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Hi all, I wrote a small application which uses pixmaps copied into a window to show some drawings. This works perfectly for all kind of objects expect large fonts. What happens on the screen is that the right half of the font is not shown. The way I create these things is quite simple; some aggregated code: XFillRectangle(Disp, Pixs, AnyColor, 0, 0, Width, Height); XDraw[Line|Rect|String](...); XCopyArea(Disp, Pixs, Win, 0, 0, Width, Height, 0, 0); I am using a RS6K 340 with BOS 3.2. The question is: is this a bug in the AIX X-server (may be some PTFs), or did I do something wrong within my code?? Sorry for the cross-posting, but I really do not know what kind of error it is. Juergen Schietke Research Insitute for Discrete Mathematics University of Bonn Nassestr. 2 5300 Bonn 1 (Germany)
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[stuff deleted about Microsoft] You must of read too many OS/2 advertisements. "Crash Protection" is such a marketing gimick, it isn't funny.. Out of 4 months of using Windows on my new machine I've only had it crash ONCE, and I don't have a "run of the mill" configuration. Microsoft is not a leader in innovation, but they certainly know how to build a better mousetrap. Now, what's wrong with that??
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*** On 04-21-93 04:51, Ikos had the unmitigated gall to say this: Ik> I'm in the market to upgrade my BIOS to a Phoenix 1.10 (got a new hard Ik> disk, discovered my BIOS doesn't have a "type 47") and I would like Ik> know where I can purchase one of these things. Call Phoenix. They can put you on line with replacement BIOS chips. I had to do this when I upgraded a Emerson 386/20 to an IDE drive. Also, if you are installing an IDE drive, and there is a BIOS setting that has a total volume the same as the IDE drive's volume, try using it. The IDE drive can usually respond to a variety of different geometries, as long as the setting that you use is equal to or smaller than the drive's actual size. The controller will do the necessary translation automatically, in most cases. WARNING!!! Do not use a BIOS setting that is even one byte larger than the actual size of the drive! A smaller setting will not harm the drive, but you will be sorry if you go even one byte over. Drive damage will not result, but headaches will! ... Backup not found: (A)bort (R)etry (P)anic --- Blue Wave/QWK v2.10
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Does anyone truely understand the "INVALID NORMAL ARRAY" error 3ds gives you while rendering? It seems to present itself while rendering complicated images. I have circumvented this problem by rendering at the command line, however it would be nice to render inside the editor. Is this a memory problem???
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*Sigh* Don't know what your roomate is doing but it must be something wrong. Are there people who enjoy using Windows? Yes. I'll admit to it. Given a choice between a Mac and Windows I choose Windows every time (to start another flame thread 9-) ) .... --
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Please don't post uuencoded bitmaps here. If you want to do so, put them in the alt.binaries.* areas. These files are very large and may crash some users newsfeeds. It's also a waste of band width. Also, we all know how to convert .gif to .bmp with many programs so it'd really not worth posting all of these .bmp files. - thanks
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Hi: I need some advice (opinions?) regarding which PC would best suit my needs! I want to use this (proposed) beast for basically four things: - Editing documents using WordPerfect 5.1 (under dos) - Creating graphs/analyzing data using Sigmaplot V5.0 (under dos) - Editing/playing with images using Aldus PhotoStyler, running under Windows 3.1 - these images can be large, say 2k x 2k, 24bits/pixel - Using the PC as an Xterminal, running DesqView/X 1.1 and Sun PC-NFS, talking to our network of Sparcstation's - this is where a lot of the images/data come from, and is the most demanding of these tasks. I've read, read, read PC magazines, performed benchmarks, read this newsgroup, and decided that a "nice" system (price/performance) would be: 486DX-50 256k cache, ISA, VLB, 16meg ram ATI Graphics Ultra Pro, 2 meg ram, local bus 15" monitor, 1280x1024 NI 3Com Etherlink III 16bit Maxtor 240MB IDE hard drive However, the parts don't fit! Our local retailer apparently put one of these together, only to discover that the ATI card wouldn't run at 50MHz - surprise surprise. Actually, after reading this group, I'm surprised that they even have a 50MHz local bus running... I have a choice now between basically the above system but with a 486DX2-66 with ISA and VLB, or, a 486DX-50 with EISA and no VLB (and thus the non-local bus version of the ATI card). Which is better, keeping in mind that I'm primarily interested in the last two tasks? Any help would be greatly appreciated! (I need to decide quickly, so any speedy help would be appreciated even more!!) BTW: We have a system now to perform these tasks, it has the following configuration: 486DX-33 64k cache, ISA, 8 meg ram ATI Graphics Ultra+, 2 meg ram 14" monitor, 1024x768 NI SMC Ethercard 8 bit Maxtor 120MB IDE hard drive We're quite happy with the ATI card - very fast, ONCE the data gets to it!! ~Slow~ repainting images under PhotoStyler that have moved off screen, or been uncovered! There doesn't seem to be enough raw cpu when running DesqView/X! Its sluggish running the local window manager. Also, many functions under PhotoStyler take a long time (even when the images fit entirely in ram). There's not enough memory in the system - DesqView/X and a 1 meg SmartDrive don't leave much room for other apps. Photostyler will page to disk with medium size images. I have performed a number of benchmarks on the ethernet transfer rates. This machine sustains only 120k/sec over ethernet while our Sparcs sustain 600k/sec on the same network. Going to the 16 bit version of the SMC card increases transfer rates to 160k/sec - still very slow (especially when moving large images). Is there such a thing as a local-bus ethernet card coming?? Will it make a difference? I'm hoping so, and leaning towards the 486DX2-66 choice (above), for that reason. Also, are there DX2-100's on the horizon? What about DX3-99's? DX3-150's ???! Any information is greatly appreciated.
