Re: hardcopy but no display

[Joe Sirott <sirott@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You can run Ferret in batch mode by starting it with:

ferret -batch

Don't use 'set mode meta'; a ferret bug causes this to fail. The output
will be in metafile.plt, even without using 'set mode meta'.

Peter Rayner wrote:
> 
> I often want to produce a hardcopy of a plot without displaying it,
> e.g. when not on an X terminal.
> set mode metafile
> seems pretty determined to open an X-window somewhere, at least under
> V4.91.  Not setting DISPLAY makes ferret very unhappy.  One solution
> is to run xvfb (the X virtual frame buffer) but not every system seems
> to have this.  Can I persuade ferret that just hardcopy is ok?
> thanks again
> Peter Rayner