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2,739 | We are researching what support there is on various platforms for applications
to use multi-byte characters (e.g., Japanese Kanji). We know that Unix
and X Windows can contain support for the i18N standard (depending on level
and platform). What support for i18N or wide characters exists on the Mac,
Windows 3.1 and Windows NT?
| 2 |
817 | Here's the situation:
At home, I have MS Word for windows but no printer. At work, I
have windows + a postscript printer, but not MS Word. So, I
configure my machine at home to use a postscript printer, and use
the print to file option, which produces a nice postscript file,
which I then bring to work.
My question: how do I print this postscript file through the print
manager at work? If, for example, I select print from the file
manager, it treats the postscript as a text file, and gives me
several pages of postscript gibberish.
I know that I can open a DOS window and do:
copy file.ps com1:
which does work, but seems not to multitask very well -- other applications
run rather slowly and often pause for 10's of seconds.
There ought to be a way of passing the postscript file to the Print
Manager, but if there is, I can't find any mention of it in the
documentation.
Anyone know how to do this?
| 2 |
3,135 |
I imagine that was the MKS Toolkit, from Mortice Kern Systems.
Another third party add-in, and a good one too.
| 2 |
5,864 |
Hi
I would like to know if there is any software, PD or not, who
could produce X11 output of HPGL file on RS/6000. And same kind of
software who could produce hardcopy on postscript and lasetjet.
Try export.lcs.mit.edu. I think that there is a viewer there called
xviewgl. Check the README in /contrib.
| 2 |
6,007 | I've noticed a recent proliferation of 1 gig SCSI-2 3.5" drives, in
particular, the Fujitsu 2694 and the Micropolis 2112. There is also the
Maxtor LXT1240s (6100 rpm, 1.2 gig) drive. They are all quite cheap,
and have nice 3-5 year warranties.
My questions are: Is there a catch?
Which one is better?
What type of SCSI-2 do these drives use?
Is the service generally better for one of these
manufacturers?
Are prices likely to go down soon for any reason?
thanks, | 2 |
4,944 | I checked the FAQ on this first, and no luck..
I need to convert the R5 Tree widget for use with xview v3.0. The
problem is the fact that xview uses their own event loop system, and I
was wondering if anyone had any tips (or converted source) on converting
these pups.
| 2 |
452 | I have a question about the autocheck-boxes in Windows.
Is it a possibility to let the boxes have several different colors at the
same time?
Frode Kvam :-)
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6,674 | Due to some problems with my IDE drive, I LL formatted the Maxitor7213AT.
Now it started to give me some errors in some applications. I was told
Maxitor has a utility called IDE_INT in their BBS, anyone tried it? Can
some one tell me what that BBS number is? Or better, can I find the file
in some ftp site? Or perhaps someone can email it to me? Thanks.
Feng | 2 |
1,744 | Have you checked Foley's book? The solutions are in chapter 13. | 2 |
4,778 | Somebody help me cure my poor computer before I go insane!
I have a problem with my 486 when running windows that appears
to be memory-related. It's actually not limited to windows, but
that's where it causes most of my problems. Ths machine's 486DX33,
8Meg RAM, 256Kcache, TRIDENT TVGA card, PAS-16 soundcard.
1) Windows runs REALLY, REALLY slow most of the time. Slower than
on my old 386SX16. Graphics draws/fills are slow, boots are slow,
applications are sluggish, dialog boxes take up to 15 seconds to appear.
(Note: some of my other non-windows applications do funny things that
appear to be related. Several run slow, my .mod player crashes the
system etc..)
2) Running Borland C++ 3.0 before running windows (or any of the other
programs) COMPLETELY fixes the problem. Windows will run as fast as
I've ever seen it run, easily 10 times faster for graphics than
when I don't run BC beforehand.
3) I don't have a memory manager installed in config.sys. Installing
emm386.exe does not fix the problem- it makes it worse. After emm386 is
installed, running BC will not fix the problem anymore. | 2 |
2,883 | Has anybody built an X11R5 server that can run on a Personal Decstation
5000 line with ultrix 4.3? The only catch is that being "personal" machines,
we did not install DECnet onto them, which the Xdec server on gatekeeper
requires. | 2 |
3,741 |
If you already own all the "clone" equipment then there are lots of such
programs (see a current copy of Unix World Magazine).
*BUT* your performance WILL suck lemons running an Xserver on a clone.
(From experience). You would be much better off with an Xterminal if this
is a new install. The performance will be at least four times better.
In addition it would be MUCH easier to install and use. On top of that
they will cost about the same (price a clone with 4MB RAM, ethernet card,
very high performance graphics card, GOOD monitor, server software, TCP/IP
for clone software, mouse, keyboard, etc, etc, etc.... you spend a whole
lot of $$$$).
I can get 15" Tektronix XP11 terminals for under $900, and the performance
is over 80000 Xstones..... | 2 |
6,694 | Hi peeps,
Here's another of those "any ideas" type queries.
I've been given an oldish Phillips TeleVideo terminal type thingy, without
a keyboard. But no problem so far.
When I dismantled it, I discovered that it is really just a standard
RGB monitor with built in modem/ROM software etc.
Phillips kindly labelled the circuit board with the RGB inputs, so I
connected it up as a monitor and he presto it worked - sort of.
The problem is that I have no idea where to connect the Sync lines.
The display rolls continuously, but does change modes (OK only to
CGA - but useful for my laptop).
Any of you wonderful people any knowledge of Phillips monitors?
I've tried Phillips in the UK and a very helpful guy told me that
he has had several enquiries of this sort, but Phillips Computer
is now under the auspices of DEC (at least in the UK). DEC said
sorry Phillips don't make it any more. What is it anyway?
A UK support dealer said "Circuit diagrams? Sync?"
So any ideas.
John.
| 2 |
6,283 |
Nah... I figure most people would be so busy reading that they wouldn't
have *time* to post. :-) :-) :-)
spl | 2 |
4,700 | Hi,
I'm looking for a program which is able to display 24 bits
images. We are using a Sun Sparc equipped with Parallax
graphics board running X11. | 2 |
2,123 | Yes, it is. It is available at ftp.ctr.columbia.edu, probably
in pub/xkernel.
In response to the earlier gentlemans question, you could
theoretically recompile xkernel on a sun4. The binaries available are
for the sun3/50, but the author says it could be used on most
architectures, and he does have a 'do-it-yourself' type distribution.
We use Xkernel for about 7 machines here. email me if you
have any questions I can help you with... | 2 |
2,583 | As the title says...Does anyone know of a Text editor (like notepad) that
can handle large text files?....Thanx for any and all help!