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Hi, Could some please tell me the errors of my ways. I am trying to update a drawable. This drawable happens to be a Pixmap on a button. The problem is that after I do the : XClearArea(XtDisplay(m_usr[0]),XtWindow(m_usr[0]), 80, 8, 40, 40, True); This appears to work. I then do sprintf(tmp_str,"R=%d",++fun); XDrawString(XtDisplay(m_usr[0]), bmaps[0] ,my_gc, 78, 10, tmp_str, (strlen(tmp_str)) ); The problem is that the new info is drawn but the old info is still there. Even if I pass XClearArea a False and see it clear when it redraws the new info, the old info is still there. Help Please!!! Thanks -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Randy Paries rtparies@turq.b8.ingr.com x6191 cr041 Intergraph, Huntsville Alabama
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I've started getting a message from Windows 3.1 whenever I try to execute a DOS program from Windows, either thru the Program Manager or the File Manager. A message box comes up and says "This program or one of its components is compressed. Use the MS-DOS expand command to expand the file." Now, I know this is bogus, because I can always execute the program from DOS when not running windows. The program in question is COMMAND.COM (yup, the basic DOS command line shell...) And, the expand command tells me that the file is already expanded. All my windows apps work just fine - I only get this message when trying to execute a DOS program from Windows.
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Corel Draw 4 will be able to do this as it will include the Photopaint stuff that the PC version got with version 3. Don't hold your breath though. -- Chris Lilley ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
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This sounds like a good question, the hardware is specific to him, but in general please respond to him via news and not e-mail. There probably are alot of people wanting to read the replies, including myself. mike packard@aplcomm.jhuapl.edu
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I don't think MS has anything to brag about when it comes to following DPMI. But then, consistency is the hobgoblin, etc., I suppose.
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I have the following problem on a Dell 450SE with the ATI Graphics Ultra Pro EISA: When I start Windows, the first 5 times I try to run an application, it does not start. Windows will show the following error message: Error Executing application. There is not enough memory to run the application. After the first 5 tries, the application I want to run will start, and afterwards there are no more problems. When I change the Video driver from Mach 32 to 8514/a, this problem does not occur, so I suspect the ATI drivers (I tried both the build 55 and build 59 driver). Does anyone have a clue?
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Due to the large amount of request for 3dbench of ET4000/W32, I finally can get a 3dbench v1.0 from a ftp site. The 3dbench of ET4000/W32 in my Cardex W32 card with 1MB DRAM has superscape benchmark of 26.3 frames/sec. Hope it will satisfy people curiosity of this ET4000/W32 performance. What other benchmark program result you would want to know? 8-)
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Hi! We have an old Montage FR-1 35mm film recorder. When connected to a PC with its processor card it can directly take HPGL, Targa and Lasergraphics Language files. 24 bit Targa is quite OK for raster images, but conversion from whatever one happens to have can be quite slow. This Lasergraphics Language seems to be (got the source file for one test image) a vector-based language that can handle one million colors. It does some polygons too, and perhaps something else ? The question is, where can I find some information about this language ? A FTP site, a book, a company address,.... ? (OK, it would be nice to have a Windows driver for it, but I'm not THAT optimistic...) Thanks in advance for any help! jussi
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From tolsty Thu Apr 23 21:32:35 1992 To: newsserv@newcom.kiae.su Newsgroups: comp.periphs,comp.graphics.digest,comp.graphics,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.wanted,alt.graphics.pixutils,bit.listserv.omrscan Message-Id: <KAJ3nzfm0W@nsk.uucp.free.msk.su> Organization: NSK RAN From: Andrey V. Shorin <tolsty@nsk.uucp.free.msk.su> Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1992 21:32:35 +0200 Subject: Analysis on text reading utils needed (IBM PC) Distribution: msk Hi! Does anybody know any reliable utils to read english texts with scanner? I want some analysis on quality of recognition, because I want to read texts which I get by fax ( you know -- quality on faxes is rather bad ). The scanner I have is B&W and 300dpi. But if there exist any good software that needs other specifications, that will be OK. Please, send messages to my E-mail or on conference server, I'll summarize them and consider your recomendations. THANK YOU!!! -- Andrey V. Shorin Scientific Council on Complex Problem "Cybernetics", Russian Academy of Sciences
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This may work, but won't it involve invoking the applications, e.g. if you drag a .bmp or .txt file to the min. Print Manager icon, won't it RUN Notepad and Paintbrush before printing? If you just want to drag a file (.txt or .bmp) to a print server icon, with stay at front attributes, you need an intelligent Print Manager drag and drop client like Amish Print 2.0.
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--> A humble response to a letter by Gordon Lang written 04-21-93 22:09. GL> : I am interrested in the extrodinarily simple concept of the null GL> modem : cable. (Actually I have NO idea, so don't count that last GL> statement.) What I'm : asking is what pins does it use (or what are GL> it's specifications?) I just want : to solder one myself instead of GL> buying one. I don't even know what port is : used. You may want to save yourself the trouble and go to Radio Shack. They have a null modem adapter which is a 9 pin connector that swaps the necessary pins to allow two machines to communicate. These are a lot easier than soldering the connections yourself, and usually a bit more reliable. ... P.E.T.A. People for the Eating of Tasty Animals --- Blue Wave/QWK v2.10
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Hijaak claims to convert .dxf to .iff, although Hijaak claims some stuff that I have never gotten to work (for example, not long ago I tried to convert some .iff files from an Amiga video toaster (using CrossDos, so my PC could read the disks) int Targa files. Hijaak made some gorgeous 1.5 megabyte Targa files from the .iffs -- all totally black!
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I am looking for a program to draw various kinds of diagrams on my Linux system. - It must be free. - It must run on standard (monochrome) X with a small screen size (800x600) No motif/openlook etc. - It must compile under Linux with gcc/g++. Most generic unix software works ok. - It must produce postscript files that I can include into LaTeX documents with dvips. Or just tell me another free program that converts one of the supported formats to ps. - It must produce drawings that are larger than the window size (scrollable). I know of several such programs, idraw, xfig. tgif. I have no experience with any of them. Features I would like in the programs are. - ability to draw circles, arcs, straight lines, boxes and arrows. - support for both dashed and solid line styles for all of these objects. - support for texts in any size. - ability to move/copy/resize/rotate any part of the drawing. - ability to turn any part of the drawing into a library component (e.g. a transistor symbol composed of three lines, an arrow and a circle) - any aid (numeric coordinates, screen grid) to align parts of the drawing. - less essential, but in fact very handy: preservation of connection. If I move one part of the drawing, the lines that connect that part to the rest of the drawing, stay connected. Ideally I want the tool so general and flexible that it is comfortable to draw electronic schematics, flow charts, logic diagrams, data flow diagrams and block diagrams with it. I just want to know which of the programs offer which of the features on my whishlist and are there any other programs? How demanding are the programs with respect to disk space, memory and CPU usage? Are any of the programs known to work on Linux with monochrome X?
