ESS and stata- no graphic output

Eduardo Nogueira nogueira at hc.unicamp.br
Mon Feb 12 19:59:11 CET 2001


Dear ess users, specially J. Goebel and  T. Rossini

Jan's trick worked all right!!!

Thanks

Eduardo

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jan Goebel" <jgoebel at diw.de>
To: <ess-help at stat.math.ethz.ch>
Sent: Quarta-feira, 7 de Fevereiro de 2001 08:03
Subject: Re: ESS and stata- no graphic output


> 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!!!!
> >
> > --
> > A.J. Rossini Rsrch. Asst. Prof. of Biostatistics
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