________________________________________________________________________ | 2 |
3,618 | : I have the following problem on X11R5 servers.
:
: When a window of my is obscured by a pop up window which has
: the Save Under attribute set, the subwindows of my window are not restored.
: Normally, the subwindows are redrawn when the parent window gets an expose
: event, but because the save under attribute is used for the pop up window
: that obscured my window, no expose event is sent.
We had the same problem and on most of our machines it works if we use
Backing Store instead of Save under.
Marcus | 2 |
2,382 | The Only directory I know of that lists commercial and non-commercial
widgets is the ICS Widget Data book. ICS sells the widgets for various
prices. There are also some public domain widgets in the delivery.
The ICS Widget databook is a subscription kind of thing, where
you pay some nominal fee, get a cd with the widgets and then you
can use the public domain widgets freely, and selectively activate
widgets which you want to purchase the right to use from them.
The nice thing about this is that you can purchase whole sets of widgets
such as those used in dataviews. I dont know there pricing schemes
but It is often better to buy than to redevelop the more complex
widgets, especially if you only one customer to distribute to.
This is the extent that I know about them except that I got their
databook catalog and it looked impressive (lots o' widgets there)
I dont work for ICS or have any widgets being sold by them.
hope this helps you.
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1,058 |
It came from a reseller survey.
I don't recall any FUD here. Maybe an example?
For the most part, this newsgroup is "attack" oriented. Microsoft has been
attacked on anything ranging from the quality of our products, the
intelligence of our people, the integrity of our business, etc. ANYONE
would get defensive when being baselessly attacked. We are human beings as
well. You should expect a response when a claim that an employee might
feel is unwarranted is leveled. | 2 |
4,037 | G'Day All,
I'm looking for a program to convert BMP images to GIF, TGA or even PPM.
I'd prefer a unix program, but Dos is fine also.
I've seen Alchemy (for DOS) and some windows image viewers which can save
an image in other formats, but what I'm after is a converter not a viewer...
Any help would be apprieciated!
cheers
Stephen. | 2 |
4,544 | Hello,
I have some problem in converting tga file(generated by POVray) to
rle file. When I convert, I do not get any warning message. But
if I use xloadimage/getx11, something is wrong.
Error messages are,
% targatorle -o o.rle data.tga
% xloadimage o.rle
o.rle is a 0x0 24 bit RLE image with no map (will dither to 8 bits), with gamma of 1.00
Dithering image...done
Building XImage...done
xloadimage: X Error: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation) on 0x0
xloadimage: X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) on 0xb00003
......
I know that I need to install ppmtorle and tgatoppm, but I do not spend
time to install them. Even I do not want to generate .rgb from POVray
and then convert them to rle, if possible.(.rgb to rle works, but
it will mess up my directory with so many files, and it needs 2 more
steps to finally convert to rle file. say cat | rawtorle | rleflip )
Does any body out there have same experience/problems ?
Thanks in advance, | 2 |
5,694 | I have written a server program which makes socket connections to many nodes
and collects data from that nodes periodically. I need to display this data on
my X Application. I tried
to invoke this server using XtAddAppTimeout which works ok. But the
problem here is some time there is delay in collecting data. So I doesn't
returns to EventLoop during that time and my application remains busy and
It doesn't respond to users input. I button press events are queued and
exected after server finished its task. Now I am going to try AppAddInput
call. So that It reads pipe only when there is something to read in pipe.
I am thinking of creating one pipe in which server will write and client
which is my X application will read. Now I have some doubts which you may
be able to clarify.
1) When I fork a process. It will create to copy of my process. Right !!
Now what does this two copies mean? Two Shells. Where should I fork
my application. What are the responsibilities of this processes. How
should I call this processes.?
2) Can I fork more than one processes. So that I can read from more
than one servers input.
Thanks
Samir Patel
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5,239 | Hi,
I just sent a mail to Turgut Kalfaoglu (sp?), the maintainer of the list,
and asked him what's going on. If the list is (for whatever reason) really
dead, we might have to put up a list ourselves. But for now, I want to wait
for his answer.
Frank | 2 |
4,771 | Hi, netters:
We have a problem with 'makedepend': it doesn't know how to correctly process
#if clause in C preprocessor statements. It evaluates everything to
true no matter what the conditionals are.
For example, makedepend chokes on one of X11 include files (as distributed
by Sun) - namely Xos.h:
#if !defined(SUNOS41) || defined(__STDC__)
# include <string.h>
# define index strchr
# define rindex strrchr
#else /* BSD && !__STDC__ */
# include <strings.h>
#endif /* !SUNOS41 || __STDC__ */
Here 'makedepend' evaluates both #if and corresponding #else statements
to 'true' and tries to open the file <strings.h> which doesn't exist
under Solaris2.
We also have a lot of #if statements in some of our legacy code.
We got and built 'makedepend' off the net - it didn't fix the problem.
In all fairness it should be noted that 'makdepend' man-page (Sun's
distribution) mentions this problem:
BUGS
If you do not have the source for cpp, the Berkeley C
preprocessor, then makedepend will be compiled in such a way
that all #if directives will evaluate to "true" regardless
of their actual value. This may cause the wrong #include
directives to be evaluated. Makedepend should simply have
its own parser written for #if expressions.
Has anybody come up with some solution/fix to 'makdepend' other than
WriteYourOwnParser... and willing to share it with us?
Since we often experience delays in our newsfeed - please reply
directly to my e-mail address -> I'll post a summary. | 2 |
5,687 | Hi!
I need a Windows 3.1 driver for the Matrox PG-1281 CV
SVGA card.
At the moment Windows runs only in the 640x480 mode.
If you have a driver for this card, please send it
with the OEMSETUP.INF to
bockamp@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE
Thanks!
| 2 |
2,580 |
486DX2/66 is faster for this if you are using DOS. PC Mag reviewed a bunch
of 486DX2/66 and a 486DX50 and the486DX2/66 was faster...
THe review was in the last month of two.
Guy | 2 |
6,886 |
Start the renamed saver vid the commandline option /s. | 2 |
1,255 | Due it seems to Sun's crapulous organisation of the X libraries and includes,
most standard (GNU and other) software won't compile out of the box (well, tar
file).
Right now I'm trying to make ghostview. It complains it can't find X11/XaW/...
so I just linked (ln -s) the files from /usr/openwin/share/include/X11 and
now the ghoddam thing _still_ complains it can't find them.
I still haven't been able to compile xdvi, not no way.
Has anyone _ever_ managed to get _anything_ normal to compile on a Sun
(SunOS 4.1.3 and OpenWindows 3)? What's the trick I'm missing? I've even
tried hard copying all the relevant files into the "right" places and
every time, there's some bit missing or it refuses to find it. | 2 |
3,492 | From article <1993May15.091822.14174@lth.se>, by knut@tts.lth.se (Ake Knutsson):
Put ProgMan (with the hotkey) in your StartUp -group. Should do it. | 2 |
1,799 | Seeing all these questions about uart types, their availability, and their
relative merits, wouldn't it be fine, if for internal highspeed modems there
were a mode of operation bypassing the dull and stupid uart interface and
instead accessing directly the relatively large send/receive buffers of the
modem, thus eliminating all problems with interrupt latencies ?
Just an idea,
Wolfgang R. Mueller <dvs@ze8.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de>,
Computing Centre, Heinrich-Heine-University, Duesseldorf, Germany.
| 2 |
1,185 | I'm interested in obtaining the highest possible image capture in a
MS-Windows application. The resulting image must go to print and high resolution
is the name of the game. I'm familiar with (and unhappy with) composite video
capture technology. What kind of resolution can I get out of an SVHS signal?
What about RGB (and who makes RGB cameras)? Does anyone have any experience
with digital cameras?
Any help at all would be greatly appreciated.
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1,903 | initially, 79 returned to active use, 80 new sectors marked bad, following
successive runs of spinrite.
I think I need a new ESDI HDD controller.
I know that these two will work:
DTC 6280
Adaptec 2322B
Others that MIGHT work:
DTC 6282
Ultra Store 12
WD 1007V
If you own one and will sell it cheaply I'll buy it.
Thanks,
-Greg Bishop
gt3635a@hydra.gatech.edu | 2 |
6,773 |
Or somebody get them by a local call and contact a ftp site for
uploading. If this is not possible, I can keep them on my disk and
email the at request uuencoded. Provided, that somebody sends them to
me, of cource. (I live in NY:-)
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Penio Penev x7423 (212)327-7423 (w) Internet: penev@venezia.rockefeller.edu | 2 |
6,571 | Is this newsgroup archived anywhere beyond the normal expiration
dates, say for the last 6 months or more? | 2 |
6,227 | Hi,
I have a lots of problems using XView (libraries Release 3.2) in order to
do the following:
+ I want to create a MODAL Dialog which block the program flow
(a syncronous dialog, ala Macintosh) , as the Notice Panel
does, but with Text Item, List Item, and other XView objects.
+ The MODAL Dialog also must allows the Timer to be called (why
Notice doesn't do that?).
The problems are:
- Using the "xv_window_loop" functions most XView objects dont work
(as the List Item), and the timers aren't called.
- With the "notify_dispatch" explicit I have problem because:
"...never attempt to do direct dispaching from within a callback
routine..." as say the "XView Programming Manual (Third Edition)"
on page 486 (uhm... I know this number!!! :->).
But I need to do dispatching just inside a callback routine!
Help me, please!!!
Thanks in advance,
--- Giovanni
P.S. Please, send replay directly to my address belove (I haven't
direct access to Internet). | 2 |
5,614 | ... | 2 |
3,922 |
..
I think the -traditional option to gcc would help.
personally I used -traditional -O2 -funroll-loops to compile it
on SUN4.1.1.
hope this helps... | 2 |
1,522 | hi netters,
I'm doing a project which is about image analysis. Firstly, I
have to find out any restrictions or limitations on the colour display
on various kind of workstations, they are DECstation, HP, Amiga, Apollo.
Secondly, I read from some graphic texts that image is displayed
in 24 bites(please point out to me if I got it wrong). But, the images
which I will deal with are displayed in 16 bites by the software they
are using currently. So, will there be any problems to display them
under X-windows in the future? Because we are thinking to implement the
GUI by X-windows for our project
Is there any person here can help me to solve the problem or
query above? Or, give me some advice or suggestion where I can find
them out.
Please send me an e-mail if there are any. Thanks in advance.
Yours
Christine Chan
| 2 |
6,192 |
Note that the two tables don't talk about the same population. One is
Fortune 1000 companies favoring the platform as their primary
application platform, the other is sales (to everyone, not just
Fortune 1000). Fortune 1000 companies don't do a lot of development
with the Mac as their top platform. I would expect that that would
explain the discrepancy.
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"Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live
in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden | 2 |
4,747 | My original post:
Aha, I think I found the problem and it isn't dirt! Another guy here was
using a different kind of mouse and was using 640x400x16 video driver (the
default VGA for Windows). He has an S3 LocalBus card like I do and when I
loaded the S3 video driver in Windows for him, his mouse became jumpy too.
Seems like it is the S3 driver! Is there any newer one than version 1.4
that would solve this problem? It is really bad. I have to use the
keyboard instead sometimes! The s3-w31.zip on cica is version 1.4 (which is
the same version that came with my card).
---
Sean Eckton
Computer Support Representative
College of Fine Arts and Communications
D-406 HFAC
Brigham Young University
Provo, UT 84602
(801)378-3292 | 2 |
4,767 |
[...]
^^^^^^^^^
He doesn't have a beard.
Rob, being pointless, wondeing if anyone else caught that.
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================== / .clarku.edu \ want Clarkies to think about them. | 2 |
4,542 |
I have two SCSI hard drives, each has 512KB of 'cache'.
There several reasons for this :-
When the drive has read requested data from the disk the SCSI bus may be
busy. This data needs to be stored some where until the bus is free and
the data can be transmitted.
When the drive receives data to be written, the data can come down the bus
faster than the drive can write it to the disk. It needs to be stored
somewhere while the disk is writing it out.
In these situations the memory is being used as a buffer NOT a cache!
May be the drive does some read-adead caching as well...
Guy | 2 |
456 | My disk that had my joystick code that some of you were kind enough to mail
me puked....specifically, I am looking for C code to read the position
of joystick WITHOUT using int15h, i.e. accessing port 0x200/0x201 directly.
I need it in C becaues of memory model considerations.
I only need to be able to read the X and Y position also. | 2 |
3,288 | Does anyone know what the standard port addresses are for COM ports 5
through 8? (If there is a standard of any sort!)
Please e-mail, as I don't read this group very often. | 2 |
4,487 |
Is it possible through either pin configuration or through software
programming to change the IP numbers on an ethernet card?
The Ethernet card doesn't use the IP number (32-bits, usually
#.#.#.#); it uses the Ethernet address (48-bits, usually
#:#:#:#:#:#). I have never run across an Ethernet controller that
cannot be programmed to use an address that is not assigned to it.
DECNET requires this feature.
However, that said, there is no reason to ever change the Ethernet
address. They are globally unique, the first three bytes being
assigned to the manufacturer by the IEEE, and the last three by the
manufacturer. | 2 |
2,119 |
You're right, it doesn't appear to working correctly. It really
should say:
"space: the last frontier"
across the top. :) :) :)
| 2 |
1,561 | Can I view JPEG files without special hardware? | 2 |
5,122 | SCO ODT allows to adapt the X-Server to any non-standard (AT) keyboard
using the Xkeyboard configuration compiler xsconfig. SCO provides some
configuration files in /usr/lib/X11/xsconfig/*.kbd, e.g. for
Siemens WX200.
Question:
Is there anywhere a configuration file for the HP46021A keyboard
available ?
I am especially interested in using the HP specific keys such as
"InsertLine", "Menu". | 2 |
5,849 | I'm still looking for Fractint drivers or a new release which supports the
24bit color mode of the Diamond Speedstar 24X. There are some 2, 4 and 26
million colros drivers, but none work with the 24X.
Any help would be appreciated!
Thanks!
Chad
| 2 |
4,616 |
It isn't. ;-)
Use tar on the Un*x box and gtak110.zip on the DOS box. Needs ASPI driver.
Ralf
| 2 |
783 |
I don't think the two main free X systems ( XS3 and XFree86 ) are part
of the FSF as such.
Does anyone know of an e-mail address for Diamond to which Penio could
forward his purchase information?
Guy | 2 |
1,131 |
Yes, but it's broken on OW 2.0. It does not handle multiple pages
well. If you don't have the proper PostScript commands it will
draw the entire document on the same page instead of pausing after
each page. I haven't tried OW 3.0 yet, though. | 2 |
7,126 | Please remove me from this mailing list - we finally
got our news feed!
Ron L.
| 2 |
2,340 | Hi, folks,
I have a question:
How can I generate a PCX file using Word for Windows (2.0) ?
I know I can select a Postscript printer driver to get a PS file, but how
can I generate a PCX file ? Is there a printer capture utility for windows
that ever exists ? Or a utility to transfer PS format to PCX format, or
TIFF format?
Please reply by E-MAIL, I will give a summary. Thanks. | 2 |
2,685 |
That is, if the special software is free, like Xfree86. There are
vendors that sells Diamond X drivers for commercial Unices. But
then, they charge $$$$.
I think they only need a signing (i.e. no paying). This still
violates the FSF's policy of publically available code.
While this is true, there are fixes for those who have already
bought Diamond cards. In Linux, for example, there are utilities
that will put the card in VESA mode before invoking X. Of course,
this means no fine tuning of Diamond cards, but at least this
will allow those who're stuck with them to use Linux+X.
I agree with Mark's suggestion: If you are buying a video card
for specialized free software, avoid Diamond. But if you already
have one, there may be a fix that can help you.
James.
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jtsiao@netcom.com | two puns is a straight line. | 2 |
3,593 | I have the same problem with a Diamond Stealth VRAM card.
Daniel> .
| 2 |
6,788 |
What CPU does this use? I need the info fro my Thesis. | 2 |
7,163 | 2 | |
6,601 | Posted on behalf of Craig Southeren who does not have access to
a net account:
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Can anyone provide me with a colour space transform that would
emulate the effects of red/green colour blindness? I have had
a quick look in the computer graphics literature with no results.
Perhaps someone who has access to medical information could help?
I would like to write a program (probably a PPM filter) to allow
previewing of images to check for sufficient contract for colour
blind users. Not being colour blind myself, this is a bit difficult!
Please email replies - I will summarise and repost if there is
sufficient interest
Craig
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Chief Engineer, | or fast. Any two."
Picture Start Productions | Arthur C. Clarke
email: c/- geoffw@ucc.su.OZ.AU |
phone: +61 2 959 5550 | "Educate - don't legislate" | 2 |
1,375 |
Think about what you are saying here. The 24 bit image is quantised down to 8
bits so many 'similar' colours are mapped onto a single palette colour. This
colour gets modified in fairly arbitrary ways. You then want to apply these
modifications back to the 24 bit file, so you have to find which colours mapped
to this one palette colour. Ok you could do this by copying the 24 bit file to a
32 bit file and using the extra 8 bits to hold the index entry.
Having done this, you need to do something to them ... what, exactly?
Apply the difference in RGB between the original and modified palette entry to
each colour in the group? This could generate colours with RGB outside the range
0...255. It would also lead to discontinuities when different parts of a smooth
colour gradient mapped to several different palette entries.
You could interpolate from full modification to no modification depending how
far each colour was from the palette entry. However I suspect this would look
rather odd.
So in summary, what I said in my previous posting still holds:
In other words, to edit a 24 bit file you need software built for the job.
Tacking mods onto xv is going to create more problems than it solves.
As to the other bits - you seemed to be claiming that there were bugs in XV. If
that was not what you meant, then:
Yes, I probably did. I found that the collected digest format of your posting
made it a little difficult to understand precisely what your point was. Sorry
if I misunderstood.
Yes again. What *is* (was?) wrong with xv?
--
Chris Lilley
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Technical Author, ITTI Computer Graphics and Visualisation Training Project
Computer Graphics Unit, Manchester Computing Centre, Oxford Road,
Manchester, UK. M13 9PL Internet: C.C.Lilley@mcc.ac.uk
Voice: +44 (0)61 275 6045 Fax: +44 (0)61 275 6040 Janet: C.C.Lilley@uk.ac.mcc | 2 |
3,126 |
Well, this is *only* a guess: If it goes by the "true" meaning of "bit
map", then it holds (x,y,c) where x pixel number in th ex-direction, y:
pixel-number in the y-dir, c: colour. | 2 |
6,453 |
Buy Adobe Streamline. Problem solved.
| 2 |
5,940 |
Try ImageMagick. I cannot test it but one told me it does 24bit.
Anyway, are you SURE your Xserver supports 24bit TrueColor visuals ?
Check with xdpyinfo !
| 2 |
3,463 |
Did I not hear that there maybe some ports of Real3D Version2
in the pipeline somewhere, Possibly Unix. Not too sure though
please put me straight. | 2 |
543 | *** On 04-20-93 21:56, Tim King had the unmitigated gall to say this:
TK> accidentally discovered that if a have a floppy from ONE particular
TK> box of diskettets in the A drive when I boot up, rather than getting
TK> the "Non-system diskette" message, the machine hangs and the CMOS
TK> gets overwritten (luckily, Gateway sends a print of the standard
Just a wild thought here, but how about this: there is a small boot program
on every formatted diskette, whether or not it contains system files. It is
this small program that prints the "Non-System Disk" error, not DOS. If
this program tries to transfer control to a BIOS location that is
nonstandard on the Gateway, then it could clear the BIOS.
I don't think that the BIOS is overwritten, there is usually a small routine
to clear the CMOS area, in case an invalid configuration prevents the
machine from booting. I think that the boot code on the Fuji disks may
inadvertantly call this routine.
Just a thought.
... Don't hit me, Mr. Moderator... I'll go back on topic... I swear!
--- Blue Wave/QWK v2.10
| 2 |
1,881 |
: I was recently talking to a possible employer ( mine! :-) ) and he made a reference to a
: 48-bit graphics computer/image processing system. I seem to remember it being called IMAGE or
: something akin to that. Anyway, he claimed it had 48-bit color + a 12-bit alpha channel. That's
: 60 bits of info--what could that possibly be for? Specifically the 48-bit color? That's 280
: trillion colors, many more than the human eye can resolve. Is this an anti-aliasing thing? Or
: is this just some magic number to make it work better with a certain processor.
I'm pretty sure most industry strength image processing specific
systems (i.e. photo processing gear) use as much as 96 bits of color info.
Why? Why not, oversampling is never a bad idea especially if the
hardware's only task is image manipulation, and profressional photographers
demand professional results.
: Also, to settle a bet with my roommate, what are SGI's flagship products? I know of
: Iris, Indigo, and Crimson, but what are the other ones, and which is their top-of-the-line?
: (sadly, I have access to none of them. Just a DEC 5000/25. Sigh.)
Strange question, but anyway, there's the VGX line, the newer
Indigo^2, and the Onyx systems are the new big boys on the block (you
can get a 24 processor system with twice the graphics performance of
a reality engine). There's more, but I don't have my handy "periodic
table of sgi's" on me...
| 2 |
6,134 |
good but where are these drivers??
anybody at Actix listening? Upload the dang drivers to an ftp site pleeeeeeese?!
cheers,
Kym
_______________________________________________________________________________
Kym A. Burgemeister
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Adelaide
South Australia Ph. +61 8 228 4713
5005 Facs. +61 8 224 0464 | 2 |
1,513 | Will someone who can 'see' the X-Face included in this header please reply
and tell me if it turned out okay?
I'm not all too sure about my viewing software. I *hand*-converted this
thing in "vi" from a Sun rasterfile... what a pain!
For folks who haven't the slightest, it went like this:
-------------------------------------------------------------
How to Make Your Own X-Face:
in 0x000F Easy Steps!
1. Scan my Drivers' License into a *.PCX file.
2. Use WinGIF to 'trim' my face out of the license,
'reduce' it by half, and
convert it to *.BMP.
3. Use Paintbrush to touch up manually.
4. Use WinGIF to 'reduce' it by half again.
5. Use Paintbrush to touch up again.
6. Use WinGIF to 'reduce' it by half *again*
and convert it to *.GIF.
[now over to the UNIX side...]
7. Use Snapshot to convert the *.GIF to a Sun rasterfile.
8. Use IconEdit to touch it up and
convert it to an X bitmap.
9. Use "vi" (yes, a *text* editor) to manually convert
the rasterfile into the "Uncompressed X-Face" format.
(Lots of global "ed" commands, and by the time you're
done you'll mirror hex bytewise in your sleep!!)
[now over to the *Linux* side...]
A. Use "compface" to convert it to what you see here:
%:A<m@Dob}BO"'E",EEQGbn7qy(En7aS5U([k//"G{6^HIbY9X8~+PD($}6szF"&vVxCXSn
8mw^0G#nVHE%W,`X"[j0s{r.~%zs:O|HFU=LwzYgH
B. Try viewing it by whatever means you have available.
C. Go back to step 9, but do it *right* this time. | 2 |
569 |
Actually, for digital HDTV systems that's far higher bandwidth than
you need, unless there's some reason you must work in fully-uncompressed
HDTV. Also, my calculations is that each frame should be well under 6MB,
even using 24 bits/pixel (which is more bits than you actually need - 15 or
18 should be enough for a moving picture). 1600x1100x16bits is 3.5MB (I'm
guessing at HDTV resolution - it may be a bit wider than 1600, I'm fairly
sure of the 1100 number for most of the digital proposals).
I hope you have a very fast memory system as well - 180MB/s while
displaying will require a heavily interleaved VRAM system.
Unless you have a _very_ compelling reason, I'd advise trying to use
at least somewhat compressed data. You don't have to go to full compression
to get to a level where the data IO requirements are much cheaper and easier
to deal with.
--
GNU Emacs is a LISP operating system disguised as a word processor.
- Doug Mohney, in comp.arch | 2 |
4,438 |
Show me the realistic price tag...
Nice, but way over $900....
My point is price/performance not just performance...
| 2 |
2,181 |
The sensitivity is changed using the /S, /V, or /H parameter.
The commands do the following:
/V - vertical sensitivity
/H - horizontal sensitivity
/S - both
Follow the parameter with a number from 1 to 100 (1 - slowest, 100-fastest).
The default is 50. You can type the command "mouse /S75" right from the
keyboard or add it to autoexec.bat. | 2 |
2,212 | I have gotten X11R5 pl 23 to compile on AIX 3.2.2 using cc.
but the server will not run. it simplys starts and a couple seconds
later exits. no error are displayed.
my defines for compile are
-DSYSV -DAIXV3 -DSYSV_WAIT -DMALLOC_0_RETURNS_NULL
could somewhere share some light, or maybe the ibm.cf file.
thanks. | 2 |
6,342 |
Excuse me? Are you one of those people who *enjoy* working w/win? Come talk
to a house-mate of mine and tell him how productive his life is when he
encountered yet another sudden appearence of the DOS-prompt while cutting
and pasting in win! Or an empty win screen without any tasks running (i.e.
^ESC brings up an empty list, progman has done it again.)
Leo | 2 |
4,056 | On a more cheerful note, perhaps hackerism/hacking isn't completely dead.
As someone else said, take the GNU offerings for example - free, redistributable and
often better than the commercial stuff. Take also the number of papers published
every year in all the fields of computer science - the vast majority of these papers
detail original work of real, often exceptional merit - and the authors are sharing
this knowledge. | 2 |
4,018 | O.K, I am not a computer literate, but what can/cannot be done with the
RAM over 16 megs in an ISA machine.
Please e-mail!
Thanks in Advance! | 2 |
1,250 | A few weeks ago I saw an ad in the German magazine c't
about a so-called Videostreamer. This is an interface
between a PC's parallel port and any video-recorder for
backing up your data on a videotape. The company (DataSave?)
claims that it can store up to 7 GB on a 300 minutes tape.
^^^^^^^^^^
It costs DM 250.- (about USD 200, I think)
My question is:
Does anybody use this product, if yes, how many bytes
REALLY fit on a 300 minutes tape (7 GB sounds quite
unbelievable to me).
However, any comments on the interface are appreciated.
Please mail your replies directly to me, I will sum up
if neccesary. Thanks in advance... | 2 |
3,801 | I'm using Norton Cache 5.0, which is really nice but horrible incompatible.
Some games won't work it, my streamer software won't work with it and Windows
doesn't like it at all. But when copying or deleting lots of small files, only
NCACHE is really fast. You see, to write a file the FAT must be changed. But to
write 1000 files the FAT must be changed only once. Is there any cache program
out there which is smart enough to do the same and good enough to run with all my
applications? Any help is really appreciated.
| 2 |
4,979 | hi guys does anyone could tell me
at which resolution can work this monitor
of course it support 640x480 but at 800x600
and 1024x768 with a cirrus card it seems
to don't work any clues? | 2 |
6,448 |
Try to get axe - It's a wonderful X based editor and much simpler to use than
emacs what is a overkill. Of course, emacs is no editor but a religion.
1) Don't call going from an Amiga to a IBM 'upgrade'
2) The Amiga Workbench did the job of a Desktop manager, and there is no
really amazing good X Desktop manager in the Public Domain.
(I'm currently writing one... but it's in very early stage)
3) xdtm may be a medium good replacement.
4) X associates icons with nothing. A number of X Window Managers associate
icons with windows, in a way to ease window management.
But this has nothing to do with icons of a Desktop Manager application.
5) The tool bitmap is there for simple icon drawing.
xv -root -max -quit whatever-image-file
| 2 |
6,440 | : |> : |> None of this changes the fact that MSW3.1 is objectively inferior to its
: |> : |> competition.
: |>
: |> : Do you mean that MSW3.1 is objectively inferior in _some_ respects (which
: |> : is trivially true), that it is objectively inferior in _all_ respecets
: |> : (which is trivially false) or do you mean something else? What criteria
: |> : have you chosen for your objective assesment? Are you sure that these
: |> : criteria are themselves objective?
: |>
: |> I believe that enough is inferior to make it overall as a product
: |> inferior to its competition-- Apple System 7, OS/2 2.0, NeXTStep 3.0,
: |> UNIX/Xwindows (pick your favorite flavor).
: In other words, it is your *opinion* that MSW3.1 is inferior to its
: competition. That's not the same as MSW3.1 being objectively inferior.
No. It is technically inferior to the OS/GUIs that I listed. I have already
described why. To say briefly:
System 7 --easier to learn and use. There have been independent studies to
that effect.
OS/2 --Can run MSW applications and has more stable multitasking.
NeXTSTep --easier to learn, use, and program. More stable multitasking
UNIX/X --As easy to learn and use. More stable multitasking.
With the prpoer setup, all of these will exchange data with MSW machines as
well as MSW machines will amongst themselves, so interoperability is not
an issue.
By this criterion, it is inferior. If you have another, then perhaps I am
incorrect. Do you pick up the glove? | 2 |
5,613 |
If I recall, Jen said right up front how the sample set was derived.
Where's the FUD?
Does this mean I can flame you if I ever see you doing it?
Face it - the .advocacy groups are _for_ the kind of things that
you're preaching against. This is why they were created in the first
place - to filter out all the crap from the newsgroups that might
contain real information.
-Phil | 2 |
6,566 |
Since I don't think Tom always gets time to read this group, I'll take the
liberty of responding to some of this. If you really want Tom to reply
you should send mail to support@qdeck.com.
A 64k line is certainly going to restrict you far more than the 10mbps
ethernet that we typically run. How restrictive it will be depends on
what you run and how you run it. I would think that a couple of instances
of some really nasty program like "Smoking Clover" would make the link
useless for anyone else. On the other hand, probably 50 xclocks quietly
updating every 10 seconds or so wouldn't impact it too much. In the real
world, you will be somewhere in between these two extremes.
Going by the way I personally use X on a daily basis, I wouldn't want to have
to share that 64k link with more than 3-4 other people.
Our corporate WAN is as unique as any other. The usage patterns are not very
good predictors of how yours will behave. The only one of our low bandwidth
links that normally get used in this way is a 56k link to Ireland that they
often use to run a DOS text based client end of a client-server database
remotely from the DVX machine behind me. Since the server end is (or was) always
at this end (California) it is faster to remotely run the client via DESQview
X and have a short hop to the server than running the client locally and having
a long hop to the server. As I warned you, this tells us very little about
how you usage pattern will fill a 64k ISDN link.
Running Word for Windows remotely is going to itself be very usage dependent.
Let's break it into pieces and look at it. Tracking the mouse pointer is easy
and efficient to translate from Windows calls into X. Popping up a menu is a
little more involved and will generate some traffic. Restoring the screen
that was covered by that menu may be easy and may not be. Does the server
that it's displaying on have backing store? If so and the server had enough
memory the display can be updated locally and will generate little network
traffic. If no backing store, then what was being covered up? If it was a
solid colored rectangle of space we can tell your xserver to draw that quite
easily. If it was a full color backdrop of Ren & Stimpy we may have to send
it back to the X server bit by bit. DVX will do its level best to only redraw
that small area, but in some unusual cases the entire screen may need to be
repainted. Assuning a 1024x768 screen with 4 bits per pixel that's 3145728 bits
that has to be sent. Worst possible case you're looking at about 50 seconds.
In reality it would never be this bad since the screen will always have parts
that will be tranlatable into higher level X calls.
X was designed from the ground up to be efficient across a network. It's
pretty good for this. X programs are best, DOS text programs are almost
as good (since we conert them to X easily). Something like WinX is a hybrid.
We intercept the calls Windows makes to it's graphics driver/ mouse driver
keyboard driver and convert them to X. The calls Windows is making are in
no way designed to be efficient on a packet switched network. We go to a
lot of trouble to convert them to the highes level Xlib calls we can, but
we are somewhat limited because we only know what Windows and its applications
tell us. | 2 |
968 |
ICS - Integrated Computer Solutions Incorporated
201 Broadway
Cambridge, MA 02139
Vox: (617) 621-0060
Fax: (617) 621-9555
Email: info@ics.com
Circle 9 on Reader Service Card
| 2 |
2,661 | Does anyone out there know of a site that might have
a 2-D spline fit routine useful for interpolation?
thanks for any help,
Craig Morioka | 2 |
6,743 | I've been able to configure xterm so that I can type in accented characters.