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Hi. I'm looking for a 3D shark for use in a ray tracing rountine I'm doing. I'll be using Vivid or POV, but it can be in any format. Are there any FTP sites with 3D objects or does anyone have a good 3D shark? Thanks alot! Chad
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Editorial Contact: Single Source Marketing: Myra Manahan (714) 545-1338 Genoa Systems: Joseph Brunoli (408) 432-9090 Neil Roehm (408) 432-9090/Technical Genoa Presents High Performance Video Graphics Accelerator SAN JOSE, Calif USA -- Genoa Systems Corporation announces WINDOWSVGA 24, a True Color 24-bit graphics accelerator card that delivers up to 16.8 million colors at speeds faster than the competition. Plus it offers a full range of resolutions, high refresh rates as well as unique proprietary performance features. The card is available in both 16-bit ISA bus and 32-bit VESA Local bus versions (models 8500 AND 8500VL). With 1MB DRAM on board, the WINDOWSVGA 24 card offers maximum resolution up to 1,280 x 1,024 and supports a refresh rate of 72Hz at 800 x 600 and resolution up to 1,024 x 768 non-interlaced. Both models provide performance many times greater than standard SVGA boards, yet conform to all current video standards. WINDOWSVGA 24 features Genoa's FlickerFree(tm) technology, which eliminates screen flash and flicker to make viewing much more comfortable. the cards also come with Safescan(tm), a utility developed by Genoa to eliminate the black border around the screen and thereby provide 100-percent screen use for overscanning monitors. WINDOWSVGA model 8500VL takes full advantage of the speed offered by the new VESA Local bus technology. Most VL bus cards will only handle data transfers up to 33MHz, but the 8500VL will transfer data at the full speed of the CPU, up to 50MHz. Genoa is also offering this card in the "TurboBahn" combination packaged with their TURBOEXPRESS 486VL motherboard. Built around the Cirrus Logic GD-5426 GUI accelerator, WINDOWSVGA 24 offers the user an exceptional price/performance value. Genoa's advanced proprietary drivers act to "turbocharge" the chip, thereby providing an affordable accelerator card with power and performance that surpass many of the more highly priced chip cards. The Genoa user will enjoy optimal speed and reliability for such programs as Windows, AutoCAD, AutoShade, 3D Studio, OS/2, OrCAD and more. Driver updates and product bulletins are available on Genoa's BBS at (408) 943-1231. Genoa Systems manufactures and markets an extensive line of graphics adapters, motherboards, audio and multimedia cards for IBM-compatible personal computers. All products come with a two year limited warranty on parts and labor. Genoa products are currently distributed worldwide through authorized distributors, resellers, VARs and systems integrators. For more information contact Joe Brunoli, Marketing Manager, Genoa Systems at 75 E. Trimble Road, San Jose, Calif. 95131; Tel: (408) 432-9090 or (800) 934-3662; Fax: (408) 434-0997.
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I've tried compiling it on several SPARCstations with gcc 2.22. After fixing up a few bugs (3 missing constant definitions plus a couple of other things) I got it to compile & link, but after starting client & server I just get a black window; sometimes the client core dumps, sometimes the server, sometimes I get a broken pipe, sometimes it just sits there doing nothing although I occassionally get the cursor to become a cross-hair in dog-fight, but that's it. I've sent word to the author plus what I did to fix it last week, but no reply as yet.
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: Has anyone seen hallusions? You can buy a poster of them and it looks like a simple dot pattern : when you first look at it but if you focus behind it you see a 3d picture. I'm looking for : a program that generates these pictures. There's a company in Texas that makes them but I : doubt if they're giving the program away. Any help would be appreciated. : There is a program included with the book "Virtual Reality Playhouse" which will let you generate these pictures. It's not a very powerful program but it does an acceptable job for experimentation purposes.
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Can anyone around here point me to information regarding STEREOSCOPIC images? I believe I saw some at a show room in Texas (Lone Star Illusions) and they were amazing. I've now heard that they were created with a simple graphic program. Does anyone have any of these images digitized?? I really want to find a out as much as I can..
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[edited] Well for starters, why use rle files? You might have a specific program that needs them, OK, but I tend to convert straight to jpeg format, thus a 2.4meg 24bit targa file becomes a ~80k or less 24bit jpeg. The latest versions of XV (2.2.1 ?) and xloadimage (3.03) both handle jpeg files. And the best way to convert to jpeg is with the c/djpeg suit. Even at 90% quality (you can't see the difference) the jpeg is way smaller than anything else even an 8bit gif! Later'ish Craig
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I've found that I have to add the "-8" option for displaying JPEGs with the new version. For some reason, if I don't, it goes into 24-bit mode and the resulting image is displayed with 216 colors (from a 6x6x6 array) instead of 256 and looks grainier. Since I'm on the ubiquitous 8-bit pseudo color display I would have thought it could tell that.
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Appsoft Image is available for NeXTStep. It is a image processing program similar to Adobe Photoshop. It is reviewed in the April '93 issue of Publish! Magazine.
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es: A couple other problems with the 486DX/50: 1.) System manufacturers had MAJOR problems solving the electromagnetic interference problems with 486DX/50 systems. Getting an FCC-B (home use) certification required additional shielding in the system. 2.) HEAT...a lot of people seem to be installing heat sinks and/or cooling fans on their 486DX2/66 chips. I would guess that the 486DX/50 ran temperatures inside the case even hotter. And heat is the enemy of system reliability. Ed
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I have some brand new copies of the following books for sale. Some are down-rev, don't know which or by how much: look to # of pages, copyright date, etc. for clues. "PostScript Language Reference Manual", Adobe Sys. Inc., Addison-Wesley, copyr. 1986, printed 1990. 299 pages. $22.95. "PostScript Language Tutorial and Cookbook", as above, 243 pages, $16.95 I'll sell the above two books as a set for $15 postage paid w/in US. "OpenLook GUI Functional Specification", Sun Micro, Addison-W, copyr. 1989, 564 pages, $34.95. "OpenLook GUI Application Style Guidelines", 388 pages, $24.95. I'll sell the above two books as a set for $15 ppd. w/in US. O'Reilly & Associates Definitive Guides to the X Window System, copyr. 1990, "for version 11", "revised and updated for Release 4": Vol. 0: "X Protocol Reference Manual," 498 pages $30 Vol. 1: "Xlib Programming Manual," 672 pages $34.95 Vol. 2: "Xlib Reference Manual," 792 pages $34.95 Vol. 7: "XView Programming Manual," 640 pages $30 I'll sell the above four books as a set for $35 ppd. w/in US Due to the high hassle/$ ratio I am asking for pre-payment by check. I'll be queing cashing, packing, and shipping so be prepared to wait 3 weeks for your books to show up. If you'd like to pick them up, I live in San Francisco. Same prices though. E-mail me if you are interested. Thanks!
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For all those people flaming John Bradley, the author of xv - he's on vacation till May 10 (or 15, I don't remember). Maybe we all should slow down and wait to hear his side wrt copyrights, fees, etc.
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Anyone who thinks that TIFF is too complex hasn't dealt with CGM, ASN.1, CDA, DCA, SGML, or any one of a number of other very successful file format. People seem perfectly capable dealing with these others. Dealing with the format of TIFF is frankly less difficult than dealing with the DCT, LZW, and FAX encoding of the image data. The majority of the libraries which deal with TIFF are dedicated to these other issues rather than with simply decoding the tags and parameters. Perhaps people are overwhelmed in comparison with some rather simpleminded formats such as GIF, PCX, and BMP, but to suggest that TIFF is so complex as to be doomed to failure is ludicrous. That doesn't mean that GIF isn't fine, but don't even thing about using it in many instances. GIF is very nice for use in low-end photos applications and for screen grabs and such, but it would never do for high-volume or high-resolution systems. FAX is nice, but it doesn't do color (and GIF doesn't do B&W all that well). JPEG is nice for high-resolution color, but is slow for low-end. The advantage TIFF brings to the table is its ability to handle all these situations (and then some). Naturally it's more complex. But I'ld rather propose TIFF imaging solutions over imaging systems based on having to deal with 3-4 file formats anyday. You may find that TIFF is too complicated for your personal tastes but please don't wrail against it's complexity. The complexity it contains is required to provide the functionality it does and doesn't come close to the complexity found in most commercially viable file formats.
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While the 64K limit may not be _necessary_ limitation, they probably fall within the category of 'reasonable' limitations. If you find yourself trying to allocate an edit control for more than 64K of text, it's probably time take a good look at your program's design. In what way is 8192 a 'small' number? It seems to me that you'd hit the wall in many other ways before you'd hit the systemwide limit on global handles, unless, of course, you're abusing GlobalAlloc. And _please_ don't try to tell me that it's impossible to abuse the resources available under other operating systems. All systems have limits. The question is whether or not the limits are _reasonable_. So far, you haven't offered a single argument which suggests that Windows' limits are any less reasonable than limits in other systems. -- Rick Schaut UUCP:...{uunet | uw-beaver}!microsoft!richs
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[munch] [munch following is reformatted] I'd say that the massive crash problems are exceedingly rare. Windows _itself_ almost never crashes, but it can be crashed by an errant application (My personal favorite? Any one of the Corel 3.0 programs). On the other hand, I have had OS/2 crash randomly a number of times, mostly just running it's own applications. For instance. Today I discovered a new one. While I was downloading with Procomm Plus For Windows (running seamless with the standard VGA drivers on a run-o' da mill VGA card--640x480), I decided that I wanted to edit a copy of a quote that I wanted to add to my .finger. But since I've learned not to really trust seamless, I fired up a full screen WinOS/23.1 session. Whoops, the download finished while WinOS/2 was loading. It had _just_ gotten the pointer up, so I hit alt-escape to get back t the desktop (I have a lot of fonts, so loading takes a good long while). Blam. Screen trashed, Procomm hangs up. Hm. Well, I can sorta see the mouse, so I clicked on the minimized WINOS/2 session and got back my fullscreen Windows session (but the color were off--red and green and yellow and brown instead of blues and greys). So I closed this, and got back to the desktop (now fully restored). PP+ was still sitting, window open, but it was no longer "connected" to the com port--so I exited it (the normal way-- it told me I was still online and it would hang up, though it was _already_ hung up). Hm. Well, load anothe--no, bad idea. Shutdown and reboot. Ok, refresh first.. Now, shutdown. Yes, everything is closed... Hm. Nothing seems to be happening. Let's see.. Ah, the windows list still comes up. OK, let's try shutdown again. No go. Huh. Alright, wait 60 seconds to see if it's just running slow. Hmm. Still seems to be running OS/2. Try shutdown again. Nothing. Oh well. Reboot. Enjoy the checkdisk time. In this case, a part of the OS crashed not only itself, but OS/2 entirely (which isn't even smart enough to tell when it;s been compromised, I guess). In everyday (specifically _today_) use. That's the idea, anyway. In truth, when a program crashes on OS/2, it will bring the system down with it. The programs that would just GPF under Windows do the same under OS/2, but programs that are fine under DOS and Windows bring OS/2 screaming to a halt, task protection or no. For instance, I'm still wondering why print preview in a windowed WP 5.1 (DOS) locks up my system. It works fine under DOS or even in a dos box under Windows 3.1. (Admittedly, it doesn't crash if I run WP51 full screen, but the first time this bug big me, it bit hard). Please explain. The only time I wait on anything under Windows is when I'm copying or formatting a floppy, or when printing (and even then, not long--I get 9 to 11 pages dumped to the printman per minute, and can _still_ go do things--slowly--while it's doing this--I've downloaded with PP+ @9600 while printing). Not sure what you mean here. OS/2 sees 16 megs, uses 5 or six of these for it's own use (more if you want to count WinOS/2). Windows sees 16 megs, uses 3 or 4 (more like 5 if you count the disk cache as I am for OS/2) for itself. If memory efficiency were a big issue, PC GEOS would be the current king of the Intel desktop. On the other hand.. I am finally able to say with some confidence that both OS/2 and Windows have a bit of hardware sensitivity to them. For instance, the machine I am sitting at runs both fine, while the machine next to me constantly locks up under Windows. (But ran OS/2 without a hitch once I got it through a 5-crash install). On the whole, I'd say OS/2 is a whole lot more sensitive than Windows, but there are (I suppose) machines that Windows just doesn't like. Wasn't this _Ferris_ Bueller?
