tktk@physics.att.com (01/13/89)
I've been using NeWS (1.1) on my color 4/110 (OS 4.0) as a graphics server for several remote hosts on a production basis for about 6 months. I generate a lot of xy plots and histograms in PostScript and display them using psview. One small change was made to psview - if it finds an environment variable NeWSwidth it opens a square window of NeWSwidth size rather than asking the user to sweep one ( I got really tired of sweeping windows ). The problem is that occasionally ( ~ 1 in 100 ) I generate a postscript plot that crases the server - usually with an illegal instruction. If I restart the server and send the same plot it crashes again but if I change the plot in a trivial way ( rotate it by putting in a 90 rotate at the appropriate place or change the arguments to the initial scale call) the problem goes away. Anybody have any idea what might be going on? Terry tktk@physics.att.com