On Sun, Jan 24, 1999 at 02:43:49AM +0000, Martin Held wrote: > Hmm. This sounds a lot like the Matlab Engineering tool I just learned > how to use last Term. It's mainly console based, but can display graphs > and plots and the like. If the user doesn't have the DISPLAY variable set > right, it just tries to send the graphics off to a null server and doens't > even give an error message. If your program doesn't require X11 to run > (as in, there are some things in there that never require X), you could > consider letting the user run the program even if $DISPLAY isn't set, and > maybe give a warning that it hasn't, or something like that.
Sounds very similar. This package is SatTrack, a sattelite tracking program. It displays a screen full of tracking parameters, but can give an optional graphical display of the earth and the sattellite's current position. thanks for your input. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3TYD [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org