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On a few computers which we have here at Sheridan College there are files which we would like to make read only. I have used the Dos attrib command but some people, who carry around the attrib program in their pockets, have still been able to erase some of the more important files. Are there any software packages which would make an entire drive read-only? An example, partition the drive into two partitions and have the first drive contain the important files which can be only read and the second drive you could both read and write. Any and all enquiries or help would be appreciated.
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It could also be that your shell is hogging the resources. For example, open the apps with data files that cause resulting low system resources with ndw 2.x as shell, then do the same with program manager, and see if it's the shell or the apps.
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Take a look at WinQVT/net -- the latest version is QVT/net 3.4 It comes in versions that are direct to packet driver, as well as a PC NFS version. It is priced quite low; registration = $40, student registration = $20, and is a nice package -- comes complete with VT220 terminal emulation, FTP, POP3 client, LPR, and NNTP client. You can FTP it from "biochemistry.bioc.cwru.edu" /pub/qvtnet/qvtnet34.zip It was also uploaded to ftp.cica.indiana.edu recently. Ashok
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Hello, I'am almost ashame to ask this question. It really looks like a FAQ, but couldn't find the answer. Anyway... The original IBM-PC/XT 83 or 84 key keyboard is, in my opinion, still the best keyboard around. Function keys on the right place (eh.. left place), firm click, etc. Is there any chance to connect one of these to a modern 386 AT clone? I do understand that the new AT keyboard has more functionality. I.e. the typematic repeat rate is programmable etc. It seams to me that the pins & electrical specs. of the old and the new keyboard are, however, the same. Maybe the communication protocol is different? Please answer by e-mail. Also if you can tell me that is absolutely impossible. In that case, i will bring the keyboard the museum of obsolete technology. Thanks, Duco --
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HELLO, I HAVE SOME PROBLEMS WITH MY DIAMOND STEALTH LOCAL BUS GRAPHIC CARD. WHEN I TRY TO START WINDOWS MY SYSTEM STOP AND DISPLAY: "NO FREE FILES HANDLES,CANNOT LOAD COMMAND,SYSTEM HALTED" IT'S PERHAPS A BIOS SETUP PROBLEM BUT I'M NOT USED TO MY AMI-BIOS SETUP IF SOMEBODY CAN EXPLAIN ME;HOW TO SETUP SHADOW VIDEO ROM, OTHERS SHADOW ROM ,AND ALSO HOW TO CONFIG THE TWO "ADVENCED ... SETUP" FOR A BEST UTILISATION OF MY GRAPHIC CARD. THANKS FOR ANY ANSWER. CH.ROBERT
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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) 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,
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Hi people!: I'm looking for X Servers for DOS or Windows. I've already seen Desqview/X and XVision but I'd like to be aware of other choices. Is there anything on the public domain or shareware ? And in the commercial area is there anything with aggressive pricing ? What about incompatibilities ? Window managers ? Any info is welcome. Thanx in advance. C U! By(e)
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It's called PC-XWare. It is based on NCD-Ware, their X-terminal software (which , IMHO, is excellent). PC-XWare will include X-Remote and be optimized for 32 bit machines. It's X11R5 based. It will support remote management, etc. Not an NCD employee, just a fan :) -- --------------------------------- Edward J. Gallant III 37213 Georgia Tech Station Atlanta, Georgia 30332
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This is a heavily edited/modified version of the Gopher FAQ intended to give people just starting with gopher enough information to get a client and jump into Gopher-space - a complete version can be obtained as described below. Once you have a gopher client point it at merlot.welch.jhu.edu and welcome to gopher-space! Dan Jacobson danj@welchgate.welch.jhu.edu ----- Common Questions and Answers about the Internet Gopher, a client/server protocol for making a world wide information service, with many implementations. Posted to comp.infosystems.gopher, comp.answers, and news.answers every two weeks. The most recent version of this FAQ can be gotten through gopher, or via anonymous ftp: rtfm.mit.edu:/pub/usenet/news.answers/gopher-faq Those without FTP access should send e-mail to mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu with "send usenet/news.answers/finding-sources" in the body to find out how to do FTP by e-mail. ------------------------------------------------------------------- List of questions in the Gopher FAQ: Q0: What is Gopher? Q1: Where can I get Gopher software? Q2: What do I need to access Gopher? Q3: Where are there publicly available logins for Gopher? Q4: Who Develops Gopher Software? Q5: What is the relationship between Gopher and (WAIS, WWW, ftp)? Q6: Are papers or articles describing Gopher available? Q7: What is veronica? Q8: What is Available for Biology? ------------------------------------------------------------------- Q0: What is Gopher? A0: The Internet Gopher client/server provides a distributed information delivery system around which a world/campus-wide information system (CWIS) can readily be constructed. While providing a delivery vehicle for local information, Gopher facilitates access to other Gopher and information servers throughout the world. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Q1: Where can I get Gopher software? A1: via anonymous ftp to boombox.micro.umn.edu. Look in the directory /pub/gopher -------------------------------------------------------------------- Q2: What do I need to access Gopher? A2: You will need a gopher "client" program that runs on your local PC or workstation There are clients for the following systems. The directory following the name is the location of the client on the anonymous ftp site boombox.micro.umn.edu (134.84.132.2) in the directory /pub/gopher. Unix Curses & Emacs : /pub/gopher/Unix/gopher1.12.tar.Z Xwindows (athena) : /pub/gopher/Unix/xgopher1.2.tar.Z Xwindows (Motif) : /pub/gopher/Unix/moog Xwindows (Xview) : /pub/gopher/Unix/xvgopher Macintosh Hypercard : /pub/gopher/Macintosh-TurboGopher/old-versions * Macintosh Application : /pub/gopher/Macintosh-TurboGopher * DOS w/Clarkson Driver : /pub/gopher/PC_client/ NeXTstep : /pub/gopher/NeXT/ VM/CMS : /pub/gopher/Rice_CMS/ or /pub/gopher/VieGOPHER/ VMS : /pub/gopher/VMS/ OS/2 2.0 : /pub/gopher/os2/ MVS/XA : /pub/gopher/mvs/ Many other clients and servers have been developed by others, the following is an attempt at a comprehensive list. A Microsoft Windows Winsock client "The Gopher