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Chiz, Thanks bud. You the man....as always! Steve P.S. Will miss you at Goddard on Friday due to extended illness. Bummer! On Tue, 7 Dec 1999, Steve Chiswell wrote: > Steve, > > There is a way to override the default table using the > environmental variable: GEMCOLTBL > to specify an alternate color table, such as: > setenv GEMCOLTBL coltbl.ramp > > (You probably have my $GEMTBL/colors/coltbl.ramp which is > an example of a green through yellow color ramp I used > for some precipitable water plots). > > Setting an alternate color table works if you are not running "ntl" on > the X server you are drawing to (eg, if you have xvfb for scripts to > generate their gifs to, then this works great...otherwise, ntl on your > desktop provides the shared colormap and the program does not even > read the color table). > > Alternatively, you can set you script to use gpcolor and define your colors > in you script. > > Steve Chiswell > Unidata User Support > > > On Tue, 7 Dec 1999, Steven L. Mullen wrote: > > > Chiz, > > > > Is there simple way to direct the xw/gf driver > > to different color tables other than the default > > one, e.g. in a simple manner similar to setting > > LUTFIL=, when running a gdplot script? I > > have spent most of the afternoon reading > > the archived email and did not finding > > anything that seemed to fit the bill > > > > Thanks for bearing with me, > > Steve > > > > -- > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > {} Steven L. Mullen > > {} {} Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences > > {} {} {} University of Arizona > > {} {} {} 1118 E. 4th St. > > {}{}{} PO Box 210081 > > {} Tucson, Arizona 85721-0081 > > {} Tel:(520) 621-6842 > > {} Fax:(520) 621-6833 > > {} Email: address@hidden > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > >