White Canvas Color

While you're designing your map in arcplot, you might find it useful to be able to see it with a white background, as it will on the plotter -- this helps to see the effect of colors. To set this up, before you start Arc, in UNIX enter the follow environment setting:

setenv CANVASCOLOR WHITE

Then when you go into Arcplot and start &stat 9999, you should see a white background. Lines that were displayed as white before will now display as black, as they do on the plotter.

If you want this to take effect every time you boot up, put it in your .cshrc file in your home directory. If you're brave, you can simply append this line to .cshrc as follows (don't forget the DOUBLE >>):

cat >>.cshrc
setenv CANVASCOLOR WHITE
^d

(that's control-d, right?)