Book" sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/micro/pc-stuff/ms-windows/winsock/goph_tbk.zip A Macintosh Application, "MacGopher". ftp.cc.utah.edu:/pub/gopher/Macintosh * Another Macintosh application, "GopherApp". ftp.bio.indiana.edu:/util/gopher/gopherapp * A port of the UNIX curses client for DOS with PC/TCP oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu:/public/dos/misc/dosgopher.exe A port of the UNIX curses client for PC-NFS bcm.tmc.edu:/nfs/gopher.exe A beta version of the PC Gopher client for Novell's LAN Workplace for DOS lennon.itn.med.umich.edu:/dos/gopher A VMS DECwindows client for use with Wollongong or UCX job.acs.ohio-state.edu:XGOPHER_CLIENT.SHARE * Note: these Macintosh clients require MacTCP. Most of the above clients can also be fetched via a gopher client itself. Put the following on a gopher server: Type=1 Host=boombox.micro.umn.edu Port=70 Path= Name=Gopher Software Distribution. Or point your gopher client at boombox.micro.umn.edu, port 70 and look in the gopher directory. There are also a number of public telnet login sites available. The University of Minnesota operates one on the machine "consultant.micro.umn.edu" (134.84.132.4) See Q3 for more information about this. It is recommended that you run the client software instead of logging into the public telnet login sites. A client uses the custom features of the local machine (mouse, scroll bars, etc.) A local client is also faster. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Q3: Where are there publicly available logins (ie places to telnet to in order to get a taste of gopher) for Gopher? A3: Here is a short list, use the site closest to you to minimize network lag. Telnet Public Logins: Hostname IP# Login Area ------------------------- --------------- ------ ------------- consultant.micro.umn.edu 134.84.132.4 gopher North America gopher.uiuc.edu 128.174.33.160 gopher North America panda.uiowa.edu 128.255.40.201 panda North America gopher.sunet.se 192.36.125.2 gopher Europe info.anu.edu.au 150.203.84.20 info Australia gopher.chalmers.se 129.16.221.40 gopher Sweden tolten.puc.cl 146.155.1.16 gopher South America ecnet.ec 157.100.45.2 gopher Ecuador gan.ncc.go.jp 160.190.10.1 gopher Japan It is recommended that you run the client software instead of logging into the public login sites. A client uses the custom features of the local machine (mouse, scroll bars, etc.) and gives faster response. Furthermore many of the basic features of clients - saving a file to your hard drive, printing a file to a local printer, viewing images, retrieving files from ftp sites etc.... are not available by the telnet logins. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Q4: Who Develops Gopher Software? A4: Gopher was originally developed in April 1991 by the University of Minnesota Microcomputer, Workstation, Networks Center to help our campus find answers to their computer questions. It has since grown into a full-fledged World Wide Information System used by a large number of sites in the world. Many people have contributed to the project, too numerous to count. The people behind the much of the gopher software can be reached via e-mail at gopher@boombox.micro.umn.edu, or via paper mail: Internet Gopher Developers 100 Union St. SE #190 Minneapolis, MN 55455 USA Or via FAX at: +1 (612) 625-6817 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Q5: What is the relationship between Gopher and (WAIS, WWW, ftp)? A5: Gopher is intimately intertwined with these two other systems. As shipped the Unix gopher server has the capability to: - Search local WAIS indices. - Query remote WAIS servers and funnel the results to gopher clients. - Query remote ftp sites and funnel the results to gopher clients. - Be queried by WWW (World Wide Web) clients (either using built in gopher querying or using native http querying. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Q6: Are papers or articles describing Gopher available? A6: Gopher has a whole chapter devoted to it in : _The_Whole_Internet_, Ed Kroll, O'Reilly, 1992 (Editors note: ..Great book, go out and buy a bunch!) _The_Internet_Passport: NorthWestNet's Guide to Our World Online" By Jonathan Kochmer and NorthWestNet. Published by NorthWestNet, Bellevue, WA. 1993. 516 pp. ISBN 0-9635281-0-6. Contact info: passport@nwnet.net, or (206) 562-3000 _A_Students_Guide_to_UNIX by Harley Hahn. (publisher McGraw Hill, Inc.; 1993 ISBN 0-07-025511-3) Other references include: _The_Internet_Gopher_, "ConneXions", July 1992, Interop. _Exploring_Internet_GopherSpace_ "The Internet Society News", v1n2 1992, (You can subscribe to the Internet Society News by sending e-mail to isoc@nri.reston.va.us) _The_Internet_Gopher_Protocol_, Proceedings of the Twenty-Third IETF, CNRI, Section 5.3 _Internet_Gopher_, Proceedings of Canadian Networking '92 _The_Internet_Gopher_, INTERNET: Getting Started, SRI International, Section 10.5.5 _Tools_help_Internet_users_discover_on-line_treasures, Computerworld, July 20, 1992 _TCP/IP_Network_Administration_, O'Reilly. Balakrishan, B. (Oct 1992) "SPIGopher: Making SPIRES databases accessible through the Gopher protocol". SPIRES Fall '92 Workshop, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Tomer, C. Information Technology Standards for Libraries, _Journal of the American Society for Information Science_, 43(8):566-570, Sept 1992. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Q7: What is veronica? A7: veronica: Very Easy Rodent-Oriented Net-wide Index to Computerized Archives. veronica offers a keyword search of most gopher-server menu titles in the entire gopher web. As archie is to ftp archives, veronica is to gopherspace. A veronica search produces a menu of gopher items, each of which is a direct pointer to a gopher data source. Because veronica is accessed through a gopher client, it is easy to use, and gives access to all types of data supported by the gopher protocol. To try veronica, select it from the "Other Gophers" menu on Minnesota's gopher server, or point your gopher at: Name=veronica (search menu items in most of GopherSpace) Type=1 Port=70 Path=1/veronica Host=futique.scs.unr.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Q8: What is Available for Biology? A8: There is an incredible amount of software, data and information availble to biologists now by gopher. Here is a brief list of the Biological Databases that you can search via gopher: 2. BDT Tropical Data Base Searches/ 3. Biotechnet Buyers Guide - Online Catalogues for Biology <TEL> 4. Search Protein Data Bank Headers <?> 5. Chlamydomonas Genetics Center / 6. Crystallization database/ 7. HGMP Databases - Probes and Primers / 8. Museum of Paleontology TYPE Specimen Index <?> 9. MycDB - Mycobacterium DataBase <?> 10. Search (Drosophila) Flybase (Indiana)/ 11. Search (GenBank + SWISS-PROT + PIR + PDB) <?> 12. Search AAtDB - An Arabidopsis thaliana Database <?> 13. Search ACEDB - A Caenorhabditis elegans Database <?> 14. Search CompoundKB - A Metabolic Compound Database <?