ESS and stata- no graphic output

[Jan Goebel]

Hello,

a little workaround for me and may be a hint for 
other. Using:

$> env STATAPD="b /usr/local/stata/pd.X" emacs &

do the trick and stata using the pd.X driver with option binary.

jan

On Tue, 06 Feb 2001, A.J. Rossini wrote:

> >>>>> "AJR" == A J Rossini <rossini at blindglobe.net> writes:
> 
> 
>     AJR> Using ESS 5.1.19 (I know, it's not out yet :-) as well as ESS
>     AJR> 5.1.13, with XEmacs version (Value: "21.0 \"Pyrenean63\"
>     AJR> XEmacs Lucid (beta63)"), graphics are working just fine. This
>     AJR> is on RedHat 5.2 (ancient, I know).
> 
>     AJR> HOWEVER, using Emacs 20.3 (this IS an old machine), I get the
>     AJR> problems that Jan and Eduardo experience.
> 
>     AJR> So I'm really confused.  Is there any way in Stata of
>     AJR> "forcing" the pd.X driver?
> 
> 
> To be exact, the problem is whether your system using Termcap or
> Terminfo.  From the comint section:
> 
>   ;; If using termcap, we specify `emacs' as the terminal type
>   ;; because that lets us specify a width.
>   ;; If using terminfo, we specify `dumb' because that is
>   ;; a defined terminal type.  `emacs' is not a defined terminal type
>   ;; and there is no way for us to define it here.
>   ;; Some programs that use terminfo get very confused
>   ;; if TERM is not a valid terminal type.
> 
> and the problem is that we are seeing dumb.  No matter what I've tried
> to do, I'm not having luck getting Stata to use the display variable.
> 
> ARGG!!!!
> 
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