Messages from Usenet group comp.lang.idl-pvwave, compiled by Paulo Penteado
ratnakar amaravadi <amaravad@silver.ucs.indiana.edu> writes: > Hi: > I have an IDL program that is widget based and plots some graphs as the > computation is proceeding. These plots are only for display purposes > and since my program takes a long time to complete, I do not want to > tie up my terminal. Is there a way I can submit my job as a batch job. > Do I have to disable the widgets in my code? > Can I submit the job as a background job. I am running IDL on HP-UX > machine. If it's widget based, then obviously you're running X-windows. You can't really tie up the terminal, just the window you're running IDL from. You can always start up other windows while IDL is running. If you're careful about how you use colors, you can even run two copies of IDL on the screen at the same time. Bill Thompson