrote:
>> Hi  Eric,
>> I hope all is well. I have been having a problem with
>> TKPL on my PowerBook G4 laptop as I have the latest version
>> of aips is installed. The problem is that the label of the plot file
>> including all the headers are shown as zeros or O's.
>> I there a quick fix?
>> Many thanks for your help.
>>
>
> I doubt it.  I tried TKPL on my Mac (an Intel chip) and it works fine.
> I then tried to log in to our G4 machine - there were a bunch of wierd
> problems and it did not seem able to talk to my computer at all.  But
> that would not test the real issue - there is nothing wrong with TKPL.
> What is wrong is with the xterm emulator on your (old) machine.
>
> Let me point out that there is little reason to use TKPL.  The TVs are
> fast (maybe not on a G4?) and the cursor read back works on XAS  
> while it
> fails some on xterm emulators.  All TK operations have been replicated
> in TV code.
>
> Perhaps Wes can figure out how to test this more tomorrow.
>
> Eric Greisen
>
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