Dan, Thanks for the reply. On my RHEL 5 x86_64 workstation if I type:
> hdfview MyHDF5file.h5 hdfview opens, but not with my file loaded. Perhaps there is something strange with how I am placing hdfview on my PATH, or with how my filesystem is behaving. I have instealled hdfview to a NFS directory, and then create a link to the hdfview executable in a (NFS) directory that's already on my path using the old *nix stow command. The files are usually in different NFS mounted directories or lustre mounted directories. Either way, this feature/help request is secondary to what appears to me to be a bug: checking the "current working directory" box in the settings appears not to produce the desired behaviour that it did in hdfview 2.6. Izaak Beekman =================================== (301)244-9367 Princeton University Doctoral Candidate Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering [email protected] UMD-CP Visiting Graduate Student Aerospace Engineering [email protected] [email protected] On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 9:11 AM, Daniel Kahn <[email protected]> wrote: > ** > > > Zaak Beekman wrote: > > > The functionality I think would be most useful would be to be able to set > hdfview to look in the current working directory (the directory from which > hdfview was launched). Also, it would be wonderful if one could pass hdf5 > files as arguments to hdfview so that the files would already be open once > in the hdfview gui, rather than wading through menus, and clicking through > the directory to find the file one is looking for. > > Zaak, > > On my linux box, with hdfview 2.7, I just type: > > hdfview ModifyTest.h5 > > > on the command line and hdfview starts with that file open. It will even > handle multiple files. Isn't that what you are looking for? Also, you can > just copy and paste path strings into the "file text box", or whatever it is > called, at the top of the window. If the path includes the file that file > is open. If it doesn't than a dialog to that directory is opened. > > Aren't these features what you're requesting in your second sentence above? > > By the way, on linux and probably other OS's there is a *readlink -f*command > which I've found to be very useful for generating the full path to > be copied and pasted into hdfview. > > Cheers, > --dan > > -- > Daniel Kahn > Science Systems and Applications Inc.301-867-2162 > >
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