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538 | I have a DFI Handy Scanner Model HS-3000Plus and a little bit of
software running under dos to use it. I'd like to make more extensive
use of this device (in particular, write a driver for it on unix).
So, can anyone give me a description of how to talk to this device. It
connects to the system via it's own interface card.
Any info would help, it can't be too difficult to talk to :-) | 2 |
5,064 | O
I also would like code or algorithms to do this.
In fact, I am interested in sources for code and/or algorithms that
convert 2D graphical objects into other 2D graphical objects that
will render into the same image. i.e. Bezier curves to B splines,
or splines to circular arc segments, or B splines to polgons, etc...
| 2 |
7,078 |
In your menu definition, put:
"Quit TWM" f.function "Execute and Quit"
Then define:
Function "Execute and Quit" {
!"some_program"
f.quit
}
--
Barry Margolin
System Manager, Thinking Machines Corp. | 2 |
5,025 |
I've recently joined the Motif world, so I'd like a similar tool for
Motif. I've bene used to the OpenWin one in the past and miss it.
Cheers,
[M][a][r][c] | 2 |
5,156 |
same here
I received similar information/advice about what appears to be the same problem
Benjamin has (and I still have).
NIS has all the information about the Macs
(I even put explicit entries in /etc/hosts to no avail).
Monitoring with 'snoop' on my Classic, the initial REXEC packet is sent to
the the SUN, which sends something to the correct Mac, but nothing appears
at the Mac.
'rexecd' is number one suspect, but it's more suble than the README suggests and
I haven't yet looked into it further.
--
callum.downie@brunel.ac.uk
Faculty of Technology, Brunel University, Uxbridge, UB8 3PH, UK
+44 895 274000 x2730 | 2 |
7,106 | Hi,
I've tried to get rid off XDM's ugly Login window by giving it a 'cool'
backgroundPixmap ressource. As Login is derived from Core, this should be
possible. Anyway, setting xlogin*backgroundPixmap:/a/b/c.xpm did not
produce any message of the form 'cannot convert String to Pixmap' and
explicitely registering such converter lead to nothing, too.
Any way to do it ?
| 2 |
2,673 |
Yes, Xhibition is for the X Window System. The X Window System Conference
remains the largest and most complete conference devoted to X. Nineteen full
and half day tutorials and thirty-six technical sessions over three days
provide huge amounts of information for X application developers. Add vendor
exhibits and a Product Presentation track to provide information on what
folks can purchase today, and you have a complete show focused on X11.
Speakers at Xhibition 93 include:
Bob Schiefler, Lu Abel, Mark Ackerman, Paul Asente, Doug Blewett,
Donna Converse, Jim Fulton, Oliver Jones, Keith Packard, Ralph Swick,
Doug Young, and many others.
Xhibition is growing (fortunately for us:-) and we have added some additional
conferences. Surveys that we have given have indicated additional topics of
interest. These include: object oriented technologies such as the Object
Management Group's ORB and CORBA; C++ as it applies to X; client server
technologies such as DCE; threads; databases- object oriented and relational;
and (not surprisingly when you look at the audience) Windows NT.
With the bulk of the Xhibition audience (and the UNIX community) developing
applications for in-house or custom use, a new 32-bit operating system from a
player as large as Microsoft needs to be evaluated. With MS Windows on so many
desktops, and the price of computing power dropping, its successor needs to be
evaluated. As corporations begin to look at NT, so must their developers and
suppliers.
The mission of the Xhibition technical conferences is to provide information
to the application developer and to the technology planner. The NT Conference
at Xhibition is designed to do just that. We worked with Microsoft to provide
the *only* conference this year specifically designed to show X and UNIX
developers the capabilities of Windows and NT. If you aren't sure that NT has
what you need for your application development or systems deployment, this is
the place to find out. Ask the folks from Microsoft, get them to show you
what you need. Conference attendees will receive NT Software Development
Kits- to bang on, evaluate, and generally to see for yourself.
I hope this doesn't sound like an NT commercial (it should sound like an
Xhibition commercial:-). I just want to reiterate that the Xhibition audience
is growing and Xhibition is growing along with it. The industry is a
confusing place at the moment with UNIX, COSE, NT, DCE, CORBA, and all of
the other acronyms sprouting up. Xhibition can help sort out the confusion.
-Aub Harden
Technical Program Manager
harden@ics.com
X H I B I T I O N The Conference and Trade
****** ***** Show for Corporate
* * * Software Development
****** ***
* * 201 Broadway
*** ***** Cambridge, MA 02139
Windows on Distributed Computing
June 7 - 11, San Jose, CA
xhibit@ics.com uunet!ics.com!xhibit
Voice: (617) 621-0060 Fax: (617) 621-9555 | 2 |
801 | ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
If JD Power and Associates did the survey, I would like an
anonymous ftp site to pick it up at. Only a sucker believes
an MS released survey results about an MS product. Ok--assume
that the results of the survey, whatever they are, are 100%
honest. If the results indicated extreme dissatisfaction with
the product, is MS going to tell us to stop buying MS-DOS 6.0
because it sux? :-) Sure....
Well, these "statistics" are to shut people up and add some
microscopic weight to MS' arguments. As I just said, you have
seen what automakers do. Who is going to believe Chrysler if
they tell us, "In a 'random' Chrysler-conducted survey..."
My theory about certain people is that they are convinced that
if a point is maintained long enough, it is true. After all,
what is the focus of this company? Information. Money and
information. Technology is, for some, an expedient toward
these ends. Why did Bill Gates drop out of college?
Was it because he couldn't afford it at the time? Was it
because (as the WSJ says) he couldn't wait to use what he
knew to go out and make money? Bill Gate's answer to this
question would be highly interesting. I await it.
I can't stomach Bill declaring himself a visionary and
using every available opportunity to build up the cult
around himself and then having MS sell DOS and Windoze
as their main stays.
--------------------------------------------- | 2 |
129 |
Could someone please post Roger Grywalski's response? Or point me to where
I could find it?
Thanks a lot,
S. Raj Chaudhury |
Dept. of Physics | raj@phys.ksu.edu
Kansas State University |
Manhattan, KS 66506 | | 2 |
3,143 | Try using Laser printer/copier paper, it works quite
well and is cheaper than HPspecial paper.
| 2 |
4,518 |
The May issue of PC/Computing page 246 has a Windows hint and tips for
just this thing. You have to edit the WIN.INI file and add a couple
of lines. I tried it and it works. I actually made my Title bar
and iconized text, and icon text smaller. On my monitor it works well.
You can select a larger font also. You edit the WIN.INI file with
a font name in your system directory. Read the article because I would
not want to retype it here in case I type errored and caused your
system problems.
C-ya..... /\/\artin | 2 |
5,799 |
I opened the file with a text editor and it looks like:
^Vnetwork storyboardpictPICT8BIM^E^......
I have already tried BinHex which does not seem to work.
Any other ideas?
--
| 2 |
5,936 | I got the following today from Gary Risebrough and it worked fine:
Excerpts from mail: 29-Apr-93 Re: ol{v}wm 3 virtual keybo..
ITO2@aodc.gov.au (554)
| 2 |
6,114 |
This pretty much confirms my original impression after reading
through the documentation on dos-6. The double space sounds nice,
but NOT on your primary disk!! I'll probably wind up making a
disk partition d: and doublespacing *it*, using it as an archive.
Probably would be useful on floppy disks as well. But on c:? Uh, uh...
[I particularly disliked the note that said something like "double
space is irreversible"].
--Cindy
--
Cindy Tittle Moore | 2 |
6,294 | I'm using BC++'s ObjectWindows (3.1), trying to resond to the left button
double click message WM_LBUTTONDBLCLK in a combo box. My codes look like:
class MyComboBox : public TComboBox
{
public:
MyComboBox(PTWindowsObject AParent, int ResourceId, WORD ATextLen) :
TComboBox(AParent, ResourceId, ATextLen) {};
virtual void WMLButtonDblClk(RTMessage Msg) = [WM_FIRST + WM_LBUTTONDBLCLK];
};
void MyComboBox::WMLButtonDblClk(RTMessage Msg)
{
... // responding to the message (selecting the item in the list box)
}
Anything wrong with my program? Any help would be appreciated. | 2 |
4,360 | To all netters,
In my last post that concerning about the CYRIX 486DLC CPU, I said the
benchmark program COMPTEST stated there is a bug in CYRIX CPUs. This is NOT
true and I must apologize to the author of COMPTEST. The actual program
that gives this report is F-PROT 2.07, a virus detection and removal
program. The report stated there is a bug in the Cx486SLC but not DLC.
Sorry, sorry, sorry... | 2 |
6,415 | [ to a .rle file ^^^^^^^]
I thought I'd reply to this, though I ain't brad. AT any case, a lot
of picture-file viewers that will convert, say, between .gif,etc, to
.bmp *will* convert to .rle. I Know for a fact that PaintShop
(shareware from cica; /desktop, I think, filename psVVV.zip (I think,
where VVV is the ver. number. If that's not true, let me know and I"ll
post a corection).
This, however, will write your .rle file with a .bmp extension, so you
have to rename it.
NOW, another thing....
this is from the windows' FAQ:
your file has to be less than 64 K
( at least that's what the faq says, but Mine wont work for more than
about 30...maybe they mend 32K, I don't know).
Your file has to fit VGA size (480 * 860, or whatever standard vga size
is.) If you use a non-vga screen (e.g. Cga, ega, svga, there is also a
way to do it, but I thing instead of vgalogo.lgo you use another file,
such as cgalogo.lgo, egalogo.lgo, or something. I'm not sure about
this, as I have a vga, but i'm sure you could find it in the faq (a
windows help ver. of which *is* available at cica, but don't konw the
filename).
ALSO....your .bmp has to be 16 COLOURS Or less.
These specs rule out some of the good .bmp's. I found cartoon drawings
work quite well as they have the advantage of looking good with little
memory.
Finally, REMEMBER TO SAVE YOUR CURRENT WIN.COM before, and put your
new win.com in the windows directory. Also, don't start windows from a
directory where another win.com is present, as *that* is used instead of
the one in the windows dir, and win. won't start.
Share this fairly, but don't take a slice of my pie (PF).
Mickey
| 2 |
5,224 | I am using OWL and want to display the output from a stream in a popup
window. Is there a way to perhaps redirect cout to a window? Or
alternatively set up a separate stream that supports output and be
able to display the stream output in an TEdit control?
Anyone ever done something like this?
-- | 2 |
3,499 | Hi.
I'm wonderring if it is possible to replace a single module, as XKeybind.o
in a shared library, as libX11.so in Suns OpenWindows. I tried to RTFM, but
I didn't get any wiser that way. Also, can I do the same on an RS6000 machine
running 3.2.2 (if it is possible at all). I know how to do it with real
libraries (ar). I am trying to replace XLookupString in the delivered
libraries, with another that does a few special things.
/Per
-- | 2 |
4,745 | Serial cables:
There are only three output signals: TD, DTR, and RTS.
There are five inputs signals: RD, DSR, DCD, CTS, and RI.
There are many differnt null modem requiremts as dictated by the software.
The IBM BIOS requires asserts DTR and RTS and then waits for both DSR and
CTS before sending. When a BIOS recieve call is made, it asserts DTR and
waits for DSR to become true (times out after a while and returns with an
error if DSR never becomes true). It requires CTS to be true for sending
AND recieving. Most communications packages bypass this and replace it
with their own protocol. The key is that each comm. package could very
well have different requirements.
My favorite cable works in many cases: short RTS to CTS at each end, but
also run RTS through to DCD at the opposite end. TD runs through to RD
and DTR runs through to DSR from both DTE's and of course SG goes through
to SG.
I have never had trouble with this null modem even though I have used it
with a comm. package that was expecting RTS to go to CTS instead of DCD.
The advantage of this cable is that it also works with the IBM BIOS. | 2 |
628 | I have a very large (3x5 feet) file in Macintosh Canvas v2.something
which I need to import into AutoCad 12 in the least disk-space intensive
way possible. (i.e. EPS is a big problem, since it took 1.3 MEG to encode
one page of the document) The file is entirely lines and words. I have
access to networked Macs & PC's, and ftp. Can anyone suggest how this might
be accomplished? Email replies, if you would, I don't read this group much.
Thanks in advance. | 2 |
4,279 | Yes we have the same problem with xinit. The problems seems to come from the
fact that the XOpenDisplay(":0") fails. If we try (on our machine
named godzilla)
setenv DISPLAY godzilla:0.0
Xibm&
xterm
It works fine, but the following will not work
setenv DISPLAY unix:0.0
Xibm&
xterm
Did we set a configuration option incorrectly? Thank you for any assistance
you can offer.
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Herb Hasler --- herb@iiasa.ac.at
International Institute for Applied Systems Anaylsis (IIASA)
A-2361 Laxemburg, Austria --- +43 2236 715 21 ext 548 | 2 |
4,885 | It was brought to my attention that there was an oversight in the SIGKids
Research Showcase Call for Participation and Entry Form.
Please note that the SIGKids Research Showcase is part of
SIGGRAPH '93, August 1-6, 1993 Anaheim, California.
Thank you,
Diane Schwartz
SIGKids Committee Member
Institute for the Learning Sciences
1890 Maple Avenue, Suite 150
Evanston, Illinois 60201 | 2 |
3,588 |
You don't mention your platform but Digital has a custom widget, NetEd,
which does exactly what you want to do. Cost is nominal 300 or so - call your
local office. The widget is supported on a variety of platforms and I heard
rumblings of porting to Sun, etc. so it may be worth the check. | 2 |
4,110 | Iuj el ".ie" (kiu lando?) demandis pri "bitmap"-oj, kaj iu el
".fi" (Finnlando) respondis, dirante pri libro en "Software Development
Kit". Eble, la demandinto *ne* havas la "elvolvilo por malmol-varoj".
(That was Esperanto.)
(Some from ".ie" asked about bitmaps, and some from ".fi" responded,
saying about a book int the "Software Development Kit". Possibly, the
asker does *not* have the development kit.) | 2 |
3,088 | I saw an ad for this and it basically is an advanced print manager...
it lets you monitor your printing more closely and comes with a bunch of
True type fonts... anyone have this? Good? Bad? Worth it?
| 2 |
1,336 | I have an application running in one window. In this application,
I'd like to iconize this window, and later deiconize back to window.
How could I do it? Your help would be appreciated. | 2 |
523 | Using the usersub stuff in perl, you can incorporate things like curses for
use in perl. I was wondering if anyone had done this with X (preferably
Motif), and if so, where I could get the source for it?
| 2 |
1,276 |
I was wondering if anyone knows of a graphics package for the PC that
will do compositing of a series of pictures?
What I mean by "compositing" is, say I have a live video clip
(digitized) panning around a living room, and a computer-generated
bird flying around the screen. I want to combine these two series of
pictures so that everywhere where the bird frames are black, I want
the living room picture to show through. Yes, I realize I can do this
with a genlock, and I do own a genlock, but I want to be able to do
manual compositing also. It's ok if I have to composite one frame at
a time; I assumed I'd have to do that anyway. But being able to
composite a series of frames would be even better.
I've looked around and I haven't found a PC package that will perform
this. Help, please!
If you can get the live animation and the computer-generated animation
into AutoDesk Animator .FLI or .FLC format, AutoDesk Animator will do
this for you. It can take one animation, make a certain color
"clear", and overlay it over another animation. I do not have a way
right now to convert .AVI or .MPG files to animator files. Animator
will also import a series of .GIF files to create an animation, so if
your video capture stuff can create this is might work. | 2 |
1,254 | hartzman@kilroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Les Hartzman) writes...
Les,
I am right now working on an MPR-II certified (Swedish standards for
low emissions) Hitachi Superscan 15 monitor. It's 1024x768, up to 72hz at
that res, and it got a good write-up for image quality in a recent (Feb.?)
issue of PC Magazine. As far as I know, very little fully matches a NEC in
image quality (at least according to the mags -- I can't tell any
difference between the two!), but I think NEC is low emissions on only one
of the two types. There's VLF (Very Low Frequency) and ELF (I think that's
Extremely Low Frequency). The MPR-II standards set strict limits on both.
