carsten_dominik@my-deja.com wrote: > Make the plot and axis routines handle DOUBLE values correctly. > I am an astronomer, and one out of two numbers I want to plot is > larger than 1.e37. I believe the direct graphics plotting routines in IDL 5.4 have been re-written to use double precision by default. Cheers, Liam. http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/~gumley