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Hi Bruce et al.,

I want to run a batch job that will use tksurfer to display an inflated surface, load some patches, and rotate and save images. I have a .tcl script to control the process in tksurfer and I have a shell script to start the whole process off for a number of subjects. My question now is how to handle the case where I am working remotely and it is too slow to have the display piped to the remote display, so I want to have either (a) no visible display or (b) a display on the host machine. If I try the usual trick of setting DISPLAY env for the host machine, I'm failing to open the display for any commands sent from the remote xterm.

Do you have a solution for this situation?

Take care, Darren

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Darren L. Weber, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Scholar

Dynamic Neuroimaging Laboratory, UCSF Department of Radiology, 185 Berry Street, Suite 350, Box 0946, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA.

Tel: +1 415 353-9444 Fax: +1 415 353-9421 www: http://dnl.ucsf.edu/users/dweber pgp: http://dnl.ucsf.edu/users/dweber/dweber_pgp.html

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