But many comapnies, NEC included according to one article I read (I get a
bunch of mags so it's hard for me to remember which!), which claim "low
emissions" but not specifically "MPR-II Compliant" or "MPR-II Certified"
only control for one, usually VLF, and ignore the other.
So, the NEC probably has higher overall image quality (I consis-
tently hear it rated as the best or close to the best), but not as low
emissions as the Hitachi. I like my image quality, but for all I know you
may be more discerning. Good luck!
- Mitch
v063kcbp@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu
| 2 |
1,315 | Hello World.
In posts I've heard about all of the bugs in the DSS24X and the drivers.
Now I hear that Diamond ships BIOS replacements to some people, that fixes
a lot of problems as well as new drivers. Can anyone tell me how to get mine? | 2 |
570 | )Many high-end graphics cards come with C source code for doing basic graphics
)sorts of things (change colors, draw points/lines/polygons/fills, etc.). Does
)such a library exist for generic VGA graphics cards/chips, hopefully in the
)public domain? This would be for the purpose of compiling under a non-DOS
)operating system running on a standard PC.
Check the server code for X11R5. (or "XFree86") | 2 |
5,391 |
Well that may be true. However, the man page for pageview for OW 2.0
does not mention about DSC compliance. In any event, the point here
is that if you try to display some PS files using pageview you will
find out that it's not a practical tool. | 2 |
1,265 | :Read the xterm's manual pages for more informations about the avaliable
:actions of xterm. Read the FAQ and get a good book on customizing your
:X applications.
Okay, I will byte. Could someone provide more info on a 'good book on
customizing your X applicaitons'? I am in search of one which does NOT
expect the reader to have the X11 source code memorized (or even available
online!)
| 2 |
948 | ^^^^^^^^^^^
Exquise me!? Since when does mankind consider twice to be equal??
| 2 |
6,724 |
It's the video card. It's 8514/A compatible, which means it uses the
same i/o addresses as com4.
--jh | 2 |
1,992 |
I own a PC FanCard II, which is a slightly different beast. It's a long card
that plugs into an 8 or 16 bit slot and contains two muffin fans. It requires
no extra cabling. I had a 286 that was experiencing some problems due to
heat. The FanCard made the system run cool enough so that the problem no
longer appears. It's supposed to keep the internal temperature in the range
of 75-95 degrees Fahrenheit. According to the maker's (M.S. Tech)
advertisements, the US Army used a bunch of these to keep their PCs running
(w/o a/c) in Desert Storm. I can't vouch for that. However, I am a satisfied
customer. And I have no other connection with the maker or the mail-order
house (Lyben (313) 268-8100).
Hope this helps, | 2 |
6,232 | Does anyone have any information or better, first-hand experience,
of the new Epson bubblejet printer - Stylus 800??
I'm particularly interested in hearing how well it works under Windows;
I presume that a special printer driver is required - is it supplied
as standard? Is it able to print everything that a standard Postscript
laserprinter could??
Many thanks for any replies - George | 2 |
5,969 | In <1t7529$agf@agate.berkeley.edu> miyamoto@ucsee.Berkeley.EDU (Carleton
You're right.
You cannot read or write a Mac or Apple II 800K 3.5" disk or Apple II
5.25" disk without extra hardware. However, Mac 1.44MB disks can be read
and written in a PC 3.5" HD drive with software only. | 2 |
6,289 | ---
Hello!
We want to configure our X11R5 sytem (i486 33Mhz running BSD-like UNIX)
comming up with a chooser menu with different machines on it (works) an then
connect to them. But the only connection works is localhost!
An 'X -indirect <machine>' works very well!
The configuration:
- starting the 'xdm' at boot time with no servers specified
in Xservers
- starting the X-server at boot time with X -indirect localhost
---> the chooser menu appears with the machines named in
Xacces bye
'* CHOOSER <machine1> <machine2> ... BROADCAST
- the number of users on this machines and the load is
displayed correct
- selecting an other machine than my own host the X-server
starts and nothing happens, after a time out the CHOOSER menu
appears again.
I know the xdm bug in X11R4, but all machines running X11R5
Please help
Lars
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7,233 | I just read an article in another group that mentions this. I have
never heard of the VCPI memory standard. Can someone explain what
this is??? Thanks
| 2 |
3,722 | Hello:
Do you know about a mouse odometer for windows? I have seen one for the
Mac. It is quite fun. It records the distance, in miles, that the
travels during use.
Thanks in advance:
Steve
| 2 |
5,868 |
What is PAS16? Any articles (or reviews) describing it?
--
Penio Penev x7423 (212)327-7423 (w) Internet: penev@venezia.rockefeller.edu | 2 |
2,373 |
The alt.* hierarchie is created for 2 purposes:
1. For groups which do not fit under the comp.* or other 'official'
hierarchies
2. For the fast creation of hot new newsgroups like alt.gulf.war
Because there is no voting process or any other control facilities,
sites are free to decide not to carry (some of) the alt groups.
Therefore, it is (I think) desirable to try to create comp.graphics.
{raytrace, rendering or whatever} and not an alt-group | 2 |
427 | I writing a program that uses the parallel port. My problem is that I need to
generate an interrupt when the ack line is pulsed. I can get this to occur
once, but am unable to generate succesive interrupts.
Can someone suggest how I may resolve this problem. | 2 |
1,863 | ...
This is a common misconception, shared my many manufacturers, programmers,
and users alike. COM3, for example, is simply the third equipped COMM
port, not necessarily the one with I/O address 3E8. The BIOS just
searches sequentially through a set of potential COMM port addresses. The
first equipped port it finds will become COM1, etc. If you're playing by
the rules, you can't have a COM4 unless you have a COM3 equipped. The set
of "standard" (whatever that means) port addresses merely reflects the
order in which the BIOS searches the I/O address space in its search for
serial ports.
So, what you have is indeed COM3 at the non-standard address 2E8. Were
this address in the 4th table slot instead, programs which query the BIOS
to determine the number of installed COMM ports would not find it, as the
field in the BIOS data area which contains this number would indicate that
there are but 3 COMM ports installed. (Frankly, I don't know of a simgle
program that would actually have a problem with this.)
| 2 |
4,574 | controler
prodrive
you
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want
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money.
cable.
and
the
Is this true??? I was under the impression that people on the net had both
SCSI and IDE working together.
| 2 |
3,388 | I need triangulized data of some nice looking model with some
texture mapping. It would be better if the parametric values
of each vertex( for the surface before triangulized ) are
avaliable along with the Euclidean points so that we
could use them for texture mapping. | 2 |
3,094 | unsubscribe
| 2 |
324 | Hello,
I was wondering if anyone knew of an interface to od ( octal dump ), I assume
it would be called xod. Actually, any viewer for a core file will do.
I looked at export ( @ mit ) in the index of /contrib, but didn't find anything
relevant.
| 2 |
3,090 | Intro to ACCESS.bus (RE: the ACCESS.bus Software Creator's
Contest Announcement)
WHAT IS ACCESS.bus?
ACCESS.bus is a new open industry standard for computer
peripheral connectivity. ACCESS.bus is a serial protocol that
uses simple, low-cost I2C technology to link multiple devices to
a single PC port. Peripheral devices such as keyboards or
keypads, locators (Mice, Trackballs, Joysticks), printers, VR
gloves, digitizers, sensors, actuators or data transmitters and
others can be easily daisy chained to the host PC. Applications
such as CAD/CAM, Data Acquisition, Simulation, Virtual Reality,
Multiple-Player/Single PC Games, Education and many, many more
can now take advantage of ACCESS.bus, the technology that puts
Plug and Play on every PC.
The ACCESS.bus offers advantages to end-users and developers of
systems and peripherals. Multiple devices connect to the host
computer with only one port. Common communication methods for a
number of device types lead to simplified hardware and software
development. As an open standard, ACCESS.bus enables cross-
platform use of the same device.
ACCESS.bus TECHNOLOGICAL DESCRIPTION:
=====================================
ACCESS.bus technology is an open specification, enabling anyone
to implement it on host systems or in peripheral devices without
fee or royalty.
ACCESS.bus has a bus topology architecture. That is, a single
host can accommodate up to 125 peripheral devices. ACCESS.bus
data rate is 100 Kbits/sec.
ACCESS.bus Physical Layer
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
ACCESS.bus is a serial bus architecture, based on I2C hardware
protocol, with one data line and one clock line.
Standard low-cost I2C microcontrollers handle bit-level
handshaking, including automatic arbitration and clock
synchronization.
ACCESS.bus Software Protocols
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
The ACCESS.bus communication protocol is composed of three
levels: I2C Protocol, Base Protocol, and Application Protocol.
I2C PROTOCOL: This simple and efficient protocol defines
arbitration among contending masters without losing data. I2C
provides for cooperative synchronization of bus partners with
different clock rates. Bus transactions include addressing,
framing of bits into bytes, and byte acknowledgment by the
receiver.
BASE PROTOCOL: Establishes the asymmetrical interconnect between
a host computer and multiple peripherals. The host becomes the
ACCESS.bus manager. The Base Protocol defines the format of an
ACCESS.bus message envelope, which is an I2C bus transaction with
additional semantics, including checksum.
Unique features of the Base Protocol are auto-addressing and hot
plugging. Auto-addressing assigns devices with unique bus
addresses, without the need for setting jumpers or switches. Hot
plugging is the ability to attach and detach devices while the
system is running, without rebooting.
APPLICATION PROTOCOL: This is the highest level of the ACCESS.bus
protocol which defines message semantics specific to particular
types of devices. Each type requires a different Application
Protocol. Three broad device types have been identified:
keyboards, locators, and text devices.
ACCESS.bus support on the PC
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
All three levels of the ACCESS.bus protocol are supported on the
PC. An add-on card implements the physical layer and uses the
base protocol to communicate with physical ACCESS.bus devices.
An ACCESS.bus Manager - TSR under DOS and a DLL under Windows 3.1
- controls the operation of the physical layer and interacts with
the ACCESS.bus device drivers. Drivers are available for
multiple ACCESS.bus keyboards, locators and printers for DOS and
Windows 3.1. Also available are C language source code examples
of the interface from applications to the device drivers.
To Contact ABIG (the ACCESS.bus Industry Group): | 2 |
6,915 | I don't seem to be able to get window positions reliably through
the XView xv_get() function:
x = (int) xv_get(my_frame, XV_X);
y = (int) xv_get(my_frame, XV_Y);
For example, if I set XV_X & XV_Y to 50,50 the frame comes up
in the correct position, with the top left corner (the size
handle) at 50,50. xv_get() returns 50,50 as well. But later on
xv_get() returns 5,25 without any intervening xv_set(my_frame,
XV_?). My frame is fitted around a canvas, and it turns out
(by measuring on the screen) that 5,25 is the position of the
first pixel in my canvas relative to the frame's origin. What
gives? Any help most appreciated!
Derek
P.S. On a related subject, is there any way of querying the
window manager as to the thickness of borders it puts around
frames, etc.?
----------------------------------------------------------- | 2 |
5,706 | I have a group of GIF images that each contain 6 small images in
the same place on all the images. I need a program to crop out the
small images to a new GIF file. All the programs I can find make me
use the mouse or keyboard to define the cropping coordinates. Is there
a program out there for a PC that can take the crop coordinates on
the command line? | 2 |
5,840 | I know that there is a list of the best shareware and public domain
programs for Windows at the cica ftp site, but unfortunately it is a
year old. The list author made it sound like the list was going to be
updated every month. Is it still being updated? Does anyone else
compile a similar list?
Also are there any individual suggestions as to what the best
shareware/public domain programs are? I'm interested in good software
in just about every category (please try and include the ftp site and
exact file name, if possible, in your post).
Thanks,
Sam
--
siockman@leland.stanford.edu | 2 |
611 | please subscribe me. | 2 |
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Last-modified: 1993/04/27
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Last Change : 27 April 1993
11. Scene generators/geographical data/Maps/Data files
======================================================
DEMs (Digital Elevation Models)
-------------------------------
DEMs (Digital Elevation Models) as well as other cartographic data
[huge] is available from spectrum.xerox.com [192.70.225.78], /pub/map.
Contact:
Lee Moore -- Webster Research Center, Xerox Corp. --
Voice: +1 (716) 422 2496
Arpa, Internet: Moore.Wbst128@Xerox.Com
[ Check also on ncgia.ucsb.edu (128.111.254.105), /pub/dems -- nfotis ]
Many of these files are also available on CD-ROM selled by USGS:
"1:2,000,000 scale Digital Line Graph (DLG) Data". Contains datas
for all 50 states. Price is about $28, call to or visit in offices
in Menlo Park, in Reston, Virginia (800-USA-MAPS).
The Data User Services Division of the Bureau of the Census also has
data on CD-ROM (TSO standard format) that is derived from USGS
1:100,000 map data. Call (301) 763-4100 for more info or they have
a BBS at (301) 763-1568.
[ From Dr.Dobbs #198 March 1993: ]
"The U.S. Defense Mapping Agency, in cooperation with their counterpart
agencies in CANADA, the U.K., and Australia, have released the Digital Chart
of the World (DCW). This chart consists of over 1.5 gigabytes of reasonable
quality vector data distributed on four CD-ROMS. .... includes coastlines,
rivers, roads, railrays, airports,cities, towns, spot elevations, and depths,
and over 100,000 place names."
It is ISO9660 compatible and only $200.00 available from:
U.S. Geological Survey
P.O. Box 25286
Denver Federal Center
Denver, CO 80225
Digital Distribution Services
Energy, Mines, and Resources Canada
615 Booth Street
Ottawa, ON
K1A 0E9 Canada
Director General of Military Survey
(Survey 3)
Elmwood Avenue
Feltham, Middlesex
TW13 7AH United Kingdom
Director of Survey, Australian Army
Department of Defense
Campbell Park Offices (CP2-4-24)
Campbell ACT 2601 Australia
Fractal Landscape Generators
----------------------------
Public Domain:
Many people have written fractal landscape generators. for example
for the Mac some of these generators were written by
pdbourke@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Paul D. Bourke).
Many of the programs are available from the FTP sites and mail
archive servers. Check with Archie.
Commercial:
Vista Pro 3.0 for the Amiga from Virtual Reality Labs -- list price
is about $100. Their address is:
VRL
2341 Ganador court
San Luis Obispo,
CA 93401
Telephone or FAX (805) 545-8515
Scenery Animator (also for the Amiga) is of the same caliber with Vista Pro 2.
Check with:
Natural Graphics
P.O. Box 1963
Raklin, CA 95677
Phone (916) 624-1436
Don't forget to ask about companion programs and data disks/tapes.
Vista Pro 3 has been ported to the PCs.
CIA World Map II
----------------
[ NOTE: this database is quite out of date, and not topologically structured.
If you need a standard for world cartographic data, wait for the
Digital Chart of the World. This 1:1M database has been produced from
the Defense Mapping Agency's ONCs and will be available, together with
searching and viewing software, on a number of CD-ROMs later this summer. ]
Check into HANAUMA.STANFORD.EDU and UCSD.EDU (see ftp list above)
The CIA database consists of coastlines, rivers and political boundaries
in the form of line strokes. Also on hanauma.stanford.edu is a 720x360
array of elevation data, containing one ieee floating point number for
every half degree longitude and latitude.
A program for decoding the database, mfil, can be found on the machine
pi1.arc.umn.edu (137.66.130.11).
There's another program, which reads a compressed CIA Data Bank file and
builds a PHIGS hierachical structure. It uses a PHIGS extension known as
polyline sets for performance, but you can use regular polylines. Ask
Joe Stewart <joes@lpi.liant.com>.
The raw data at Stanford require the vplot package to be able to view it.