I'm using X11R5, with iso8859 fonts, my shell is tcsh with the following
definitions :
setenv LC_CTYPE iso_8859_1
stty pass8
Then, I add the following in my .Xdefaults file:
XTerm*eightBitInput: True
XTerm*eightBitOutput: True
XTerm*VT100.Translations: #override \
Meta<Key>': keymap(aigu) \n\
Meta<Key>`: keymap(grave) \n\
Meta<Key>^: keymap(circ) \n\
Meta<Key>\\,: keymap(ced)
XTerm*VT100.aiguKeymap.translations: \
~Shift <Key>e: string(0xe9) keymap(None)\n\
<Key>E: string(0xc9) keymap(None) \n\
~Shift <Key>c: string(0xe7) \n\
<Key> C: string(0xc7)
XTerm*VT100.graveKeymap.translations: \
~Shift <Key>e: string(0xe8) keymap(None)\n\
<Key>E: string(0xc8) keymap(None)\n\
~Shift <Key>u: string(0xf9) keymap(None)\n\
<Key>U: string(0xd9) keymap(None)\n\
~Shift <Key>a: string(0xe0) keymap(None)\n\
<Key>A: string(0xc0) keymap(None)
XTerm*VT100.circKeymap.translations: \
~Shift <Key>e: string(0xea) keymap(None)\n\
<Key>E: string(0xca) keymap(None)\n\
~Shift <Key>u: string(0xfb) keymap(None)\n\
<Key>U: string(0xdb) keymap(None)\n\
~Shift <Key>i: string(0xee) keymap(None)\n\
<Key>I: string(0xce) keymap(None)\n\
~Shift <Key>o: string(0xf4) keymap(None)\n\
<Key>O: string(0xd4) keymap(None)
XTerm*VT100.cedKeymap.translations: \
~Shift <Key>c: string(0xe7) keymap(None)\n\
<Key> C: string(0xc7) keymap(None)
This makes the Meta-{',`,^} keys behave as dead keys.
Of course, this only works for xterm. For emacs, my solution is to install the
Lucid version of GnuEmacs 19, and to load the x-compose library.
Hope this helps,
Eric | 2 |
7,262 | Could anybody tell me if exists any program to convert AUTOCAD graphics to
another format (GIF, TIFF, BMP, PCX ...) and where to get it?
Thanks in advance | 2 |
764 | <
<>OW 3.0 is the same. But, the definition of broken is relative. Pageview
<>requires DSC compliant PostScript files, in order to stop at page breaks.
<>I don't consider that broken. I say that any program that puts out a
<>PostScript file that isn't DSC compliant is broken.
<
<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.
It is true that the man page for pageview does not say that the files need
to be DSC compliant. That is the fault of the left hand not knowing what the
right hand is doing at Sun. I was informed by a Sun employee that the pageview
program does require DSC compliant PostScript. There was the possibility that
it was going to be changed so that if the file wasn't DSC compliant that it
would stop at each showpage. I believe that this method would preclude being
able to go backwards and forwards through the file, i.e., you could only go
forward to the next showpage. This isn't in OW3.0 pageview, but maybe it is
in the Solaris 2.x version of OW (OW 3.1?).
In any event, I find pageview extremely useful. Since all of the PostScript
that I produce IS DSC compliant, I don't have any problems. | 2 |
1,870 | Are there any graphics texts with examples/demos/projects directly in
X?
The last time I taught the course, I used a popular graphics text that
uses its own graphics package, with implementations available for
X/Mac/PC. The problem was that after the course the students were good
at programming in the artificial package, but frustrated that they
couldn't really use their skill for other work.
| 2 |
2,897 | Does anybody know about a converter from CGM to PCX or anything else more
common. I've spent some time searching the archives with no luck.
Could you email me your responses.
Thx in advance,
Mike G.
| 2 |
3,013 |
-- --
99 99
Sombody's data is wrong. Since Mac OS, Finder, Systerm
or whatever you want to call it doesn't appear in the first
survey, I tend to doubt their results more. Just because
sombody wrote it doesn't mean its correct.
| 2 |
3,199 | Where can I get documentation about the X-Server-Internals?
BTW, I'm also interested in documentation about TIGA.
Any hints welcome.
Thanks, rainer.
| 2 |
3,930 | I'm looking for a good terminal program that will connect to
TCP/IP using windows. Some basic MS-Window that is connect to
a unix host would be great.
Any suggestions?
Thanks. | 2 |
1,817 | I am happy to announce the first public release of the bit program,
an INTERACTIVE, FULL COLOR image viewer and editor based on SGI GL.
Besides typical touchup tasks, such as crop, rotate, smooth, etc,
bit offers some unique features not available in similar programs,
such as text and vector support and the separation of text and image.
The following is the relevant sections from the man page.
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Pre-Release of May, 1993 BIT(1L)
NAME
bit - Bitmap Image Touchup for SGI Workstations
DESCRIPTION
bit is an interactive full color image viewer and editor based on
Silicon Graphics GL. As a full color program, bit handles images of both
24bits and color index in a natural and efficient manner.
As an image viewer, bit allows list of images to be displayed in their
original type (24bits or color index) in any order and in any of the
many built-in styles of display. You can walk up and down the list using
mouse and keyboard, or you can let bit do the walk for you (The
SlideShow). With the pan and zoom features, large images can be viewed
in full without being limited by the window or screen size.
As an image editor, bit performs a large number of image editing and
processing tasks accurately and efficiently. It keeps information loss
at any stage of the editing process at an absolute minimum by performing
subpixel sampling automatically while conserving the input image type
whenever possible to avoid unnecessary promotion and/or quantization of
input images. You can also cut a piece of an image and paste it into
another. In addition, arbitrarily colored and sized text and simple
geometric figures can be rendered on top of an image for annotation with
the option to make them part of the bitmap or output separately to take
advantage of the higher printer resolutions (e.g. PostScript).
Bit can also be used as a graphical user interface to many existing
image processing programs by defining external bindings which in essence
turn command line oriented programs into bit subfunctions and can be
accessed by a press of a button, and best of all, the processed image
will be read back and displayed immediately. Convolution using exter-
nally defined matrices of arbitrary order can be performed dynamically
giving great flexibility in processing an image.
FEATURES
Bit performs all of its image manipulations interactively with a
continuous progress report, and once the processing is complete,
the processed image will be displayed.
