Re: [ferret_users] Why plot/thick=2 does not work sometimes

[jaison@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Hi Peng,
          Which version of Ferret are you using? Do you find the display
(x-windows) from remote machine to be fine? Are you running Ferret in
batch mode with -gif option? In that case see these discussions :

http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/maillists/tmap/ferret_users/fu_2004/msg00884.html
http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/maillists/tmap/ferret_users/fu_2005/msg00477.html


          Though this is may not be a solution to your problem, i would
like to mention that, /color or /line argument with numerical values
from 1-18 can be used for color+line_thickness (1-6 is thick=1, 7-12 is
thick=2 and 13-18 is thick=3). So, any of the following commands will
give you the same thick red line

       plot/color=2/thick=2 i[i=1:10]
       plot/color=8  i[i=1:10]
       plot/line=8   i[i=1:10]

see how does the following demo works on your remote machine :

       yes? go line_thickness

Thanks and Regards,

Jaison

> Hi, ferret users:
>
> I am trying to make a plot of time series using
> plot/thick=2/color=blue.
>
> It keeps on crashing on one of the NASA Columbia super computers. I played
> a bit with the script and it turned out that the computer does not thick=2
> option. I really like to have a thicker line. Can anyone help me?
>
> Thanks,
>
> --- Peng
>
> Here is a log on the supercomputer:
>> ferret -gif
>         NOAA/PMEL TMAP
>         FERRET v6
>         Linux(g77) 2.4.20 - 09/11/06
>         30-Jun-08 15:19
>
> yes? go _mytest_plot.jnl
> let xt=I[I=1:25]
> let var1=sin(xt)
>
> plot/thick=2/color=blue var1
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
>
> I have tried the same script on a local machine and it worked without
> problem (see the log below) but it would be too time consuming to transfer
> data from the super computer to the local computer all the time:
>
>> ferret -gif
>         NOAA/PMEL TMAP
>         FERRET v6
>         Linux(g77) 2.4.21-32 - 08/23/06
>         30-Jun-08 15:19
> yes? go _mytest_plot.jnl
> let xt=I[I=1:25]
> let var1=sin(xt)
>
> plot/thick=2/color=blue var1
> frame/file=plot_test.gif
>
>
>