(was posted in comp.sources.unix). To be more exact, you'll have to
compile just the libvplot routines, not the whole package.
NCAR data
---------
NCAR (National Center for Atmospheric Research) has many types of
terrain data, ranging from elevation datasets at
various resolutions, to information about soil types, vegetation, etc.
This data is not free -- they charge from $40 to $90 or more, depending
on the data volume and media (exabyte tape, 3480 cartridge, 9-track tape,
IBM PC floppy, and FTP transfer are all available). Their data archive
is mostly research oriented, not hobbyist oriented. For more information,
email to ilana@ncar.ucar.edu.
UNC data tapes with voxel data
--------------
There are 2 "public domain" tapes with data for the comparison and
testing of various volume rendering algorithms (mainly MRI and CT
scans). These tapes are distributed by the SoftLab of UNC @ Chapel Hill.
(softlab@cs.unc.edu)
The data sets (volume I and II) are also available via anonymous FTP from
omicron.cs.unc.edu [128.109.136.159] in pub/softlab/CHVRTD
NASA
----
Many US agencies such as NASA publish CD-ROMs with many altimetry data
from various space missions, eg. Viking for Mars, Magellan for Venus,
etc. Especially for NASA, I would suggest to call the following
address for more info:
National Space Science Date Center
Goddard Space Flight Center
Greenbelt, Maryland 20771
Telephone: (301) 286-6695
Email address: request@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov
The data catalog (*not* the data itself) is available online.
Internet users can telnet to nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov (128.183.10.4) and log
in as 'NODIS' (no password).
You can also dial in at (301)-286-9000 (300, 1200, or 2400 baud, 8 bits,
no parity, one stop). At the "Enter Number:" prompt, enter MD and
carriage return. When the system responds "Call Complete," enter a few
more carriage returns to get the "Username:" and log in as 'NODIS' (no
password).
NSSDCA is also an anonymous FTP site, but no comprehensive list of
what's there is available at present.
Earth Sciences Data
-------------------
There's a listing of anonymous FTP sites for earth science data, including
imagery. This listing is called "Earth Sciences Resources on Internet",
and you can get it via anonymous FTP from csn.org [128.138.213.21]
in the directory COGS under the name "internet.resources.earth.sci"
Some sites include:
aurelie.soest.hawaii.edu [128.171.151.121]: pub/avhrr/images - AVHRR images
ames.arc.nasa.gov [128.102.18.3]: pub/SPACE/CDROM - images from
Magellan and Viking missions etc.
pub/SPACE/Index contains a listing of files available in the whole
archive (the index is about 200K by itself). There's also an
e-mail server for the people without Internet access: send a letter
to archive-server@ames.arc.nasa.gov (or ames!archive-server). In the
subject of your letter (or in the body), use commands like:
send SPACE Index
send SPACE SHUTTLE/ss01.23.91
(Capitalization is important! Only text files are handled by the
email server at present)
vab02.larc.nasa.gov [128.155.23.47]: pub/gifs/misc/landsat -
Landsat photos in GIF and JPEG format
[ It was shut down - nfotis; anyone has a copy of this archive?? ]
Others
------
Daily values of river discharge, streamflow, and daily weather data is
available from EarthInfo, 5541 Central Ave., Boulder CO 80301. These
disks are expensive, around $500, but there are quantity discounts.
(303) 938-1788.
Check vmd.cso.uiuc.edu [128.174.5.98], the wx directory carries
data regarding surface analysis, weather radar, and sat view pics in
GIF format (updated hourly)
pioneer.unm.edu [129.24.9.217] is the Space and Planetary Image Facility
(located on the University of New Mexico campus) FTP server. It provides
Anonymous FTP access to >150 CD-ROMS with data/images.
A disk with earthquake data, topography, gravity, geopolitical info
is available from NGDC (National Geophysical Data Center), 325 Broadway,
Boulder, CO 80303. (303) 497-6958.
EOSAT (at least in the US) now sells Landsat MSS data older than two years
old for $200 per scene, and they have been talking about a similar deal
for Landsat TM data. The MSS data are 4 bands, 80 meter resolution.
Check out anonymous FTP to ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu in
UNIX/PolyView/alpha-shape for a tool that creates convex hulls
alpha-shapes (a generalization of the convex hull) from 3D point sets.
The GRIPS II (Gov. Raster Image Processing Software) CD-ROM
is available from CD-ROM Inc. at 1-800-821-5245 for $49.
Code for viewing ADRG (Arc Digitised Raster Graphics) files is
available on the GRIPS II CD-ROM. The U.S. Army Engineer
Topographic Labs (Juan Perez) code is also available via FTP
( adrg.zip archive in spectrum.xerox.com )
NRCC range data
---------------
Rioux M., Cournoyer L. "The NRCC Three-Dimensional Image Data Files",
Tech. Report, CNRC 29077, National Research Council Canada,
Ottawa, Canada, 1988
[ From what I understand, these data are from a laser range finder,
and you can a copy for research purposes ]
==========================================================================
12. 3D scanners - Digitized 3D Data
===================================
a. Cyberware Labs, Monterey, CA, manufactures a 3D color laser digitizer
which can be used to model parts of, or a complete, human body.
They run a service bureau also, so they can digitize models for you.
Address:
Cyberware Labs, Inc
8 Harris Ct, Suite 3D
Monterey, CA 93940
Phone: (408)373-1441, Fax: (408)373-3582
b. Polhemus makes a 6D input device (actually a couple of models)
that senses position (3D) and *orientation* (+3D) based on electromagnetic
field interference. This equipment is also incorporated in the
VPL Dataglove.
This hardware is also called ISOTRACK, from Keiser Aerospace.
Ascension Technology makes a similar 3D input device.
There is a company, Applied Sciences(?), that makes a 3D input
device (position only) based on speed of sound triangulation.
c. A company that specializes in digitizing is Viewpoint. You can ask
for Viewpoint's _free_ 100 page catalog full of ready to
ship datasets from categories such as cars, anatomy, aircraft,sports,
boats, trains, animals and others. Though these objects are
quite expensive, the cataloge is nevertheless of interest for it
has pictures of all the available objects in wireframe , polygon mesh.
Contact:
Viewpoint,
870 West Center,
Orem, Utah 84057
ph# 801-224-2222
fax# 801-224-2272
1-800-DATASET
------
Some addresses for companies that make digitizers:
Ascension Technology
Bird, Flock of Birds, Big Bird: 6d trackers
P.O. Box 527,
Burlington, VT 05402
Phone: (802) 655-7879, Fax: (802) 655-5904
Polhemus Incorporated
Digitizer: 6d trackers
P.O. Box 560, Hercules Dr.
Colchester, Vt. 05446
Tel: (802) 655-3159
Logitech Inc.
Red Baron, ultrasonic 6D mouse
6506 Kaiser Dr.
Freemont, CA 94555
Tel: (415) 795-8500w
Shooting Star Technology
Mechanical Headtracker
1921 Holdom Ave.
Burnaby, B.C. Canada V5B 3W4
Tel: (604) 298-8574
Fax: (604) 298-8580
Spaceball Technologies, Inc.
Spaceball: 6d stationary input device
600 Suffolk Street
Lowell, MA, 01854
Tel: (508) 970-0330
Fax: (508) 970-0199
Tel in Mountain View: (415) 966-8123
Transfinite Systems
Gold Brick: PowerGlove for Macintosh
P.O. Box N
MIT Branch Post Office
Cambridge, MA 02139-0903
Tel: (617) 969-9570
email: D2002@AppleLink.Apple.com
VPL Research, Inc.
EyePhone: head-mounted display
DataGlove: glove/hand input device
VPL Research Inc.
950 Tower Lane
14th Floor
Foster City, CA 94404
Tel: (415) 312-0200
Fax: (415) 312-9356
SimGraphics Engineering
Flying Mouse: 6d input device
1137 Huntington Rd. Suite A-1
South Pasadena, CA 91030-4563
(213) 255-0900
========================================================================
13. Background imagery/textures/datafiles
=========================================
First, check in the FTP places that are mentioned in the FAQ or in the FTP
list above.
24-bit scanning:
----------------
Get a good 24-bit scanner, like Epson's. Suggested is an SCSI port for
speed. Eric Haines had a suggestion in RT News, Volume 4, #3 :
scan textures for wallpapers and floor coverings, etc. from doll
house supplies.
So you have a rather cheap way to scan patterns that don't have
scaling troubles associated with real materials and scanning area.
Books with textures:
--------------------
Find some houses/books/magazines that carry photographic material.
Educorp, 1-619-536-9999, sells CD-ROMS with various imagery - also
a wide variety of stock art is available.
Stock art from big-name stock art houses, such as Comstock,
UNIPHOTO, and Metro Image Base, is available.
In Italy, there's a company called Belvedere that makes such books
for the purpose of clipping their pages for inclusion in your
graphics work. Their address is:
Edition Belvedere Co. Ltd.,
00196 Rome Italy,
Piazzale Flaminio, 19
Tel. (06) 360-44-88, Fax (06) 360-29-60
Texture Libraries:
------------------
a. Mannikin Sceptre Graphics announced TexTiles, a set of 256x256 24-bit
textures. Initial shipments in 24-bit IFF (for Amigas), soon in 24-bit
TIFF format. Algorithmically built for tiled surfaces. SRP is $40 / volume
(each volume = 40 images @ 10 disks). Demo disks for $5 are available.
Contact:
Mannikin Sceptre Graphics
1600 Indiana Ave.
Winter Park, FL 32789
Phone: (407) 384-9484
FAX: (407) 647-7242
b. ESSENCE is a library of 65 (sixty-five) new algoritmic textures for Imagine
by Impulse, Inc. These textures are FULLY compatible with the floating point
versions of Imagine 2.0, Imagine 1.1, and even Turbo Silver.
Written by Steve Worley.
For more info contact:
Essence Info
Apex Software Publishing
405 El Camino Real Suite 121
Menlo Park CA 94025 USA
[ What about Texture City ?? ]
==========================================================================
14. Introduction to rendering algorithms
========================================
a. Ray-Tracing:
---------------
I assume you have a general understanding of Computer Graphics. No? Then read
some of the books that the FAQ contains. For Ray-Tracing, I would
suggest:
An Introduction to Ray Tracing, Andrew Glassner (ed.), Academic Press
1989, ISBN 0-12-286160-4
Note that I have not read the book, but I feel that you can't be wrong
using his book. An errata list was posted in comp.graphics by Eric Haines
(erich@eye.com)
There's a more concise reference also:
Roman Kuchkuda , UNC @ Chapel Hill: "An Introduction to Ray Tracing", in
"Theoretical Foundations for Computer Graphics and CAD", ed. R.A.E.Earnshaw,
NATO AS, Vol. F-40., pp. 1039-1060. Printed by Springer-Verlag, 1988.
It contains code for a small, but fundamentally complete ray-tracer.
b. Z-buffer (depth-buffer)
--------------------------
A good reference is:
_Procedural Elements for Computer Graphics_, David F. Rogers,
McGraw-Hill, New York, 1985, pages 265-272 and 280-284.
c. Others:
----------
???
[ More info is needed -- nfotis ]
========================================================================
15. Where can I find the geometric data for the:
================================================
a. Teapot ?
-----------
"Displays on Display" column of IEEE CG&A Jan '87 has the whole
story about origin of the Martin Newell's teapot. The article also has
the bezier patch model and a Pascal program to display the wireframe
model of the teapot.
IEEE CG&A Sep '87 in Jim Blinn's column "Jim Blinn's Corner" describes
an another way to model the teapot; Bezier curves with rotations for
example are used.
The OFF and SPD packages have these objects, so you're advised to get
them to avoid typing the data yourself. The OFF data is triangles at
a specific resolution (around 8x8[x4 triangles] meshing per patch).
The SPD package provides the spline patch descriptions and performs a
tessellation at any specified resolution.
b. Space Shuttle ?
------------------
Tolis Lerios <tolis@nova.stanford.edu> has built a list of Space Shuttle
datafiles. Here's a summary (From his sci.space list):
model1:
A modified version of the newsgroup model (model2)
406 vertices (296 useful, i.e. referred to in the polygon descriptions.)
389 polygons (233 3-vertex, 146 4-vertex, 7 5-vertex, 3 6-vertex).
Payload doors non-existent.
Units: unknown.
Simon Marshall (S.Marshall@sequent.cc.hull.ac.uk) has a copy. He
said there is no proprietary information associated with it.
model2:
The newsgroup model, in OFF format. You can find it in
gondwana.ecr.mu.oz.au , file pub/off/objects/shuttle.geo
hanauma.stanford.edu , /pub/graphics/Comp.graphics/objects/shuttle.data
model3:
The triangles' model.
This model is stored in several files, each defining portions of the model.
Greg Henderson (henders@infonode.ingr.com) has a copy. He did
not mention any restriction on the model's distribution.
model4:
The NASA model.
The file starts off with a header line containing three real numbers,
defining the offsets used by Lockheed in their simulations:
<x offset> <y offset> <z offset>
From then on, the file consists of a sequence of polygon descriptions
3473 vertices.
2748 polygons (407 3-vertex, 2268 4-vertex, 33 5-vertex, 14 6-vertex,
10 7-vertex, 8 8-vertex, 8 12-vertex, 2 13-vertex, 2 15-vertex,
17 16-vertex, 2 17-vertex, 2 18-vertex, 3 19-vertex, 8 24-vertex).
Payload doors closed.
Units: inches.
Jon Berndt (jon@l14h11.jsc.nasa.gov) seems to be responsible for the model
Proprietary info: unknown
model5:
The old shuttle model.
The file consists of a sequence of polygon descriptions.
104 vertices.
452 polygons (11 3-vertex, 41 4-vertex).
Payload doors open.
Units: meters.
We have been using this model at STAR Labs, Stanford University, for
some years now. Contact me (tolis@nova.stanford.edu) or my supervisor
Scott Williams (scott@star5.stanford.edu) if you want a copy.
========================================================================
16. Image annotation software
=============================
a. Touchup runs in Sunview and is pretty good. It reads in
rasterfiles, but even if your image isn't normally stored
in rasterfile format you could use screendump to make it a
rasterfile.
b. Idraw (part of Stanford's InterViews distribution) can handle some
image formats in addition to being a MacDraw like tool. I'm not
sure exactly what they are.
You can ftp the idraw's binary from interviews.stanford.edu.
c. Tgif is another MacDraw like tool that can handle X11 bitmap (xbm)
and X11 pixmap (xpm) formats. If the image you have is in formats
other than xbm or xpm, you can get the pbmplus toolkit to convert
things like gif or even some Macintosh formats to xpm.
Tgif's sources are available in the pub directory on cs.ucla.edu
(Version 2.12 of tgif at patchlevel 7 plus patch8 and patch9)
d. Use the editimage facility of KHOROS (see below).
This is just one utility in the overall system- you can essentially do all
your image processing and macdraw-type graphics using this package.
e. You might be able to get by with PBMPlus. pbmtext gives you text output
bitmaps which can be overlaid on top of your image.
f. 'ice' requires Sun hardware running OpenWindows 3.It's a PostScript-based
graphical editor,and it's available for anonymous ftp from Internet host
eo.soest.hawaii.edu (128.171.151.12). Requires Sun C++ 2.0 and
two other locally developed packages, the LXT library (an Xlib-based
toolkit) and a small C++ class library. All files (pub/ice.tar.Z,
pub/lxt.tar.Z and pub/ldgoc++.tar.Z) are available in compressed
tar format. pub/ice.tar.Z contains a README that gives installation
instructions, as well as an extensive man page (ice.1).
A statically-linked compressed executable pub/ice-sun4.Z for
SPARC systems is also available for ftp.
