EZPLOT Setup and Requirements

EZPLOT is supported on the following systems:

1. Linux
2. MacOSX

EZPLOT requires IDL to be up and running on your system. MacOSX systems should also have X11 running (XQuartz is the current choice). In addition, EZPLOT will need the program "mpeg_encode " to produce MPEG animation (IDL's MPEG routines are buggy for long animations).

To setup EZPLOT on your system, you need two steps:

1. Set an environment variable called EZPLOT_ROOT to point to the directory where you copied EZPLOT routines. A csh shell example would be:
   
   setenv EZPLOT_ROOT /usr/local/lib/idl-local/csulib/EZPLOT
   
   

   Modify or create your IDL startup file (see below if you do not have one) to include the following line which modifies IDL's path to include ezplot directories:
   

   !PATH = !PATH+':'+EXPAND_PATH('+'+GETENV('EZPLOT_ROOT'))
   
   

If you do not have a startup file for IDL, you can create one and point the environment variable "IDL_STARTUP to it. For example:

setenv IDL_STARTUP /path-to-your-file/your_startup_file.pro