Description
View a file using an appropriate viewer:
- The Viewer for Images (normally the
image.view function) unless told
differently via the aipsrc variable catalog.view.image.
- ghostview for PostScript files.
- xv for Graphics files.
- the tablebrowser for non-image tables.
- The Glish pager for Glish and ascii files.
You can change the viewer for PostScript, Graphics, image
Glish, and ascii files via the aipsrc
mechanism:
e.g. you can add the following to your .aipsrc file
catalog.view.image: aipsview
catalog.view.PostScript: pageview
catalog.view.Graphics: /usr/local/bin/xv
catalog.view.Glish: xterm -e less
catalog.view.ascii: emacs -r
It is also possible to define these variables as an empty string,
which indicates that there is no viewer available for that file type.
E.g. it might be possible that a site does not have xv available.
Arguments
| file |
in |
File to be viewed |
| |
|
Allowed: |
String |
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