All software is the property of Columbia University and may not
be redistributed without permission.
ice means Image Composition Environment and it's an imaging tool that
allows raster images to be combined with a wide variety of
PostScript annotations in WYSIWYG fashion via X11 imaging
routines and NeWS PostScript rasterizing.
g. Use ImageMagick to annotate an image from your X server. Pick the
position of your text with the cursor and choose your font and pen
color from a pull-down menu. ImageMagick can read and write many
of the more popular image formats. ImageMagick is available as
export.lcs.mit.edu: contrib/ImageMagick.tar.Z or at your nearest
X11 archive.
========================================================================
17. Scientific visualization stuff
==================================
X Data Slice (xds)
-------------------
Bundled with the X11 distribution from MIT,
in the contrib directory. Available at ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu [141.142.20.50]
(either as a source or binaries for various platforms).
National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) Tool Suite
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Platforms: Unix Workstations (DEC, IBM, SGI, Sun)
Apple MacIntosh
Cray supercomputers
Availability: Now available. Source code in the public domain.
FTP from ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu.
Contact: National Center for Supercomputing Applications
Computing Applications Building
605 E. Springfield Ave.
Champaign, IL 61820
Cost: Free (zero dollars).
The suite includes tools for 2D image and 3D scene analysis and visualization.
The code is actively maintained and updated.
Spyglass
--------
They sell commercial versions of the NCSA tools. Examples are:
Spyglass Dicer (3D volumetric data analysis package)
Platform: Mac
Spyglass Transform (2D data analysis package)
Platforms: Mac, SGI, Sun, DEC, HP, IBM
Contact:
Spyglass, Inc.
P.O. Box 6388
Champaign, IL 61826
(217) 355-6000
KHOROS 1.0 Patch 5
------------------
Available via anonymous ftp at pprg.eece.unm.edu (129.24.24.10).
cd to /pub/khoros to see what is available. It is HUGE (> 100 MB), but good.
Needs Unix and X11R4. Freely copied (NOT PD), complete with sources
and docs. Very extensive and at its heart is visual programming.
Khoros components include a visual programming language, code
generators for extending the visual language and adding new application
packages to the system, an interactive user interface editor, an
interactive image display package, an extensive library of image and
signal processing routines, and 2D/3D plotting packages.
See comp.soft-sys.khoros on Usenet and the relative FAQ for more info....
Contact:
The Khoros Group
Room 110 EECE Dept.
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131
Email: khoros-request@chama.eece.unm.edu
MacPhase
--------
Analysis & Visualization Application for the Macintosh.
Operates on 1D and 2D data arrays. Import/Export several different file
formats. Several different plotting options such as gray scale,
color raster, 3D Wire frame, 3D surface, contour, vector, line, and
combinations. FFTs, filtering, and other math functions, color look up
editor, array calculator, etc. Shareware, available via anonymous ftp from
sumex-aim.stanford.edu in the info-mac/app directory.
For other information contact Doug Norton (e-mail: 74017.461@@compuserve.com)
IRIS Explorer
-------------
It's an application creation system developed by Silicon
Graphics that provides visualisation and analysis functionality for
computational scientists, engineers and other scientists. The Explorer
GUI allows users to build custom applications without having to write
any, or a minimal amount of, traditonal code. Also, existing code can
be easily integrated into the Explorer environment. Explorer currently
is available now on SGI and Cray machines, but will become available on
other platforms in time. [ Bundled with every new SGI machine, as far as
I know]
See comp.graphics.explorer or comp.sys.sgi for discussion of the package.
There are also two FTP servers for related stuff, modules etc.:
ftp.epcc.ed.ac.uk [129.215.56.29]
swedishchef.lerc.nasa.gov [139.88.54.33] - mirror of the UK site
apE
---
Back in the 'old good days', you could get apE for nearly free.
Now has gone commercial and the following vendor supplies it:
TaraVisual Corporation
929 Harrison Avenue
Columbus, Ohio 43215
Tel: 1-800-458-8731 and (614) 291-2912
Fax: (614) 291-2867
Cost:
$895 (plus tax); runtime version with a site-license for a single user
(at a time), no limit on the number of machines in a cluster.
$895 includes support/maintenance and upgrades.
Source code more. Additional user licenses $360.
The name of the package has become apE III (TM).
Khoros is very similar to apE on philosophy, as are AVS and Explorer.
AVS
---
See also:
comp.graphics.avs
Platforms: CONVEX, CRAY, DEC, Evans & Sutherland, HP, IBM, Kubota,
Set Technologies, SGI, Stardent, SUN, Wavetracer
Availability: AVS4 available on all the above:
For all UNIX workstations.
Contact:
Advanced Visual Systems Inc.
300 Fifth Ave.
Waltham, MA 02154
(617)-890-4300 Telephone
(617)-890-8287 Fax
avs@avs.com Email
Advanced Visual Systems Inc. for: CRAY, HP, IBM, SGI, Stardent, SUN
CONVEX for CONVEX
Advanced Visual Systems Inc. or CRAY for CRAY
DEC for DEC
Evans & Sutherland for Evans & Sutherland
Advanced Visual Systems Inc. or IBM for IBM
Kubota Pacific Inc. for Kubota
Set Technologies for Set Technologies
Wavetracer for Wavetracer
FTP Site: for modules, data sets, other info:
avs.ncsc.org (128.109.178.23)
WIT
---
In a nutshell it's a package of the same genre as AVS,Explorer,etc.
It seems more a image processing system than a generic SciVi system (IMHO)
Major elements are:
- a visual programming language, which automatically exploits the inherent
parallelism
- a code generator which converts the graph to a standalone program
Iconified libraries present a rich set of point, filter, io, transform,
morphological, segmentation, and measurement operations.
A flow library allows graphs to employ broadcast, merge,
synchronization, conditional, and sequencing control strategies.
WIT delivers an object-oriented, distributed, visual programming
environment which allows users to rapidly design solutions to their
imaging problems. Users can consolidate both software and hardware
developments within a complete CAD-like workspace by adding their
own operators (C functions), objects (data structures), and servers
(specialized hardware). WIT runs on Sun, HP9000/7xx, SGI and supports
Datacube MV-20/200 hardware allowing you to run your graphs in real-time.
For a free WIT demo disk, call, FAX, or e-mail (poon@ee.ubc.ca)
us stating your complete name, address, voice, FAX, e-mail info.
and desired platform.
Pricing: WIT for Sparc, one yr. free upgrades, 30 days
technical support....................$5000 US
Academic institutions: discounts available
Contact:
Logical Vision Ltd.
Suite 108-3700 Gilmore Way
Burnaby, B.C., CANADA
V5G 4M1
Tel: 604-435-2587
Fax: 604-435-8840
Terry Arden <poon@ee.ubc.ca>
VIS-5D
------
A system for visually exploring the output of 5-D gridded data sets
such as those made by weather models. Platforms:
SGI IRIS with VGX, GTX, TG, or G graphics,
SGI Crimson or Indigo (R4000, Elan graphics suggested), IRIX 4.0.x
IBM RS/6000 with GL graphics, AIX version 3 or later;
Stardent GS-1000 and GS-2000 (with TrueColor display)
In any case, 32 (or more) MB of RAM are suggested.
You can get it freely (thanks to NASA support) via anonymous ftp:
ftp iris.ssec.wisc.edu (or ftp 144.92.108.63), then
ftp> cd pub/vis5d
ftp> ascii
ftp> get README
ftp> bye
NOTE: You can find the package also on wuarchive.wustl.edu in the
graphics/graphics/packages directory.
Read section 2 of the README file for full instructions
on how to get and install VIS-5D.
Contact:
Bill Hibbard (whibbard@vms.macc.wisc.edu)
Brian Paul (bpaul@vms.macc.wisc.edu)
DATAexplorer (IBM)
------------------
Platforms : IBM Risc System 6000, IBM POWER Visualization Server
(SIMD mesh 32 i860s, 40 MHz)
Working on (announced) : SGI, HP, Sun
Contact:
Your local IBM Rep. For a trial package ask your rep to contact :
David Kilgore
Data Explorer Product Marketing
YKTVMH(KILCORE), (708) 981-4510
Wavefront
---------
Data Visualizer, Personal Visualizer, Advanced Visualizer.
Platforms: SGI, SUN, IBM RS6000, HP, DEC
Availability:
Available on all the above platforms from Wavefront
Technologies. Educational programs and site licenses are
available.
Contacts:
Mike Wilson (mike@wti.com)
Wavefront Technologies, Inc.
530 East Montecito Street
Santa Barbara, CA 93103
805-962-8117
FAX: 805-963-0410
Wavefront Europe
Guldenspoorstraat 21-23
B-9000 Gent, Belgium
32-91-25-45-55
FAX: 32-91-23-44-56
Wavefront Technologies Japan
17F Shinjuku-sumitomo Bldg
2-6-1 Nishi-shinjuku, Shunjuku-Ku
Tokyo 168 Japan
81-3-3342-7330
FAX 81-3-3342-7353
PLOT3D and FAST from NASA Ames
------------------------------
These packages are distributed from COSMIC at least
(for FAST ask Pat Elson <pelson@nas.nasa.gov> for
distribution information). In general, these codes are for US
citizens only :-(
XGRAPH
------
On the contrib tape of X11R5. Its specialty is display of up
to 64 data sets (2D).
NCAR
----
National Center for Atmospheric Research. One of the original graphics
packages. Runs on Sun, RS6000, SGI, VAX, Cray Y-MP, DecStations, and more.
Contact:
Graphics Information
NCAR Scientific Computing Division
P.O. Box 3000
Boulder, CO 80307-3000
(303)-497-1201
scdinfo@ncar.ucar.edu
Cost:
.edu
$750 Unlimited users
.gov
$750 1 user
$1500 5 users
$3000 25 users
.com users multiply .gov * 2.0
IDL
---
An environment for scientific computing and visualization.
Based on an array oriented language, IDL includes 2D and 3D
graphics, matrix manupulation, signal and image processing,
basic statistics, gridding, mapping, and a widget based system
for building GUI for IDL applications (Open Look, Motif, or
MS-Windows).
Environments: DEC (VMS and Ultrix), HP, IBM RS6000, SGI, Sun,
Microsoft Windows. (Mac version in progress)
Cost: $1500 to $3750, Educational and quantity discounts
available.
See also: comp.lang.idl-pvwave (the IDL-PVWAVE bundle)
Contact: Research Systems Inc.
777 29th Street, Suite 302
Boulder, CO 80303
Phone: 303-786-9900
FAX: 303-786-9909
E-mail: info@rsinc.com
Demo available via FTP. Call or E-mail for details.
IDL/SIPS
--------
"A lot of people are using IDL with a package called SIPS. This was
developed at the University of Colorado (Boulder) by some people working
for Alex Goetz. You might try contacting them if you already have IDL
or would be willing to buy it. It's a few thousand dollars (American) I
expect for IDL and the other should be free. Those are the general
purpose packages I've heard of, besides what TerraMar has.
SIPS _was_ written for AVIRIS imagery. I'm not sure how general purpose
it is. You would have to contact Goetz or one of his people and ask. I
have another piece of software (PCW) that does PC and Walsh
transformations with pseudocoloring and clustering and limited image
modification (you can compute an image using selected components). I've
used it on 70 megabyte AVIRIS images without problems, but for the best
speed you need an external DSP card. It will work without it, but large
images take quite a while (50-70 times as long) to process. That's a
freebie if you want it"
"My favorite is IDL (Interactive Data Language) from Research Systems,
Inc. IDL is in my opinion, much better and infinitely easier. Its
programming language is very strong and easy -- very Pascal-like. It
handles the number-crunching very well, also. Personally, I like doing
the number-crunching with IDL on the VAX (or Mathematica, Igor, or even
Excel on the Mac if it's not too hairy), then bringing it over to NIH
Image for the imaging part. I have yet to encounter any situation which
that combination couldn't handle, and the speed and ease of use
(compared to IRAF) was incredible. By the way, it's mostly astronomical
image processing which I've been doing. This means image enhancement,
cleaning up bad lines/pixels, and some other traditional image
processing routines. Then, for example, taking a graph of intensity
versus position along a line I choose with the mouse, then doing a curve
fit to that line (which I might do like in KaleidaGraph.) "
[ For IDL call Research Systems , for PV-WAVE call Precision Visuals and
for SIPS call University of Colorado @ Boulder . From what I can
understand, you can get packaged programs from Research Systems, though
-- nfotis ]
Visual3
-------
contact Robert Haimes, MIT
FieldView
---------
An interactive program designed to assist an engineer in
investigating fluid dynamics data sets.
Platforms: SGI, IBM, HP, SUN, X-terminals
Availability: Currently available on all of the above
platforms. Educational programs and volume
discounts are available.
Contact:
Intelligent Light
P.O. Box 65
Fair Lawn, NJ 07410
(201)794-7550
Steve Kramer (kramer@ilight.com)
SciAn
------
SciAn is primarily intended to do 3-D visualizations of data in an
interactive environment with the ability to generate animations using
frame-accurate video recording devices. A user manual, on-line help, and
technical notes will help you use the program.
Cost : 0 (Free), source code provided via ftp.
Platforms : SGI 4D machines and IBM RS/6000 with the GL card + Z-buffer
Where to find it:
ftp.scri.fsu.edu [144.174.128.34] : /pub/SciAn
A mirror is monu1.cc.monash.edu.au [130.194.1.101] : /pub/SciAn
SCRY
----
[ From the README : ]
Scry is a distributed image handling system that pro-
vides image transport and compression on local and wide area
networks, image viewing on workstations, recording on video
equipment, and storage on disk. The system can be distri-
buted among workstations, between supercomputers and works-
tations, and between supercomputers, workstations and video
animation controllers. The system is most commonly used to
produce video based movie displays of images resulting from
visualization of time dependent data, complex 3D data sets,
and image processing operations. Both the clients and
servers run on a variety of systems that provide UNIX-like C
run-time environments, and 4BSD sockets.
The source is available for anonymous ftp:
csam.lbl.gov [128.3.254.6] : pub/scry.tar.Z
Contact:
Bill Johnston, (wejohnston@lbl.gov, ...ucbvax!csam.lbl.gov!johnston)
or
David Robertson (dwrobertson@lbl.gov, ...ucbvax!csam.lbl.gov!davidr)
Imaging Technologies Group
MS 50B/2239
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
1 Cyclotron Road
Berkeley, CA 94720
SVLIB / FVS
-----------
SVLIB is an X-Windows widget set based on the OSF (Open Software
Foundation) Motif widget set. SVLIB widgets are macro-widgets
comprising lower level Motif widgets such as buttons, scrollbars,
menus, and drawing areas. It is designed to address the reusability
of 2D visualization routines and each widget in the library is an
encapsulation of a specific visualization technique such as colormap
manipulation, image display, and contour plotting. It is targetted
to run on UNIX workstations supporting OSF/Motif. Currently, only
color monitors are supported. Since SVLIB is a collection of widgets
developed in the same spirit as the OSF/Motif user interface widget
set, it integrates seamlessly with the Motif widgets. Programmers
using SVLIB widgets see the same interface and design as other
Motif widgets.
FVS is a visualization software for Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
simulations. FVS is designed to accept data generated from these
simulations and apply various visualization techniques to present these
data graphically.
FVS accepts three-dimensional multi-block data recorded in NCSA HDF format.
iti.gov.sg [192.122.132.130] : /pub/svlib (Scientific Visualization)
/pu/fvs; These directories contain demo binaries for Sun4/SGI
Cost : US$200 for academic and US$300 for non-academic institutions.
(For each of the above items). You're getting the source for the licence.
Contact
-------
Miss Quek Lee Hian
Member of Technical Staff
Information Technology Institute
National Computer Board
NCB Building
71, Sicence Park Drive
Singapore 0511
Republic of Singapore
Tel : (65)7720435
Fax : (65)7795966
Email : leehian@iti.gov.sg
---------------------------------------------------------
GVLware Distribution:
Bob - An interactive volume renderer for the SGI
Raz - A disk based movie player for the SGI
Icol - Motif color editor
---------------------------------------------------------
The Army High Performance Computing Research Center (AHPCRC) has been
developing a set of tools to work with large time dependent 2D and 3D
data sets. In the Graphics and Visualization Lab (GVL) we are using
these tools along side standard packages, such as SGI Explorer and the
Utah Raster Toolkit, to render 3D volumes and create digital movies.
