[fa.info-vax] NCAR PLOT FILES

info-vax@ucbvax.ARPA (06/25/85)

From: "RLM" <mattis@nbs-sdc>

We are running the NCAR plotting package on our VAX-11/780 and would
like to capture the Tektronix plot files which it creates and process
them further for input to a Talaris laser printer.  The NCAR software
and the MCVAX metacode translator are about three years old. 

When we use the MCVAX FILE command, the file which is created cannot be
plotted but produces much garbage on the screen.  The only way we are
able to capture a Tektronix plot file is to send it to a stopped queue,
copy the file out of the queue, then remove the entry from the queue.  A
file obtained in this way plots fine and can be translated into Talaris
format.  It appears that I have the choice of giving users the privilege
of stopping and starting a queue or creating a permanently stopped
queue.  It would seem that there must be a better way.  Perhaps I am not
using the FILE command of MCVAX properly. 

Has anyone used the NCAR plotting package to successfully capture plot
files?  Any help would be appreciated. 

Dick Mattis 
National Bureau of Standards 
(301) 921-3621 
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