> 15. Search Databases at Welchlab (Vectors, Promoters, NRL-3D, EST, OMI../ 16. Search EMBL <?> 17. Search GenBank <?> 18. Search Genbank - 2 <?> 19. Search Genbank Updates <?> 20. Search LiMB <?> 21. Search PIR <?> 22. Search PIR (keyword,species...) <?> 23. Search PROSITE <?> 24. Search Rebase - Restriction Enzyme Database <?> 25. Search SWISS-PROT <?> 26. Search TFD <?> 27. Search the C. elegans Strain List <?> 28. Search the DNA Database of Japan <?> 29. Search the EC Enzyme Database <?> 30. Search the GrainGenes database <?> 31. Search the Maize Database / 32. Cloning Vectors: plasmids, phage, etc. <?> 33. EPD - Eukaryotic Promoter Database <?> 34. EST - Expressed Sequence Tag Database - Human <?> 35. wEST - Expressed Sequence Tag Database - C. elegans <?> 36. Kabat Database of Proteins of Immunological Interest <?> 37. NRL_3D Protein Sequence-Structure Database <?> 38. OMIM - Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man <?> 39. Seqanalref - Sequence Analysis Bibliographic Reference Data Ban.. <?> 40. Search Rebase - Restriction Enzyme Database <?> 41. Search the EC Enzyme Database <?> 42. Search The Rodent Section of Genbank <?> 43. Database Taxonomy (Genbank, Swiss-Prot ...)/ 44. Retrieve Full PDB Entries by Accession Number <?> 45. Search for All Researchers funded by NIH <?> 46. Search for Genome Researchers funded by DOE <?> 47. Search for Researchers funded by NSF <?> 48. Search for Researchers funded by the USDA <?> 49. E-mail Addresses of Crystallographers/ 50. E-mail Addresses of Yeast Reasearchers/ 51. Phonebooks Around the World/ 52. Search and Retrieve Software for All Computers/ 53. Search and Retrieve Macintosh Software/ 54. Search and Retrieve DOS Software/ 55. Search and Retrieve GNU Software/ 56. Search and Retrieve Software for Biology/ 57. Search for Agricultural Software/ 58. Search and Retrieve Graphics Software and Data/ 59. Search and Retrieve all Online Perl Scripts/ 60. FTP Sites For Biology (56 archives for software and data)/
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I got a ET4000/W32 card which is made by Cardex yesterday and ran a winmark test on it. The card is a VL-BUS card which can display 16.7 million colours in 640x480 mode with 1MB DRAM. It comes with ET4000/W32 window drivers and a normal Et4000 drivers. The ET4000/W32 drivers handles, 640x480, 800x600, 1024x786 in 256 colours. Also, in 640x480 and 800x600, it supports hicolor, 32K and 64K colours. Here is my winmark result running on a 16MB 486DX33 EISA/VL-BUS system using Hint chipsets. Winmark 3.11 from ZD lab. Using ET4000/W32 drivers 640x480 256 10.63 megapixel/sec. 32k 7.34 64k 7.30 800x600 256 10.07 32k 6.38 64k 6.35 1kx786 256 8.17 Using ET4000 drivers. 640x480 16M 1.78 800x600 16colours 4.01 1kx786 16 4.22 From the result, the ET4000/W32 drivers are specialized to use the hardware feature of the Et4000/W32 chip whereas the ET4000 drivers are just normal driver for ET4000 based graphics card. The price of this graphics card that I got is $185 from a local dealer. It may be less from mail order. It has OS/2 2.0 drivers comes with it which supports 256 colors on all resolution. From these results, it has double the performance of a Et4000AX based card in 256 colours mode.
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I don't see this as a problem with the chip-set (a mistake), I see this as something that was designed-in intentionally. So it would seem that to enhance the design (from 24 to 32-bit EISA DMA) would require an update to the chipset. An update to the chipset may begat an update to the motherboard board design. What I'm saing is: The motherboard manufacturer seems to be passing this off as a simple fix. In my mind the fix is a updated chipset from HINT along with a possible motherboard layout update. This is not simple. If I were you I would be cautious about this. You might look into the Advanced Integration Research (AIR) VL/EISA motherboard. All slots are EISA/ISA capable. 2 (or 3) of the slots are VL-bus capable. The AIR people confirmed this board supports 'real' 32-bit EISA DMA (I called them). Pentium/P5 (?) capable. Less expensive than equivalent AMI or Micronics VL/EISA board. Look in Computer Shopper (April '93). The ZENON ads show the AIR mother- board. A associate bought the AIR board and is pleased with it. I'm attempting to get the local dealer to trade out the HAWK board for the AIR board. Model number of AIR board (with 486-33DX) is B433EI2. You can call Motherboard Warehouse (for example) for a price. Phone #'s included below. AIR (408)-428-0800 Motherboard Warehouse (800)-486-9975
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Has anyone tried this HP LaserJet FAX. It receives faxes and prints them on your HP III. Also, from your word processor, you can print straight to the fax.
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You allways could port and use emu from export.lcs.mit.edu:contrib/emu.tar.Z. We've implemented a blinking text cursor for the very reasons people mentioned. You can even configure the actual size of the text cursor (horizontal / ver- tical line cursors, smaller block cursors), turn on and off blinking, set the blink rate and so on. You even get blinking text - ok, enough advertising. I haven't looked at the xterm code in this respect, but from the memories I have when we had to decide whether to start with xterm and make it do what we wanted (mostly the blinking text), I'd say it won't be easy, since xterm is a hairy mess (understandable if you follow it's roots back to X10). The actual task to get the cursor to blink isn't that difficult if you provide the right hooks. As Antonio mentioned, you'll have to show the cursor directly after it has moved, or people will become confused. Since it's a good idea to take the cursor off the screen when you do anything on screen anyways, this isn't very complicated. You'll just have to start the blink process with the cursor showing directly after it's mapped. As for the portability of emu and it's newest version. The one on export is still the same as on the R5 contrib tape. We wanted to get out a new release for over six months now, but unfortunately we're drowning in work. But since the changes aren't affectiong emu's behavior much, I'd say whoever wants to try emu shouldn't wait for a new version. As is, emu won't work on BSD derived systems (e.g. SUNs) with anything else than a csh. There is a fix to this, which is very short (remove one line of code). I'll put this on export today. Michael
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X/Motif Gurus, How do you handling scaling of X text while performing zooming operations on figures? Is restricting user to select scalable fonts too restrictive and a absolute NO NO? Any books that have discussion on this topic? Should have really taken more of those Computer Graphics courses but, now its too late -:( ) I will summarize response. Thanks in advance.