A couple of the more general purpose programs have been bundled into a
package called "GVLware".
GVLware, currently consisting of Bob, Raz and Icol, is now available
via ftp. The most interesting program is probably Bob, an interactive
volume renderer for the SGI. Raz streams raster images from disk to
an SGI screen, enabling movies larger than memory to be played. Icol
is a color map editor that works with Bob and Raz. Source and
pre-built binaries for IRIX 4.0.5 are included.
To acquire GVLware, anonymous ftp to:
machine - ftp.arc.umn.edu
file - /pub/gvl.tar.Z
To use GVLware:
mkdir gvl ; cd gvl
zcat gvl.tar.Z | tar xvf -
more README
Some Bob features:
Motif interface, SGI GL rendering
Renders 64 cubed data set in 0.1 to 1.0 seconds on a VGX
Alpha Compositing and Maximum Value rendering, in perspective
(only Maximum Value rendering on Personal Iris)
Data must be a "Brick of Bytes", on a regularly spaced grid
Animation, subvolumes, subsampling, stereo
Some Raz features:
Motif interface, SGI GL rendering
Loads files to a raw disk partition, then streams to screen
(requires an empty disk partition to be set aside)
Script interface available for movie sequences
Can stream from memory, like NCSA XImage
Some Icol features:
Motif interface
Easy to create interpolated color maps between key points
RGB, HSV and YUV color spaces, multiple file formats
Communicates changes automatically to Bob and Raz
Has been tested on SGI, Sun, DEC and Cray systems
BTW: Bob == Brick of Bytes
Icol == Interpolated Color
Raz == ? (just a name)
Please send any comments to
gvlware@ahpcrc.umn.edu
This software collection is supported by the Army Research Office
contract number DAALO3-89-C-0038 with the University of Minnesota Army
High Performance Computing Research Center.
IAP
---
Imaging Applications Platform is a commercial package for medical and
scientific visualization. It does volume rendering, binary surface
rendering, multiplanar reformating, image manipulation, cine sequencing,
intermixes geometry and text with images and provides measurement and
coordinate transform abilities.
It can provide hardcopy on most medical film printers, image database
functionality and interconnection to most medical (CT/MRI/etc) scanners.
It is client/server based and provides an object oriented interface. It
runs on most high performance workstations and takes full advantage of
parallelism where it is available. It is robust, efficient and
will be submitted for FDA approval for use in medical applications.
Cost: $20K for OEM developer, $10K for educational developer
and run times starting at $8900 and going down based on quantity.
The developer packages include two days training for two people in Toronto.
Available from:
ISG Technologies
6509 Airport Road
Mississauga, Ontario,
Canada, L4V-1S7
(416) 672-2100
e-mail: Rod Gilchrist <rod@isgtec.com>
========================================================================
18. Molecular visualization stuff
=================================
[ Based on a list from cristy@dupont.com < Cristy > , which asked for
systems for displaying Molecular Dynamics, MD for short ]
Flex
----
It is a public domain package written by Michael Pique, at The Scripps
Research Institute, La Jolla, CA. Flex is stored as a compressed,
tar'ed archive (about 3.4MB) at perutz.scripps.edu [137.131.152.27], in
pub/flex. It displays molecular models and MD trajectories.
MacMolecule
-----------
(for Macintosh). I searched with Archie, and the most
promising place is sumex-aim.stanford.edu (info-mac/app, and
info-mac/art/qt for a demo)
MD-DISPLAY
----------
Runs on SGI machines. Call Terry Lybrand (lybrand@milton.u.washington.edu).
XtalView
--------
It is a crystallography package that does visualize molecules and much more.
It uses the XView toolkit.
Call Duncan McRee <dem@scripps.edu>
landman@hal.physics.wayne.edu:
-----------------------------
I am writing my own visualization code right now. I look at MD output
(a specific format, easy to alter for the subroutine) on PC's. My
program has hooks into GKS. If your friend has access to Phigs for X
(PEX) and fortran bindings, I would be happy to share my evolving code
(free of charge). Right now it can display supercells of up to 65
atoms (easy to change), and up to 100 time steps, drawing nearest
neighbor bonds between 2 defining nn radii. It works acceptably fast
on a 10Mhz 286.
icsg0001@caesar.cs.montana.edu:
------------------------------
I did a project on Molecular Visualization for my Master's Thesis, using
UNIX/X11/Motif which generates a simple point and space-filling model.
KGNGRAF
-------
KGNGRAF is part of MOTECC-91. Look on malena.crs4.it (156.148.7.12),
in pub/motecc.
motecc.info.txt Information about MOTECC-91 in plain ascii format.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
motecc.info.troff Information about MOTECC-91 in troff format.
motecc.form.troff MOTECC-91 order form in troff format.
motecc.license.troff MOTECC-91 license agreement in troff format.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
motecc.info.ps Information about MOTECC-91 in PostScript format.
motecc.form.ps MOTECC-91 order form in PostScript format.
motecc.license.ps MOTECC-91 license agreement in PostScript format.
ditolla@itnsg1.cineca.it:
------------------------
I'm working on molecular dynamic too. A friend of mine and I have
developed a program to display an MD run dynamically on Silicon
Graphics. We are working to improve it, but it doesn't work under X,
we are using the graphi. lib. of the Silicon Gr. because they are much
faster then X. When we'll end it we'll post on the news info about
where to get it with ftp. (Will be free software).
XBall V2.0
----------
Written by David Nedde. Call daven@maxine.wpi.edu.
XMol
----
An X Window System program that uses OSF/Motif for the
display and analysis of molecular model data. Data from several
common file formats can be read and written; current formats include:
Alchemy, CHEMLAB-II, Gaussian, MOLSIM, MOPAC, PDB, and MSCI's XYZ
format (which has been designed for simplicity in translating to
and from other formats). XMol also allows for conversion between
several of these formats.
Xmol is available at ftp.msc.edu. Read pub/xmol/README for
further details.
INSIGHT II
----------
from BIOSYM Technologies Inc.
SCARECROW
---------
The program has been published in J. Molecular Graphics 10
(1992) 33. The program can analyze and display CHARMM, DISCOVER, YASP
and MUMOD trajectories. The program package contains also software for
the generation of probe surfaces, proton affinity
surfaces and molecular orbitals from an extended Huckel program.
It works on Silicon Graphics machines.
Contact Leif Laaksonen <Leif.Laaksonen@csc.fi or laaksone@csc.fi>
MULTI
-----
ns.niehs.nih.gov [157.98.8.8] : /pub - MULTI 3.0 (Multi-Process
Molecular Modeling Suite)
MindTool
--------
It runs under SunView, and requires a fortran compiler and Sun's CGI
libraries. MindTool is a tool provided for the interactive graphic
manipulation of molecules and atoms. Currently, up to 10,000
atoms may be input.
Available via anonymous FTP, at rani.chem.yale.edu, directory
/pub/MindTool ( Check with Archie for other sites if that's too far )
[ I would also suggest looking at least in SGI's Applications Directory.
It contains many more packages - nfotis ]
===========================================================================
19. GIS (Geographical Information Systems software)
===================================================
GRASS
-----
(Geographic Resource Analysis Support System) of the US Army
Construction Engineering Research Lab (CERL). It is a popular geographic and
remote sensing image processing package. Many may think of GRASS as a
Geographic Information System rather than an Image Processing package,
although it is reported to have significant image processing
capabilities.
Feature Descriptions
I use GRASS because it's public domain and can be obtained through the
internet for free. GRASS runs in Unix and is written in C. The source
code can be obtained through an anonymous ftp from the Office of Grass
Integration. You then compile the source code for your machine, using
scripts provided with GRASS. I would recommend GRASS for someone who
already has a workstation and is on a limited budget. GRASS is not very
user-friendly, compared to Macintosh software." A first review of
overview documentation indicates that it looks useful and has some pixel
resampling functions not in other packages plus good general purpose
image enhancement routines (fft). Kelly Maurice at Vexcel Corp. in
Boulder, CO is a primary user of GRASS . This gentleman has used the
GRASS software and developed multi-spectral (238 bands ??) volumetric
rendering, full color, on Suns and Stardents. It was a really effective
interface. Vexcel Corp. currently has a contract to map part of Venus
and convert the Magellan radar data into contour maps. You can call them
at (303) 444-0094 or email care of greg@vexcel.com 192.92.90.68
Host Configuration Requirements
If you are willing to run A/UX you could install GRASS on a Macintosh
which has significant image analysis and import capabilities for
satellite data. GRASS is public-domain, and can run on a high-end PC
under UNIX. It is raster-based, has some image-processing capability,
and can display vector data (but analysis must be done in the raster
environment). I have used GRASS V.3 on a SUN workstation and found it
easy to use. It is best, of course, for data that are well represented
in raster (grid-cell) form.
Availability
CERL's Office of Grass Integration (OGI) maintains an ftp server:
moon.cecer.army.mil (129.229.20.254).
Mail regarding this site should be addressed to
grass-ftp-admin@moon.cecer.army.mil.
This location will be the new "canonical" source for GRASS software, as
well as bug fixes, contributed sources, documentation, and other files.
This FTP server also supports dynamic compression and uncompression and
"tar" archiving of files. A feature attraction of the server is John
Parks' GRASS tutorial. Because the manual is still in beta-test stage,
John requests that people only acquire it if they are willing to review
it and mail him comments/corrections. The OGI is not currently
maintaining this document, so all correspondence about it should be
directed to grassx@tang.uark.edu
Support
Listserv mailing lists:
grassu-list@amber.cecer.army.mil (for GRASS users; application-level
questions, support concerns, miscellaneous questions, etc) Send
subscribe commands to grassu-request@amber.cecer.army.mil.
grassp-list@amber.cecer.army.mil (for GRASS programmers; system-level
questions and tips, tricks, and techniques of design and implementation
of GRASS applications) Send subscribe commands to
grassp-request@amber.cecer.army.mil.
Both lists are maintained by the Office of Grass Integration (subset of
the Army Corps of Engineers Construction Engineering Research Lab in
Champaign, IL). The OGI is providing the lists as a service to the
community; while OGI and CERL employees will participate in the lists,
we can make no claim as to content or veracity of messages that pass
through the list. If you have questions, problems, or comments, send
E-mail to lists-owner@amber.cecer.army.mil and a human will respond.
Microstation Imager
-------------------
Intergraph (based in Huntsville Alabama) sells a wide range of GIS
software/hardware. Microstation is a base graphics package that Imager
sits on top of. Imager is basically an image processing package with a
heavy GIS/remote sensing flavor.
Feature Description
Basic geometry manipulations: flip, mirror, rotate, generalized affine.
Rectification: Affine, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th order models as well as a
projective model (warp an image to a vector map or to another image).
RGB to IHS and IHS to RGB conversion. Principal component analysis.
Classification: K-means and isodata. Fourier Xforms: Forward, filtering
and reverse. Filters: High pass, low pass, edge enhancing, median,
generic. Complex Histogram/Contrast control. Layer Controller: manages
up to 64 images at a time -- user can extract single bands from a 3 band
image or create color images by combining various individual bands, etc.
The package is designed for a remote sensing application (it can handle
VERY LARGE images) and there is all kinds of other software available
for GIS applications.
Host Configuration Requirements
It runs on Intergraph Workstations (a Unix machine similar to a Sun)
though there were rumors (there are always rumors) that the software
would be ported to PC and possibly a Sun environment.
PCI
---
A company called PCI, Inc., out of Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada, makes
an array of software utilities for processing, manipulation, and use of
remote sensing data in eight or ten different "industry standard"
formats: LGSOWG, BSQ, LANDSAT, and a couple of others whose titles I
forget. The software is available in versions for MS-DOS, Unix
workstations (among them HP, Sun, and IBM), and VMS, and quite possibly
other platforms by now. I use the VMS version.
The "PCI software" consists of several classes/groups/packages of
utilities, grouped by function but all operating on a common "PCI
database" disk file. The "Tape I/O" package is a set of utility
programs which read from the various remote-sensing industry tape
formats INTO, or write those formats out FROM, the "PCI database" file;
this is the only package I use or know much about. Other packages can
display data from the PCI database to one or another of several
PCI-supported third-party color displays, output numeric or bitmap
representation of image data to an attached printer, e.g. an Epson-type
dot-matrix graphics printer. You might be more spe- cifically
interested in the mathematical operations package: histo- gram and
Fourier analysis, equalization, user-specified operations (e.g.
"multiply channel 1 by 3, add channel 2, and store as channel 5"), and
God only knows what all else -- there's a LOT. I don't have and don't
use these, so can't say much about them; you only buy the packages your
particular application/interest calls for.
Each utility is controlled by from one to eight "parameters," read from
a common "parameter file" which must be (in VMS anyway) in your "default
directory." Some utilities will share parameters and use the same
parameter for a different purpose, so it can get a bit confusing setting
up a series of operations. The standard PCI environment contains a
scripting language very similar to IBM-PC BASIC, but which allows you to
automate the process of setting up parameters for a common, complicated,
lengthy or difficult series of utility executions. (In VMS I can also
invoke utilities independently from a DCL command procedure.) There's
also an optional programming library which allows you to write compiled
language programs which can interface with (read from/write to) the PCI
data structures (database file, parameter file).
The PCI software is designed specifically for remote-sensing images, but
requires such a level of operator expertise that, once you reach the
level where you can handle r-s images, you can figure out ways to handle
a few other things as well. For instance, the Tape I/O package offers a
utility for reading headerless multi-band (what Adobe PhotoShop on the
Macintosh calls "raw") data from tape, in a number of different
"interleave" orders. This turns out to be ideal for manipulating the
graphic-arts industry's "CT2T" format, would probably (I haven't tried)
handle Targa, and so on. Above all, however, you HAVE TO KNOW WHAT
YOU'RE DOING or you can screw up to the Nth degree and have to start
over. It's worth noting that the PCI "database" file is designed to
contain not only "raster" (image) data, but vectors (for overlaying map
information entered via digitizing table), land-use, and all manner of
other information (I observe that a remote-sensing image tape often
contains all manner of information about the spectral bands, latitude,
longitude, time, date, etc. of the original satellite pass; all of this
can go into the PCI "database").
I _believe_ that on workstations the built-in display is used. On VAX
systems OTHER than workstations PCI supports only a couple of specific
third-party display systems (the name Gould/Deanza seems to come to
mind). One of MY personal workarounds was a display program which would
display directly from a PCI "database" file to a Peritek VCT-Q (Q-bus
24-bit DirectColor) display subsystem. PCI software COULD be "overkill"
in your case; it seems designed for the very "high end"
applications/users, i.e. those for whom a Mac/PC largely doesn't suffice
(although as you know the gap is getting smaller all the time). It's
probably no coincidence that PCI is located in Canada, a country which
does a LOT of its land/resource management via remote sensing; I believe
the Canadian government uses PCI software for some of its work in these
areas.
SPAM (Spectral Analysis Manager)
--------------------------------
Back in 1985 JPL developed something called SPAM (Spectral Analysis
Manager) which got a fair amount of use at the time. That was designed
for Airborne Imaging Spectrometer imagery (byte data, <= 256 pixels
across by <= 512 lines by <= 256 bands); a modified version has since
been developed for AVIRIS (Airborne VIsual and InfraRed Imaging
Spectrometer) which uses much larger images.
Spam does none of these things (rectification, classification, PC and
IHS transformations, filtering, contrast enhancement, overlays).
Actually, it does limited filtering and contrast enhancement
(stretching). Spam is aimed at spectral identification and clustering.
The original Spam uses X or SunView to display. The AVIRIS version may
require VICAR, an executive based on TAE, and may also require a frame
buffer. I can refer you to people if you're interested. PCW requires X
for display.
