[Magick-bugs] 'display [image]' fails on Mac OS X 10.5.2

[Rich Cook]

Hmm, kind of unlikely anyone has your version installed -- fink is at  
6.2.8 and the ImageMagick official release is 6.3.9.  I use 6.2.8 and  
it works fine for me.

It sounds to me like perhaps you have an alias set up?  What happens  
when you type (assuming bash syntax here)

type display

in an xterm where you ran the display command?

On Feb 25, 2008, at 8:29 AM, Alan Fry wrote:

> Command line 'display logo.gif' (for example) results in the  
> 'display -help' being printed out as though there was a 'usage'  
> error. Is it perhaps that  ImageMagick cannot find the X11 server?
>
> X11 is working as expected: 'xpdf' works; Gimp works, so do  
> GhostScript and GhostView. So there would seem to be nothing wrong  
> with the installation of X11. It is located in /usr/X11 and there  
> is a symlink /usr/X11R6 pointing to /usr/X11
>
> ImageMagick works in so far as the command 'convert  logo:  
> logo.gif' produces the logo.gif file in the home directory, and  
> some Perl scripts using the Image::Magick module also function  
> perfectly. So I have no reason to suppose that there is anything  
> fundamentally wrong with the installation.
>
> The version of ImageMagick is 6.3.3 installed on an Intel Mac  
> running OS X 10.5.2.
>
> I would be grateful if anyone can suggest what might be adrift and  
> what to do to get 'display' to work.
>
> Alan Fry
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