Hi Richard,

./xfractint @test1.par/VsionOfaDistantSea

This par, which contains the formula core dumps. When I used "Poachers_Afoot" which uses a system formula it works. ./xfractint "@test2.par/Poachers_Afoot"

I can send you my scripts that run from a cron job if you want. The relevant part is this:

bin/xfractint -disk -geometry $2x$3 \ batch=yes savename=$stream.gif "@$stream.par/tmp"

The batch=yes makes it render the image and then exit immediately after it is done.

I am having trouble when the geometry gets top big. It immediately writes a blank gif and exits. I don't have time to debug now but I could put in debug statements to see where it fails. It may be a problem due to the fact I am running in a virtual machine instead of natively. Interesting, once (but only once) this command worked by generating the image of 1600x1200. ./xfractint -disk -geometry 1600x1200 batch=yes savename=test.gif "@test2.par/Poachers_Afoot" How is geometry supposed to work. If I tried 800x800 it instead generated an image which was 1068x800. Maybe my geometry isn't legal? Roger