MAP II
------
Among the Mac GIS systems, MAP II is distributed by John Wiley.
CLRview
-------
CLRview is a 3-dimensional visualization program designed to exploit
the real-time capabilities of Silicon Graphics IRIS computers.
This program is designed to provide a core set of tools to aid in the
visualization of information from CAD and GIS sources. It supports
the integration of many common but disperate data sources such as DXF,
TIN, DEM, Lattices, and Arc/Info Coverages among others.
CLRview can be obtained from explorer.dgp.utoronto.ca (128.100.1.129)
in the directory pub/sgi/clrview.
Contact:
Rodney Hoinkes
Head of Design Applications
Centre for Landscape Research
University of Toronto
Tel: (416) 978-7197
Email: rodney@dgp.utoronto.ca
==========================================================================
End of Resource Listing | 2 |
7,148 | Which would YOU choose, and why?
Like lots of people, I'd really like to increase my data transfer rate from
the hard drive. Right now I have a 15ms 210Mb IDE drive (Seagate 1239A), and
a standard IDE controller card on my ISA 486-50.
I'm currently thinking about adding another HD, in the 300Mb to 500Mb range.
And I'm thinking hard about buying a SCSI drive (SCSI for the future benefit).
I believe I'm getting something like 890Kb/sec transfer right now (according
to NU).
How would this number compare if I bought the state-of-the-art SCSI card for
my ISA PC, and the state-of-the-art SCSI hard drive (the best system I could
hope for)?
Obviously money factors into this choice as well as any other, but what would
YOU want to use on your ISA system? And how much would it cost?
Along those lines, what kind of transfer rate could I see with my IDE HD's if I
were to buy the top-of-the-line IDE caching controller for my 200Mb, 15ms HD?
And how much would it cost?
Thanks for any comments. | 2 |
6,238 | $Id: open-look-programs.faq,v 1.17 93/03/21 17:17:55 lee Exp Locker: lee $
Contents:
Subject: Applications: Application Builders
Subject: Applications: Graphing Tools
Subject: Applications: Utilities
Subject: Applications: Other
Subject: Tools: Terminal Emulators
Subject: Other Commercial Applications
Subject: Applications: toolkit Extensions
Subject: OpenWindows 3 Ports
Subject: XView 3 Ports
Subject: XView 2 Ports
Subject: Games (free and commercial)
Subject: Applications: Application Builders
Commercial: DevGuide 3.0
Contact: SunPICS
lets you use Drag and Drop to create an OPEN LOOK application with
XView, OLIT, UIT or TNT. Very easy to use.
Free: dirt
there _might_ be an OLIT port of this UI builder.
Commercial: ExoCode
Contact: Expert Object
one of the first third-party GUI builders to support OPEN LOOK,
using the XView toolkit. It was reviewed in SunExpert magazine
in 1990.
Commercial: ObjectBuilder
Contact: ParcPlace, Debra Frances debra@ParcPlace.COM, +1 303 440 9991
uib is a user interface builder which supports building applications
that support both OPEN LOOK and Motif. It generates code for
ParcPlace's OI C++ toolkit and can make use of user created
subclasses. Note: `OI' can also display an OSF/Motif GUI at runtime.
Free: wcl
Uses X resources to specify an Xt widget hierarchy and actions to
user-defined callbacks. uses OLIT, Xt or Motif.
Commercial: XVT
Contact: XVT Systems (+1 303-443-4223)
Lets you write code to a common subset of OPEN LOOK, Motif, Microsoft
Windows, the Macintosh GUI, and even terminals (using curses). You buy
an XVT toolkit for each environment.
Subject: Applications: Graphing Tools
Free: dstool
XView-based program that plots Lorenz Attractors and other chaotic things
in real time. Also includes a mathematical expression interpreter.
ftp: macomb.tn.cornell.edu
Free: ACE/gr -- graph and analysis program, xvgr
Ftp: ftp.ccalmr.ogi.edu [129.95.72.34]; xvgr-2.09.tar.Z in /CCALMR/pub/acegr
Handles x-y scatterplots, lineplots, bargraphs, FFT analysis, running
averages, polynomial fits, etc.
Free: robot - a scientific graph plotting and data analysis tool
Contact: Robin Corbet <corbet@astro.psu.edu>
Description:
Graph plotting in various styles & axes; Data manipulation - arithmetic,
functions, smoothing, folding, sorting; Fitting to data using Gaussians,
polynomials, Lorentzians, and/or user defined functions; Annotation of
graphs; log files; Commands with loops etc.; Colour; PostScript output.
Ftp: astrod.astro.psu.edu (128.118.147.28) in pub/astrod
Ftp: files: robotx0.35.tar.Z - everything
Ftp: files: RobotManual.ps.Z - just the documentation.
Ftp: files: robot.sun4.Z - binary built on a SPARCstation.
Requirements:
Robot is XView based. User interface portions of code are written in
'C'. Data manipulation code is written in FORTRAN. Hence a FORTRAN
compiler is also required or the public domain f2c package.
Alternatively, a SPARC binary is available by anonymous ftp.
Subject: Applications: Utilities
Free: boss
Description:
An OPEN LOOK UI to the Casio BOSS scheduler
Free: props
Ftp: export.lcs.mit.edu /pub/R5untarred/contrib/lib/xview3/clients/props/*
Description:
This is the OpenWindows properties editor, that appears when you choose
the Properties... item from the WorkSpace menu.
Free: contool
Ftp: from export.lcs.mit.edu
Description:
a special-purpose console-window that can filter out or take special
action on specified console messages; written by Chuck Musciano.
Requirements: XView
Free: faces
Description:
displays pictures of people who have sent you electronic mail.
Violates the Data Protection Act in the U.K.
Subject: Applications: Other
Commercial: Bimail 400
Contact: BIM (+32-2-759.59.25) pge@sunbim.be
X.400-address: C=be;A=RTT;P=BIM;O=Horizon;S=Geurts;G=Patrick
Notes:
Bimail is a complete X.400 electronic mail system. It consists
in a user interface which gives access to all X.400 services
with a consistent look and feel, a message transfer agent (MTA) system
which can transfer messages over X.25, TP.4 and TCP/IP (using RFC 1006).
A gateway to SMTP mail is also available.
Free: calentool
Description:
a day/week/month/year at-a-glance calendar and almanac.
Ftp: export.lcs.mit.edu:/contrib/calentool2.2Xp1.tar.Z
Contact: Bill Randle, Tektronix, Inc. <billr@saab.CNA.TEK.COM>
Free: emacstool
Description:
a SunView program that was converted to XView, and is included with the
GNU emacs distribution.
Free: Genix
Contact: Ian Darwin <ian@sq.com>
A genealogy program, written in C using Guide.
Incomplete as of Jan '93; inquire for details.
Free: WorkMan - Audio CD player for X11 (Sun, Ultrix)
Requirements: XView libraries
Ftp: Ultrix binary: ftp.hyperion.com in /WorkMan
Ftp: ftp.ucsc.edu in "incoming" - database of over 750 CDs
Contact: koreth@hyperion.com (Steven Grimm)
Free: pan - Postit notes
Free: WAIS
Ftp: sunsite.unc.edu
Description:
Networked, distributed text-retrieval system. OLIT-based front end.
Notes:
You might to need to add -lce to the Makefile.
Free: xrolo - Rolodex card index/address book
Free: xv_display
Description:
An XView program for showing a text file, like more(1).
Commercial: SearchIt 1.0
Contact: SunSoft or SunExpress
US: 1-800-873-7869; UK: 0800 89 88 88
Germany: 01 30 81 61 91; France: 05 90 61 57
Platforms: SPARC, Solaris 1.x
Price: $249
Notes:
SearchIt is a full text search and retrieval application designed to
improve individual and group productivity. It makes an index to files
and can later retrieve documents by words or phrases, ranking the results
in relevance order.
Commercial: ShowMe
Contact: SunSoft
Notes:
Conferencing software that lets multiple connected users share the same
drawing screen, with bitmap capture and moveable pointer.
Requirements:
You can only run one ShowMe per computer, so you have to have a CPU per
conference member.
Free: xvman - Man Pages viewer
Free: xvtdl - ToDo List manager
Ftp: export.lcs.mit.edu /contrib/xvtdl-4.0.tar.Z, /contrib/xvtdl-4.0-README
Requirements: XView libraries
Contact: Mike Jipping jipping@cs.hope.edu (BITNET: JIPPING@HOPE)
Organisation: Hope College Department of Computer Science
Free: name_finder
Contact: richard.elling@eng.auburn.edu +1 (205) 844-2280
Ftp: ftp.eng.auburn.edu [131.204.10.91] pub/name_finder1.2.tar.Z.
Patches: pub/name_finder1.2.compile.patch1.
Requirements: OpenWindows 3.0, C++ 2.1 or greater to recompile
Description:
name_finder was orginally designed as a replacement for the name finder
missing from the OpenWindows Version 3.0 mailtool. It has since grown
into a tool for several electronic mail related activities including:
interaction with local ListServ robots for handling mail lists,
requesting Full.Name style mail aliases from your local PostMaster, and
providing mailbox status information ala finger(1).
name_finder is written in C++ (cfront 2.1) using gxv++ version 1.1.
If you don't have access to a C++ compiler, a precompiled sparc
executable is included in the distribution.
Free: bibcard interface for BiBTeX databases
Requirements: XView
Ftp: iamsun.unibe.ch [130.92.64.10] in /X11/Bibcard-1.11.tar.Z
Ftp: includes source and SPARC binary for SunOS 4.1.1.
Version: 1.11
Description:
GUI for mantaining bibliography databases which can be used with
LaTeX, TeX and FrameMaker
Free: moxftp -- interface to ftp.
Ftp: ftp.chpc.utexas.edu as file /packages/X/xftp.1.1.tar.Z.
Contact: Bill Jones jones@chpc.utexas.edu
Requirements: X11, OLIT or Motif or Athena widgets
Notes:
formerly called xftp.
compiles under (at least) Ultrix, AIX 3.1.5, AIX 3.2, Convex OS, SunOS,
Unicos 6.1.4, and IRIX. Uses OLIT.
BUG: can also use OSF/Motif and Athena widgets.
Free: olvwm -- OPEN LOOK Virtual Window Manager
contact: Scott Oaks
Ftp: export.lcs.mit.edu in the contrib directory
Patches: there are two patches
Requirements: XView 3
Description:
Olvwm is a version of olwm that manages a `virtual desktop' (hence the
`v' in its name). It shows a little map on the screen, with the
currently displayed area represented by a little rectangle. You can
move around by dragging the rectangle or with the arrow keys. This
lets you run several clients (applications) and move the display around
from one to the other. Olvwm was derived from the OpenWindows 3.0 olwm.
Free: ftptool -- OPEN LOOK front-end to ftp
Requirements: XView
Ftp: export.lcs.mit.edu in /contrib
Free: Hyperlook
Contact: The Turing Institute
Requirements: OpenWindows 3 (running the xnews server, not X11)
Hypertext package written entirely in NeWS. Runtime from turing.com
in /pub or ftp.uu.net (graphics/NeWS/HyperLook1.5-runtime.tar.Z)
Maestro (ftp from sioux.stanford.edu)
Multimedia authoring tools, including support for sound, text & video.
xvnews (ftp from export.lcs.mit.edu)
An xview-based newsreader for netnews.
Free: xvttool
Ftp: cs.dal.ca:/pub/comp.archives
Ftp: nuri.inria.fr:/X/contrib/clients
Ftp: lth.se:/pub/netnews/alt.sources/volume92/dec/xvttool*.Z
Ftp: src.doc.ic.ac.uk:/usenet/comp.archives/x11/terminal/xvttool
Description:
A vt100/102 emulator, in both XView and SunView versions. Includes
buttons for the PF keys, etc.
Subject: PostScript and Graphics Viewers
Commercial: pageview - PostScript previewer
Contact: Included in OpenWindows as part of DeskSet.
Notes:
Type 1 support only in OpenWindows 3.0.1 under Solaris 2.1.
Antialiasing support - with colour OpenWindows 3 try pageview -aa -dpi 150
Note that pageview uses the X11/NeWS server to interpret the PostScript,
and thus won't run on an X terminal or other non-OpenWindows server.
It's *not* enough to be runing an OPEN LOOK UI [tm] window manager such
as olwm.
Commercial: xps - PostScript program editor and previewer
Contact: included with OpenWindows 2.0 under demo and share/src
Notes:
Only runs under OpenWindows 2.
Commercial: psh
Contact: included with OpenWindows
simple interface to NeWS and the OpenWindows server
Free: ralpage
Ftp: export.lcs.mit.edu in contrib/clients
Notes:
Crispin Goswell's PostScript interpreter, much hacked.
Not OPEN LOOK compliant. No Type 1 font support.
There are other versions of this called `xps', `postscript', etc.;
don't confuse this `xps' with the one mentioned above.
Free: ghostscript
(from the Free Software Foundation)
Supports Type 1 fonts. Not OPEN LOOK based.
Subject: Tools: Terminal Emulators
Free: cmdtool, shelltool
Requirements: XView 3 toolkit
Notes:
These are included in the XView source distribution from
export.lcs.mit.edu in /contrib; they're also included with Sun's
OpenWindows.
Commercial: SwitchTerm
Contact: Micro Resources Inc., Columnbus, Ohio, USA, +1 614 766-2335
Notes:
A version of Xterm with an OPEN LOOK UI, print interface,
ANSI X3.64 colour escape sequences, etc.
Commercial: IsoTerm
Contact: The Bristol Group Ltd., +1 415 925-9250 and (49) 6105-2945 (Germany)
Requirements: OpenWindows 3 (??)
Other Products: IsoTeX, IsoFax, Power Base
Notes:
An OLIT-based terminal emulator. I couldn't get the demo version to
give me a shell prompt, although it did look like it was a pretty fll
vt340 emulation, with double-height characters, colour, fonts, grahics
and so forth.
With the Union Flag (the British flag) as their logo I somehow expected
an English address, perhaps in Bristol...
Subject: Other Commercial Applications
Contact SunSoft (or Sun) and ask for the Catalyst OPEN LOOK guide,
which lists over 200 pages of applications.
You can also get the free CDWare CD/ROM, which contains demo versions
of several popular OPEN LOOK UI applications. Once you've done this,
you can often simply contact the vendor concerned to have the license
upgraded from demo, and receive the full product documentation.
Product Name: Author/Editor - SGML-based text editor/word processor
Company Name: SoftQuad Inc., +1 416 239 4801, mail@sq.com
Description:
Word processor or text editor that manipulates ISO 8879 SGML documents.
Interfaces: OPEN LOOK UI (XView), OSF/Motif, Mac, MS/Windows
Subject: Applications: toolkit Extensions
Product Name: Xtra XWidgets
Company Name: Graphical Software Technology
E-Mail: info@gst.com
Phone: 310-328-9338; Fax: 310-376-6224
Keywords: graphics, library, widgets, spreadsheet, help
Interfaces: OPEN LOOK, Motif
Platforms: SPARC, HP9000s300/400/700, IBM RS6000, Interactive 386
Requirements: X11, Xt, Xol (or Xm) libraries and headers; X11
Price: $795/single user, $3000/network, $5000/source
Support-Price: $400/30 calls
Source-Available: yes
Description:
The Xtra XWidget library contains a set of widgets that are subclassed
from and compatible with either OLIT or Motif widgets. The library
includes widgets that implement the following: Spreadsheet, Bar Graph,
Stacked Bar Graph, Line Graph, Pie Chart, XY Plot, Hypertext, Hypertext
based Help System, and Data Entry Form. Widgets have been successfully
integrated with both TeleUSE from Telesoft and Builder Xcessory from
ICS. A free demo is available for any of the supported platforms.
