Re: GIF weirdness and passing symbols...

[Joe Sirott <sirott@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Gary,

A possible answer to your first question -- my guess is that you are
running Ferret on a 24 bit visual and, unfortunately, the only way to
get a GIF out of Ferret on a 24 bit visual is to use "ferret -gif."
Alternatively, you could run Ferret on a 8 bit visual.

Gary Strand wrote:
> 
> OS            : Solaris 2.5.1
> ferret version: Version 4.91 - 05/19/98
> 
> Up until very recently, when I did a "frame/file=whatever.gif", I could view
> the GIF with xli or xv. Now both complain that the gifs are bad. Also, unless
> I run unmapped ferret in "ferret -gif" mode, the right and bottom edges of the
> GIF are clipped. I'd really rather avoid running ferret twice, once for meta-
> code and once for GIFs.
> 
> Also, I haven't been able to figure out how to pass symbols to scripts - what
> I'm trying to do is pass label 4 (the one with the timestamp in it) to a "sub-
> script" so I can place it somewhere other than its default location (among
> many other things in the main script and "subscript" too).
> 
> I've tried defining new symbols, grave accents, regular accents, dollar signs,
> and I'm stymied.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> --
> Gary Strand
> strandwg@ucar.edu                              http://www.cgd.ucar.edu/ccr/gary