suggestion for Geomview

[mbp]

Tim,
   There is a GCL command "geomview-version" which returns the
Geomview version number.  You have to explicitly pass it to the "echo"
command to get it to print anything out (GCL commands normally just
return their value internally, not printing anything out).  So the
command

	(echo (geomview-version))

does what you want.  If you type this in the Commands panel, the
output will go to stdout. You can type it in the shell window if
you invoke geomview with the "-c -" option, which causes it to
read GCL commands from stdin.

Alternately, the following shell command will invoke geomview with no
graphics or panels and will cause it to print out its version number.
Not nearly as concise as the "-version" option you suggested, but it
works, :-)


% geomview -nopanels -wins 0 -c '(progn (echo (geomview-version))(exit))'


--Mark