Product Name: XRT/Graph
Company Name: KL Group
E-mail: sun.com!suncan!klg!info, info@klg.com
Phone: +1 416 594-1026
Description:
XRT/graph is a graph object that extends the XView toolkit; There are
also Xt versions for OLIT and Motif. XRT/graph supports line plots,
scatter-plots, strip-charts, bar charts, stacking bar charts, pie charts
and filled-area charts, singly and in combination. It supports real-time
updates, true Postscript output, and intelligent user feedback. It comes
with Builder, a graph prototyping tool, which supports code & resource
file generation. A free demo (vmgraph) is available.
There are free integration kits for UIM/X, TeleUSE, and Builder Xcessory
(others in progress).
Availability:
XRT/graph for XView and OLIT are only available on SPARC.
XRT/graph for Motif is available on a dozen or so platforms.
Free: Slingshot XView extension
Slingshot provides rectangles (like the Xt Intrinsics' RectObj gadget),
drag-and-drop support, images, icons and text, trees, lines, arrows...
Get it by ftp from export.lcs.mit.edu, in /contrib/SlingShot2.0.tar.Z
(remember to use binary mode in ftp!).
You can also get it by sending mail to archive-server@gazooch.eng.sun.com
with the body of each message containing a line like
send sspkg2.0 Part01 Part02
going up to
send sspkg2.0 Part17 Part18
send sspkg2.0 DocPart01 DocPart02 DocPart03
send sspkg2.0 DocPart04 DocPart05 DocPart06
You can ask for one file at a time to reduce the impact on intermediate
mail sites. Ask the mail server for help with the Subject line: "help".
A human can be reached at archive-manager@gazooch.eng.sun.com.
Add a line in the message
path <your-mail-address>
if you think the normal automatic reply address might not work.
Ada bindings for XView
Sun Ada 1.1 includes among other things an Ada Source Code Generator
for Devguide. It uses the Verdix XView Ada bindings.
It does not yet [July 1992] support gfm (the guide file manager).
C++ Bindings for XView
Qualix's XV++.
UIT
Subject: OpenWindows 3 Ports
Sun: SPARC, SunOS 4.1
Sun: SPARC, Solaris 2 (actually 3.0.1?)
others: none so far...
There are said (by Sun) to be two or three ports of OpenWindows either
available now or in progress. Contact Anthony Flynn at Open Vistas
International (anthony@ovi.com) for more information. (originally they
said 35, but perhaps they meant 3.5)
OpenWindows source is available - commercially, it costs about $5,000 for
the server, including TypeScaler and the toolkits; deskset (filemgr etc) is
another $25,000; ToolTalk is $40,000 or so.
Subject: XView 3 Ports
What: XView 3
System: Apple A/UX
Porter: lmj@uncompaghre.jax.org (Lou Jones)
Ftp: encyclo.jax.org
Notes:
The libraries and utilities (olwm, cmdtool, etc) are available for
anonymous ftp from encyclo.jax.org. I used gcc 2.1 to compile the
sources. If there is enough interest, I can make the diffs
available.
System: Concurrent 7000 (68040 based)
Porter: sinan@Mtesol.boeing.com (Sinan Karasu)
System: DECStation/Ultrix
Porter: dscott@ittc.wec.com (Dave Scott)
Ftp: media-lab.media.mit.edu:~ftp/xview3-ultrix.4.2-mips.tar.Z
Notes:
Let me stress that this is *not* fully tested, but seems to work
pretty well. Please let me know about any problems you find.
Problems I already know about:
Large buttons under *any* non-Sun X server (non-xnews; i.e. any
standard MIT X11R[45] server) have the bottom of the button
chopped off. We're working on this one. :-)
XView 3 is also available on the DEC Freeware CD, from DECUS.
[actually this seems *not* to be Dave Scott's port; please accept my apologies
for listing this incorrectly. A correct entry will appear as soon as I get
the necessary information. -- Lee]
System: HP 720
Porter: (?)
Ftp: tesla.ucd.ie [137.43.24.44], /pub
Notes:
Includes HP 720 build, HP XView patch file, Xvgr.
System: HP9000/300 series
Porter: tjc@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Tim Chown)
System: HP9000/7XX series
Ftp: ftp.csc.liv.ac.uk (138.253.42.172) hpux/X11/xview-3.part[123].tar.Z
System: Intel (SysVR4/i386)
Porter: dawes@physics.su.OZ.AU (David Dawes)
Ftp: ftp.physics.su.oz.au, suphys.physics.su.oz.au /Esix_4/x11r5 hierarchy
Notes:
His patches were for Esix 4.0.3 but should work on DELL, ISC and Intel
SVR4 with no worries. The files are README.xview3 and xview3.diff.Z.
See Also: linux
System: IBM RS/6000
Porter: tmcconne@sedona.intel.com (Tom McConnell)
Compiler: bsdcc
Ftp: export.lcs.mit.edu:contrib/xview3/Fixes/xview3_rs6k_unofficial.patch.Z
Notes:
There is still a problem with tty support for the RS/6000. For
instance, the cmdtool will not work. Still, most everything else works.
For those of you who have already installed my previous patch, I have
put a separate patch for just the shared library problem. This file is
contrib/xview3/Fixes/xview3_rs6k_XView_lib.patch.Z.
System: linux
Porter: Kenneth Osterberg <lmfken@lmf.ericsson.se>
ICompiler: gcc 2.3.3, libc4.2
Ftp: tsx-11.mit.edu /pub/linux/binaries/usr.bin.X11/xview3L2
Ftp: sunsite.unc.edu
Notes:
Inlcudes olvwm, UIT
System: SGI
Porter: Rainer Sinkwitz <sinkwitz@ifi.unizh.ch>
Ftp: export.lcs.mit.edu:/contrib/xview3/Fixes/xview3_sgi_unofficial.patch.tar.Z
Notes:
System: Solbourne Series 5
Porter: tmcconne@sedona.intel.com (Tom McConnell)
Subject: XView 2 Ports
In general, there is no point in using XView 2 if you have XView 3 available;
it's a good idea to look for an XView 3 port first. Moving from XView 2 to
XView 3 is usually simply a matter of recompiling, unless you've done
"dirty tricks" or used undocumented calls.
System: Stellar GS100 (Stardent 1000) and Stardent 1500 & 3000
Porter: arvai@scripps.edu (Andy Arvai)
Ftp: perutz.scripps.edu (137.131.152.27) in the pub/xview directory
Notes:
Stardent is now Kubota Pacific (KPC)
System: Harris Nighthawk 4000 system (CX/UX Unix)
Porter: andy@harris.nl (Andy Warner)
Status: Commercial
System: SGI/Iris
Porter: (?)
Ftp: wuarchive.wustl.edu:graphics/graphics/sgi-stuff/XView/xview2
System: VAX/VMS
Porter: TGV Inc (?)
Notes:
A company called TGV makes a product called "XView for VMS".
They made XView 2.0 libraries. I haven't seen them advertising
XView 3.0 libraries yet.
Subject: Games (free and commercial)
Commercial: Aviator - flight simulator for GX-equipped SPARCStations
Contact: Artificial Horizons Inc, aviator-interest@ahi.com; +1 415 367 5029
Requirements: OpenWindows (2 or 3), SunOS 4.1 or later, SPARC GX or GXplus
Free: hexsweeper - minesweeper game based on hexagons
Contact: lee@sq.com, include HexSweeper in Subject
Requirements: OpenWindows 3.0 or later
Toolkit: TNT 3
Free:
Free: sidtool - PacMan game
Ftp: ftp.uu.net /usenet/comp.sources.games/volume1/sidtool/*
an OPEN LOOK PacMan(tm) surrogate that
appears as a debugger - the bad guys are code bugs that
move around your screen; you (the good guy) chase them
with a 19" monitor that eats bugs.
Commercial: SimCity
Contact: Dux Software, Los Altos, CA
Price: US$89
Requirements: OpenWindows 3 (uses NeWS). Doesn't run on a 4/110 with cg4 :-(
Free: Spider (Included in OpenWindows under `demo' and `share/src')
A patience-style card game with two packs of cards and
excellent bitmap cards.
I suggest recompiling to allow the cards to have rounded edges.
Free: Xblackjack (ftp from export.lcs.mi.edu as contrib/xblackjack-2.1.tar.Z)
A MOTIF/OLIT based tool constructed to get you ready for the casino.
| 2 |
7,011 | Looking for a TIFF/EPS of a DNA Helix. E-mail any auggestions, please.
| 2 |
4,576 | zyda@cs.nps.navy.mil (Michael Zyda) notes:
I had the same problem and called the people who handle the box; the
problem happened some time ago and was caught almost instantly. All
registrations going to that address are now fixed. See what trouble
you get into when you don't procrastinate, Mike?
And no, SIGGRAPH 93 has not skipped town -- we're preparing the best
SIGGRAPH conference yet! | 2 |
4,002 | The subject line says it all really, I'm looking for a PD application
which will just handle the displaying of 3D data sets (images) in
cross section, or any pointers to code which will aid in the development
of such a system.
Thanks in advance
Keith Marlow
| 2 |
7,488 |
amen.. I too have learned by example, specifically yours. :)
.. but dorsai leads the way.. Unlike other services that are commercial
in nature, dorsai is a community based service. While others charge
monthly fees for access, dorsai accepts donations from those who can
afford to contribute.
While other systems don't respond to user input, dorsai thrives on it.
Other systems sell hardware for a profit, dorsai donates hardware to
community service groups, and to individuals who couldn't afford to
normally.
Dorsai lives due to the "hacker" ethic of Charles, Jack, Skip, Cara,
Ira, Mark, David etc etc etc.. sleepless nights and days working on
equipment thats been assembled at the embassy, ( and modifying what
ever else available to work the first time..) in order to keep the
slip line up...
Heres to you bud... I'm one of the few that decided to
stay, and am damn glad that I did..... :)
| 2 |
227 |
[much BS deleted for brevity]
It certainly smacks of that! Remember the "POLL" that you quoted saying that
you had seen a 95% of users being satisfied with DOS 6.0? Care to recall how
unbiased the sample set was? That post sure looked like FUD....and coming
from a microsoftie .... well, it sure seemed like something was not on level.
Advocacy is GOOD - but spreading FUD to advocate your favorite OS is very
unethical - especially when you have a vested interest in the success of that
OS.
That is because their actions seem to invite this opinion - never seen more
defensive people in my life. Moreover, many of their posts seem to encourage
this too, IMHO.
Seriously speaking, it is a shame that MS techie employees get the heat for
MS's actions - most of which are perpetrated by the Management and marketing.
I am sure that they ARE very talented etc ... I have not doubts about their
abilities, just about the ethics of their marketing practices.
Divya
--
Divya | 2 |
3,001 | Hi All,
This is the first time I've posted to the net, so I hope this is
going to the right people.
I'm looking for software packages that run on an IBM PC clone that
allows me to display Openlook and motif windows on the PC.
The idea is to use the PC as a cheap X windows terminal for use by
process Engineers at work.
If anyone can E-Mail me any recommended packages/horror stories/etc
I would be greatful.
Thanks in advance
Mark Wilkinson
| 2 |
262 |
The patches for xv.h need to use ``#ifdef SVR4'' rather than the
overly complex ``#if defined(sun) && defined(SYSV)'' in order to
generically compile XV on i386SVR4Architecture. Also, rand and srand
don't work very well--use lrand48 and seed48 to get better results.
Otherwise, xv-3.00 compiles just fine on my Esix System V 4.0.4 box
with XFree86 and gcc-2.3.3. I just uncommented the gcc definition in
the Makefile, added -L/usr/X386/lib -I/usr/X386/include to the COPTS
line and modified LIBS to include -lsocket -lnsl. Really John, if you
just use the Imakefile things like this don't even have to get
mentioned...
*** 1.1 1993/04/28 08:33:13
--- xv.h 1993/04/28 17:47:38
***************
*** 284,292 ****
--- 284,298 ----
/* signal macros */
+ #ifdef SVR4
+ #define HOLD_SIG sighold(SIGALRM)
+ #define RELEASE_SIG sigrelse(SIGALRM)
+ #define PAUSE_SIG sigpause(SIGALRM)
+ #else
#define HOLD_SIG sigblock(sigmask(SIGALRM))
#define RELEASE_SIG sigblock(0)
#define PAUSE_SIG sigpause(0)
+ #endif
| 2 |
7,134 |
Sorry, I don't have the demo, but I do have the program and have been
using it for the past few weeks. Since I now have Dos 6 as well, I
don't use many of the features of PCT4Win. But I do so use:
- the PCT Desktop with drag and drop printing, folders in
folders, and multiple desktops
- the file manager which is far superior to win 3.1's fm. | 2 |
1,933 |
Or the library might be there but not pointed to by LD_LIBRARY_PATH. | 2 |
366 | Does anyone know where I can find a code which would take concave
polygons and break them up into a set of convex polygons?
Thanks, | 2 |
7,164 | Hi All.
I am working on a project in visual basic ver. 2.0 and I need to show
PostCript files I am getting from another aplication.
So, because i can't show PostScript directly form Visual Basic (at least I
don't know how), i need a utility to convert them to BMP, WMF.
Any help will be appreshieated.
kobi elimelech
---------------------------------------------------------------
messges can be sent to me at kobi@asimov.hacktic.nl | 2 |
1,248 | Hi,
I have the following problem: I have to use a computer for special purposes
that doesn't have a monitor and keyboard connected. No monitor isn't a
program - but no keyboard.
I can't disable the keyboard from BIOS setup (in fact, there is no setup).
I spoke to someone who said that he had fooled the BIOS with simply
using a self-made connector that connects two pins via a resistor.
Pity, pity... I lost contact to the person before getting more detail.
So does anyone of you experts can help?
Thanks for any hints, even vague ones :-)
Thomas | 2 |
364 | I just got a bug report and a fix for this exact problem from
fisher@iscp.bellcore.com (Greg Fisher):
He isolated the problem a proposed a workaround which seems precisely
correct. Here is the new implementation of XmpTableNewProposedLayout
which will be released with the next update in 5 weeks:
Xmp/Table.c:
void XmpTableNewProposedLayout( tw )
XmpTableWidget tw;
{
XmpTableConsiderSameSize( tw );
XmpTableProposedColsAndRows( tw );
XmpTableQueryParentForResize( tw ); /* query only, no resize */
/*
* Since we only made a query, we *should* still need to continue.
* However, Motif is broken so that we actually may already have
* been resized. In that case, the proposed layout is already
* forgotten, so we should just quietly exit.
*/
if ( tw->table.resize_status == RSdueToRequest )
{
XmpTableMakeColsFitQueryWidth( tw );
XmpTableMakeRowsFitQueryHeight( tw );
XmpTableGetProposedChildSize( tw );
XmpTableSaveProposedLayout( tw );
}
/* else the resize has already been done. Our proposed layout would
* have been forgotten in the process.
*/
}
The XpTable the fix is identical, except of course for the names:
Xp/Table.c:
void XpTableNewProposedLayout( tw )
XpTableWidget tw;
{
XpTableConsiderSameSize( tw );
XpTableProposedColsAndRows( tw );
XpTableQueryParentForResize( tw ); /* query only, no resize */
/*
* Since we only made a query, we *should* still need to continue.
* However, some manager widgets are broken so that we actually may
* already have * been resized. In that case, the proposed layout
* is already forgotten, so we should just quietly exit.
*/
if ( tw->table.resize_status == RSdueToRequest )
{
XpTableMakeColsFitQueryWidth( tw );
XpTableMakeRowsFitQueryHeight( tw );
XpTableGetProposedChildSize( tw );
XpTableSaveProposedLayout( tw );
}
/* else the resize has already been done. Our proposed layout would
* have been forgotten in the process.
*/
}
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
David Smyth david@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov
Senior Software Engineer, (818)306-6193 (do NOT use v-mail yet!)