Current features include
o Rotates an image by an arbitrary angle with the option of anti-aliasing
and filling the "rotated out" region with an arbitrary color.
o Scales an image by arbitrary factors in x- and/or y-directions with
the option of subpixel sampling.
o Renders text of arbitrary color, size or orientation on top of an
image with the option of rendering directly into the raster or saving
the text and raster separately, such as into a PostScript file, to
take advantage of a higher printer resolution. Besides normal text
strings, many predefined special symbols can be input conveniently as
in TeX(1), e.g., $\alpha$\small$\beta$ produces Greek alphabet alpha
followed by a slightly smaller Greek alphabet beta.
o Presents graphically the histogram of an image.
o Performs arbitrary 1-to-1 pixel transformation. The transformation
function can be specified interactively and can be of arbitrary
forms. Further, the transformation can be applied to RGB channels
separately or simultaneously and to the entire image or a portion of
it. Many difficult tasks, such as thresholding, can be accomplished
rather easily by 1-to-1 transformation in combination with the avai-
lability of graphical histograms of the image.
o Places simple geometric figures (SGFs), e.g., arrows, circles, trian-
gles etc., of arbitrary color, size and orientation into an image at
arbitrary locations addressed either in absolute pixels or in some
user definable coordinate system units, with the option of rendering
directly into the raster or save the sgfs and raster separately (e.g,
PostScript file). All SGFs can be scaled in x- and y-directions
independently or simultaneously (this is how to get an ellipse from a
circle).
o Performs edge detection. In combination with image histograms and 1-
to-1 transformation, very accurate result can be obtained.
o Performs histogram equalization.
o Performs convolution with externally defined (square) matrices of
arbitrary order.
o Crops a rectangular portion of an image.
o Cuts and pastes across images.
o Magnifies any portion of an image by any amount.
o Displays a list of images in sequence with a user specifiable pause
interval between images. (SlideShow)
o Measures RGB intensities of a pixel at any location or all pixels
along an arbitrary line with the result presented as RGB intensities
or as an intensity vs. distance plot.
o Performs image type conversions.
o Converts image formats.
o Smoothes an image (Special convolution).
o Filters an image by external programs and read the filtered image
back and display it.
o Modify an individual pixel's RGB values.
o Performs FFT on the entire image or a portion of it and display the
resulting power spectra.
o Spray and brush paint in full color (unavailable in this pre-release).
SUPPORTED FORMATS
o IRIS RGB, native to SGI IRIS
o JPEG(JFIF) format
o CompuServ GIF
o PNM(Portable Any Map), including PPM, PGM and PBM.
o XBM (X Window Bitmap)
o TIFF
o PostScript(Write only)
Hardware requirements:
---------------------------------------------------------------
Any SGI workstation that supports RGBmode(), including indigoes.
Where to get it:
---------------------------------------------------------------
anonymous ftp to monte.svec.uh.edu /pub/bit/bitxxx.tar.Z
where xxx is the version number. Current version is 0.73
Read src/01Readme for installation instructions after unpacking
Acknowledgement:
---------------------------------------------------------------
JPEG support is based on the Independent JPEG groups's library Version 4.
FORMS library, developed by Mark Overmars, is used for GUI.
Both JPEG and FORMS library are included in this release.
---------------------------------------------------------------
Bit is the program you will ever need to view and annotate
images; The built-in editing features will satisfy most of
your editing needs. In addition, the external filter and dynamical
kernel will utilize any program you already have. So try it
(and you will like it). | 2 |
1,249 | Depends on the FDC but generally No. The drive at the end after the twist
should be set as Drive 0
Since you're using the 5.25 as drive A: it should be at the end after the
twist with the resistor pack fitted.
Yes
Hope this helps. I had exactly the same problems. Unfortunately when
I changed to different machine the problems started again because
of a different FDC. Seems (don't flame me, this is mainly guess work
from practicle experience) that some FDC's do different things with the
select. | 2 |
4,493 |
Do you mean that MSW3.1 is objectively inferior in _some_ respects (which
is trivially true), that it is objectively inferior in _all_ respecets
(which is trivially false) or do you mean something else? What criteria
have you chosen for your objective assesment? Are you sure that these
criteria are themselves objective?
| 2 |
2,235 |
OK, here's my results so far....
1: You have to define the monitor as LCD - it doesn't really support
Analogue video input (It works, but isn't very linear...)
2: The incoming sync pulses need inverting. This is best achieved
with either a cmos XOR package or a transistor inverter.
If you don't know how to do it, don't even contemplate it.. :-)
3: It'll only work in standard VGA mode.
OK, having said that, I'm trying to either find a circuit or IC
which will act as a universal sync decoder.
I want somethikng which basically only detects the leading sync
pulse edge, and doesn't care about the polarity, outputting
the -ve going pulses that the atari monitor requires.
There are 2 reasons for doing this
1: VGA cards change their sync polarity depending which mode they're
in - herc emulation is +,- while MVGA is +,+ for example.
2: It means I don't have to put a toggle switch on the back of the
monitor in order to be able to run it off both the atari and my
IBM. Currently I have 3 (Yes, 3!) monitors sitting on my desk,
and I want to get that number down as much as possible.
Being able to use the atari monitor as a paper-white VGA
will cut things down to 2. If I forget about Atari colour,
I can get down to 1.
Ultimately, the best course of action is to get a multisync monitor,
but I'm as pressed for cash as anyone else, so it'll have to wait...
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2,296 |
Very well indeed. At home (a VL Bus version of the Graphics Pro) I can stretch
an AVI window to 640x480 and it will continue to play back smoothly. It drops
a few more frames but on most machines even attempting such a thing would mean
one frame update every 30 seconds. An ISA Graphics+ was able to do "Zoom by
2" without any perceptible performance penalty. It is the best performance
I've seen so far with the possible exception of an Intel Indeo board (which
uses overlay so it doesn't have to move the decompressed data over the ISA
bus at any point). | 2 |
4,495 | [re a true 24 bit XV]
Don't mind if I do.
As someone who would _love_ to see XV go to 24 bit, this
would be plenty for me.
a) XV can Load a 24 bit image, and display it in all it's
24 bit glory on 24 bit X displays.
b) All other operations (Crop, Dither, Smooth, etc.) are not
supported on 24 bit images.
how hard would this be?
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7,191 | <
<
<>> I wonder if anybody know of a X-window-based postscript file
<>> viewer that runs under SunOS (prefered), HPUX, or IBM AIX.
<
<>If you are running Sun OpenWindows, you can use "pageview". This is an
<>X Window PostScript previewer like "ghostview", but displays much nicer
<
<Yes, but it's broken on OW 2.0. It does not handle multiple pages
<well. If you don't have the proper PostScript commands it will
<draw the entire document on the same page instead of pausing after
<each page. I haven't tried OW 3.0 yet, though.
OW 3.0 is the same. But, the definition of broken is relative. Pageview
requires DSC compliant PostScript files, in order to stop at page breaks.
I don't consider that broken. I say that any program that puts out a
PostScript file that isn't DSC compliant is broken. | 2 |
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