CCCP, X and Object Guru. office: 525/C165
Jet Propulsion Lab, M/S 525-3660 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91109
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
"That Sun Windows thingy, what's it called? You know, its
really awful. X? Motif? That's it - Motif! Yuck!" | 2 |
5,759 | How can I find these files and graphics that people
are downloading from their Unix systems? Then, how
do I download them? I am a complete beginner in
this (obviously), so please baby-step me through
the process. First of all, I don't see amongst
these newsgroups where there is anything remotely
like a GIF, TIF, or compiled shareware program?
Thanks in advance for any information you can
give me. (I know there is a Unix command, "ftp,"
that will allow me to do this, but first I
need to know where to go to find the file
I want download via ftp, etc.
Thomas Helke
egret@wet.UUCP | 2 |
2,447 | Could anyone please explain what Bit Planes are? We have an SGI here at work
that says it has 64 Bit Planes - what does this mean? How does this relate to
PC graphics? What do they usually have? Please reply via Email as most of
this group is over my head.
Thanks in advance!!!
Bob Gruen | 2 |
5,472 | I'm posting this request again since the last one had no title.
I'm looking for X server software on DOS or Windows.
I've already seen Desqview/X and XVision but would like to be aware
of other solutions, namely public domain or shareware implementations.
I'd also like to know, in the commercial case, about possible problems,
incompatibilities, available window managers and libraries, etc.
If you have any experiences in this area please let me know.
C U!
By(e) | 2 |
7,438 | I have a Gateway 4dx2/66v. Does anyone know if I csn (or can't)
Duse 32 bit access?
D
D
| 2 |
1,853 | I would like to prevent our Windows users from using
ctl-alt-del from within windows. I know there must be
a way to do it.
Could anyone point me in the right direction?
Thanks in advance,
Mike Glynn
mike.glynn@business.gatech.edu | 2 |
3,779 |
A map of Italy showing the states/provinces(?) is in the FreeHand
3.1 for Windows clip art collection. Corel Draw 3.0 clip art has
an outline map of Italy.
| 2 |
6,964 | University of Toronto
Instructional and Research Computing
is sponsoring a technical presentation
on Visualization Software
_A_d_v_a_n_c_e_d _V_i_s_u_a_l _S_y_s_t_e_m_s (_A_V_S) _S_o_f_t_w_a_r_e
2:10 PM - 4:00 PM
Thursday, May 6, 1993
Sandford Fleming Building
Room 1105
"Advanced Visual Systems will present this technical seminar on
AVS, the world's leading visualization software package. AVS is
a point and click, module driven, easy-to-use product that
produces full color, two or three dimensional rendered scenes for
interactive observation. It is supported on all current Unix
RISC platforms from Sun, SGI, IBM, H-P, DG, and DEC. It also
runs under DEC VMS.
"AVS is in its fourth year on the street and is very mature. All
fields of science, engineering, medicine, and even business
applications now use AVS. This seminar will focus on its many
features in technical detail during a half hour slide
presentation. Following a question period there will be a live
demonstration using a Sun SPARCstation. In addition, a new AVS
program called CAMPUS will be introduced at this meeting.
"Also discussed will be the International AVS Center, which
provides an on-line repository of over 1000 graphics modules at
the North Carolina Supercomputer Center in Raliegh, NC. AVS has
imbedded tools to write one's own customized modules should these
not be available with AVS or from AVS International."
_S_p_e_a_k_e_r_s
The scheduled speaker for this presentation is Mr. Paul
Ecklund of Ecklund Associates, the distributor of AVS in
Canada. | 2 |
3,200 | It is the new command with Dos 6 that allows you to erase your directory and
all the files in it, without first erasing the individual files.
-- | 2 |
5,449 | : Just curious why floptical drives never seemed to catch on. Remember
: those 21 Mb disks that look and feel like 3.5" floppies? These drives
: are SCSI devices and can read and write both 720 Kb and 1.44/21 Mb
: disks. Sounds to me to be one great product for the PC market. Are the
: prices really that unaffordable compared to CD-ROMs which are currently
: not rewritable? I know about the new rewritable CDs and expect SONY to
: develop the first MDs for the computer. My question is: why isn't there
: any substantial interest in developing the flopticals?
Certainly in the UK the 21Mb flopticals are about the same price as a
cheap CD-ROM now (you seem to be able to get them for around GBP
200-250). However the bigger optical drives (e.g. 128Mb) are much more
expensive - around the GBP 1000 mark.
A couple of questions that someone may be able to answer - the 21Mb
flopticals - are they direct drop in replacements for a floppy or do
they need driver software etc. I.e. do you just rip out the floppy
drive, plug the same cables into the floptical, stick in a flopti-disk
and hey presto you have a 21Mb floppy. This sounds far too easy.
On the subject of Sony developing MDs for computers, I have reread a
PCW article on this subject and there it says that Sony have been doing
optical drives for other people for some time and may be about to do a
product themselves. From the article it seems that the audio MD format
is a byproduct of their computer storage work - the MD mechanism is
identical to their MO computer optical drives. A Sony spokesman was
quoted as saying that a 2.5" MD disk would hold about 100Mb of data
though he refused to comment on any possibility of this being
productized.
The article said that one of the problems holding back development in
this area was lack of sensible standards plus there are at least 2
distinct optical storage mechanisms around at present. Given that it
probably needs MDs being used as a distribution medium to get it
into the market and since this has already been cornered by CDs it
probably needs someone to come in with a very strong marketting lead
to get MDs accepted.
-- | 2 |
4,769 | I posted almost the same bad experience with Midwest Micro but our
%^*^&*^&* news program only sent one paragraph out of the middle. In
addition to the facts that:
(a) the modems (I had ordered two) wouldn't work as documented
and
(b) the tech person had NO CLUE as to how it should work,
it also turned out that:
(c) one of the two modems they sent was clearly USED but the techs
thought that was standard practice and
(d) the modems made all three of my floppy drives quit working and
my CMS250 tape drive start running away.
That they are incompetent is one thing, but that they sell used stuff
as new and won't even apologize for it is another. Stay away from
these crooks! | 2 |
6,622 | Hi
I am looking for an algorithm or pointers to any papers on how to convert
Quadratic Splines to Cubic Splines or Beizeirs. If source is available
in the public domain, please let me know.
Thanks very much
-ks
| 2 |
24 | A couple of points :-
I have an Adaptec 1542B and am very happy with it.
Not so! I have both IDE and an Adaptec1542B in the same box and can use both
disks at the same time, eg. IDE to SCSI disk copy.
Well, one statement and one correction!
Guy | 2 |
1,004 | please subscrive me. | 2 |
5,781 | Is there a hot-key for the Windows 3.1 screen saver utility? If not, is
there an easy way to create one? The reason that I need one is that my
dad's company is anal retentive about leaving a computer while the
information can be accessed so the employees are not allowed to walk away
from the computer until the screen saver kicks in (as if that is terribly
secure). Also, the system manager won't let any software be added so
another program such as LOCK32.ZIP from cica or a different screen saver
is out.
Thanks for any and all help. | 2 |
2,979 |
A program called Mac-ette allows you to read Mac 3.5"
high-density disks on a DOS machine. You can get the program from
simtel-20. I'm not sure of the directory location.
| 2 |
2,481 | Can someone who knows what they're talking about add a FAQ entry
on gamma correction? Thanks. | 2 |
3,291 | Hello ,
I need a microsoft mouse driver, but newer as 8.6 for
going in dos window under ms windows, but it is must be freeware.
I have version 7.00 .
Tx Mike | 2 |
170 | I am looking for a shareware graphics package called NeoPaint v1.1. I
saw it in a shareware catalog and was hoping that I could FTP it from
the net but have been unable to locate it. I have tried Archie and I
have gone through the entire comp.graphics newsgroup looking for some
reference to it and have found none. I have also looked through the
FAQ and also no reference. The program is called NeoPaint v1.1 and if
anyone has heard of it or knows where I can get it I would appreciate
it.
Suggestions for other PC based shareware paint programs would also be
appreciated. Email me your responses. | 2 |
3,015 | Hi there,
Could someone please suggest one of the better _shareware_
replacements for Win3.1's Program Manager and File Manager?
And which ftp site are they located at?
Thanks in advance for e-mail response. | 2 |
6,532 |
DB-25 DB-9
Pin # Pin # Name EIA CCITT DTE-DCE Description
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1 FG AA 101 ---- Frame ground
2 3 TD BA 103 ---> Transmitted data
3 2 RD BB 104 <--- Received data
4 7 RTS CA 105 ---> Request to send
5 8 CTS CB 106 <--- Clear to send
6 6 DSR CC 107 <--- Data set ready
7 5 SG AB 102 ---- Signal ground
8 1 DCD CF 109 <--- Data carrier detect
9 -- -- - - Positive DC test voltage
10 -- -- - - Negative DC test voltage
11 QM -- - <--- Equalizer mode
12 SDCD SCF 122 <--- Secondary data carrier detect
13 SCTS SCB 121 <--- Secondary clear to send
14 STD SBA 118 ---> Secondary transmitted data
15 TC DB 114 <--- Transmitter clock
16 SRD SBB 119 <--- Secondary receiver clock
17 RC DD 115 ---> Receiver clock
18 DCR -- - <--- Divided clock receiver
19 SRTS SCA 120 ---> Secondary request to send
20 4 DTR CD 108.2 ---> Data terminal ready
21 SQ CG 110 <--- Signal quality
22 9 RI CE 125 <--- Ring indicator
23 -- CH 111 ---> Data rate selector
24 -- CI 112 <--- Data rate selector
25 TC DA 113 <--- Transmitted clock
.-.-.- from another posting in c.s.i.p.h .-.-.-
.-.-.- sorry, don't know the author .-.-.-.-.-.
Connecting devices
------------------
Normally, a 7 wire connection is used. Connect:
GND1 to GND2
RxD1 to TxD2
TxD1 to RxD2
DTR1 to DSR2
DSR1 to DTR2
RTS1 to CTS2
CTS1 to RTS2
If a modem is connected, add lines for the following:
RI, DCD
If software wants it, connect DCD1 to CTS1 and DCD2 to CTS2.
BEWARE! While PCs use pin 2 for RxD and pin 3 for TxD, modems normally
have those pins reversed! This allows to easily connect pin1 to pin1, pin2
to pin 2 etc. If you connect two PCs, cross RxD and TxD.
If hardware handshaking is not needed, a so-called null-modem connection
can be used. Connect:
GND1 to GND2
RxD1 to TxD2
TxD1 to RxD2
Additionally, connect (if software needs it):
RTS1 to CTS1 & DCD1
RTS2 to CTS2 & DCD2
DTR1 to DSR1
DTR2 to DSR2
You won't need long wires for these!
The null-modem connection is used to establish an XON/XOFF-transmission
between two PCs (see software section for details).
Remember: the names DTR, DSR, CTS & RTS refer to the lines as seen from
the PC. This means that for your data set DTR & RTS are incoming signals
and DSR & CTS are outputs!
.-.-.-.- end .-.-.-
Michael | 2 |
5,266 | 2 | |
6,769 | : Hi!
:
: Is it possible through either pin configuration or through software
: programming to change the IP numbers on an ethernet card?
:
: Thanks in Advance!
:
: --
: =-Dave *Tigger!*
:
: djohnson@moose.uvm.edu 'Tiggers are wonderful things!'
: Dave C Johnson
I think you mean the ethernet numbers. The 8 byte ethernet id is the unique
Electronic Serial Number (ESN) assigned to each ethernet board in existence.
This is a "physical layer" concept. The IP address is a higher layer protocol.
The analogy to telephone service is the IP address is your phone number, while
the particular wire pair in the cable on the pole has some (unknown to you or
I) physical identification scheme (number).
But to answer your question (assuming you indeed meant the Ethernet number)
it is not supposed to be possible to change the number. Of course the
manufacturer can always retro-fit a board, but there could hardly be a
reason to ever do that.
If your question is actually referring to the IP address, it is most definetly
changable. But it is strictly software. | 2 |
3,062 | I have not seen articles in comp.graphics.research for a long time.
Does it/he work anymore?
I have seen many conference related postings in comp.graphics,
and it is hard to believe that people have not tried to post them to
c.g.research.
If somebody has not got his article to comp.graphics.research, then
write to me or post here.
| 2 |
4,378 | Hi all netters,
If I upgrade my XT with a 286+ motherboard, will I be able to use the old
bits and pieces like HD, FD, graphics card and I/O card etc. Thanks for you
info.
P.S. I am sorry if my question is on some kind of FAQ.
regards, | 2 |
4,952 | PaintShop Pro for Windows is a fantastic product. It can handle TIFF, GIF,
BMP, PCX, and many other formats, displaying them and converting between
them. There is a shareware version of the program; I assume it's available
in the Windows areas of the standard anonymous FTP locations (I'd try
ftp.cica.indiana.edu). Log in as ftp, use your username as a password,
and look for a program called PSP101.exe or something like that. I have
the registered version, and the only major difference I can detect is that
the unregistered version pops up a message when you start the program
asking you to please register it.
Once again, FANTASTIC software. Up to 24 bits, huge images, everything.
-Brian
| 2 |
3,658 |
What's sort of interesting about this whole thread is just how much
it has in common with similar threads in groups dealing with other vendor's
hardware. I currently deal basically with hardware from 3 vendors - Apple,
DEC, and SGI - and thus tend to monitor the groups about those vendor's
hardware. Currently, it seems like SGI customers are pissed at SGI about
dropping support for the Personal Iris, DEC customers are pissed at DEC for
dropping MIPS support in favor of the new Alpha boxes, and Apple customers
seem to get pissed every time a new Mac is introduced that's faster and
cheaper than the one they just bought. When I used to be a Sun customer
years ago, I remember people being pissed at Sun for leaving their 386
and 680x0 customers out in the cold when Sparc came along.
What's really interesting is that from what I can tell, the MIS
folks in the basement with their ES/9000 don't seem to be pissed at IBM.
Why? I have no idea. Either IBM really does take care of their customers
better, or they just have their customers brainwashed better than the
smaller vendors do. | 2 |
7,291 | Article #61058 (61121 is last):
From: redmond+@cs.cmu.edu (Redmond English)
Subject: Diamond Stealth: HELP!
Date: Wed Apr 21 16:54:39 1993
Hello,
I have a Diamond Stealth VRAM card (the older version
with the DIP switches on the back). I have two problems:
1 ) I've lost the manual!!!
2 ) I have it in a machine with a network card, and
everything works fine until I run windows, when
the network connection dies.
(In case it's important, the network card is an
SMC ArcNet 8-Bit compatable card. It's I/O
address is 02E0 and it's RAM base address is
D000. It's also using IRQ 2)
Shown 54%, press <SPACE> for more, 'q' to quit, or 'h' for help
I believe there is a file on the Diamond Bboard that
explains how to sort this out, but with no manual, I don't
know the Bboard number.
If you can, please help me with as many of the following
as possible:
a ) Send me the Diamond BBS number
b ) E-mail (or post) the DIP switch settings for the card
(or fax them to me at (412) 521-8668)
c ) Tell me what I'm doing wrong, so I can magicly get
everything working.
Any help at all would be much appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Red/.
End of File, Press RETURN to quit
-------------------------------
Date: Thu Apr 22 02:38:16 1993
To: redmond+@cs.cmu.edu
Subject: Re: Diamond Stealth: HELP!
Diamond BBS 2400 baud...1-408-730-1100...9600 baud 1-408-524-9301
voice 1-408-736-2000...fax 1-408-730-5750....Sam
-------------------------------
Press RETURN to continue: | 2 |
5,816 |
The problem was that TextField was improperly walking the string; it used
the character count instead of the byte count... a significan "Oops".
The problem has been fixed and the patch is included in the latest periodic
patch from HP support services. | 2 |
2,452 | Perhaphs what Bill Gates and Steve Jobs are now is the result of the
natural evolution of a "successful" hacker. Either you make money, go
to jail (Lee Feldenstein [sp?]), or just fade away as "Oh, that's uncle
so-and-so who *really* likes computers...".
What a "computer hacker" is and does will change as long as the definition
of the word "computer" continues to change.
| 2 |
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