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I'm trying to compile xftp which uses the Xw widget set and I'm having problems. We're using Motif and X11R5 and it seems that my version of the Xw stuff was only ported to R3. Are there patches out to port this to R5 (or a newer port altogether)?? Or perhaps a newer port of xftp for use with R5?? Thanks in advance.
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Hi, is there any script/program/thelike already existing which could transform the output of x11perfcomp (a huge table) into a nice 3d'ish diagram or graph by producing postscript output from x11perfcomp input ? Maybe someone has already written such beast ...
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After reading many postings concerning hard drives I'm still unclear about one thing. These new "cached hard drives" - is the cache on the drive itself or is it separate, like on the controller or something? Thanks to anyone who can clear this up. --
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The IRQ and interface-select jumpers are pretty straightforward, but I don't grok the settings of W10-W18 (also labelled A15 through A18). Could somebody tell me which settings of these four jumpers correspond to what I/O addresses? The U-B PCNIC (also OEMed by IBM for a while) is the only Ethernet card I know of that doesn't use I/O addresses. It only has interrupts and shared memory. The jumpers you see control bits 15-18 in the base address of the shared memory. I can't recall which is 1 and which 0, but that's easy to determine with DEBUG.
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Since loading Windows, two of my DOS applications have been acting strangely. It appears that font changes and page orientation changes (so far) are not being recognized in WordPerfect/DOS and QuattroPro/DOS. Another DOS application does accept font and page orientation changes, so I don't think the problem is with the printer. I reloaded QuattroPro, and these changes are still not accepted whether launching from Windows or the DOS prompt. Does anyone have any suggestions as to where to look or how to correct this problem? I've ordered QuattroPro for Windows, but need a landscape application printed immediately. Please e-mail. Thanks in advance!
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This is pure bull. I've had the 24 bit mode (640x480 and 800x600) working since the version before 59 (??55??). Bld 59 added the 24 bit option to Flexpanel. Try getting the drivers from ftp.cica.indiana.edu or wuarchive. Mine is: Gateway 486 DX2/50 LB 8 Megs ram IDE HD ATI GUP w/ 2MB (installed upgrade myself) BLD 59 drivers.
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Doesn't MS do the same? (I.e., subsidize app development) I seem to remember someone at RPI who received an entire (expensive, to run NT) machine to develop for NT. Free. And that's just the small fry...
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We all had that problem, you need to expand the fonts manually, the program "decomp" is on disk 1 & the equations fonts are on disk 3 Have fun
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I don't know the specifics of the compression algorithm, but I've used the shareware program, PaintShop, to convert between the two. You can download it from ftp.cica.indiana.edu, but I don't know what the file is called or what directory it is in (you can start by looking in pub/pc/win3 or try scanning the index files). To convert a .BMP file to a .RLE file, you just load the .BMP file and do a "Save as..." Select "Windows bitmap" and "Compressed" (or is it "RLE"?) Whatever it is, it's fairly intuitive... Sorry I don't have all the details, but I'm currently on an IBM3151 dumb terminal and can't do much researching...Good luck!
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Has anyone else observed this behaviour and if so, what have you done to cure it? One workstation in a WfW network goes deaf to any form of communication from other workstations until it goes out on the network itself. From then on other workstatons can interact with it until some time later when it goes deaf again.
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I'm told that I can replace the colorful windows logo that appears as windows invokes with a graphic of my choosing. The challange is that the image must be in 'RLE' format. I've got GIF's, PIC's, JPG's, TIF's, etc... everything but RLE's! What's the best route to converting these things? What program should I download, and from where? Has anybody else done this, and do you have the steps available?
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Hello All! It is my understanding that all True-Type fonts in Windows are loaded in prior to starting Windows - this makes getting into Windows quite slow if you have hundreds of them as I do. First off, am I correct in this thinking - secondly, if that is the case - can you get Windows to ignore them on boot and maybe make something like a PIF file to load them only when you enter the applications that need fonts? Any ideas? Chris
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A friend and I have ATI Graphic Ultra display adaptors, and they have been reasonably good performers, but we both have had irritating compatibility problems with the ATI drivers and are ready to change to something faster and more compatible with windows. I have heard rumblings that the new Orchid 9000 card is very fast. Anyone have experience with this card? What is currently available that is fast, compatible, does 1280x1024x256 non- interlaced and cost under $500? Ken Keirnan --
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The April 13 issue of PC Magazine published benchmarks for the ATI UltraPro running on both VLB and EISA: 800x600,16 800x600,256 1024x768,16 1024x768,256
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I bought a 386DX-40 motherboard for 50$... no documentation at all. Everything appears to work, except I'm having trouble getting a few of the LED connectors working. I've looked at the manuals for 4 other motherboards, but the pin configuration doesn't look anything like what is on this board. Does this pin arrangement look familiar to anyone out there??? Any hints on where I can find this information? 1 10 "speaker" . . . . . . . . . . "keylock" . . . . . . . . . . 11 ^ 20 J23 | |The board came with a jumper vertically across these two pins. I can get the power/keylock to work across pins 11-15, reset across pins 9 and 19, but would prefer not to blow something up by further experimentation. The date on the board itself is 6/92, opti chips. I would really appreciate any help, and thank you in advance.
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Article #61214 (61317 is last): From: arnolm2@aix.rpi.edu (Matthew Richard Arnold) Subject: DX50 vs DX266 Date: Wed Apr 21 19:55:12 1993 Would someone be willing to explain to me the 486DX 50MHz is not more popular than it is? I would think it would be just as fast, if not faster than the 486DX 66MHz for certian applications. Plus, a 50MHz motherboard would seem better if you had any plans on upgrading the chip in the future. I must be missing something, since everyone is buying the DX2 66... Many adds don't even mention the DX 50. Thanks a lot, -Matt End of File, Press RETURN to quit Yes its realy simple, no one makes a mother board that runs the bus at more than 33MHZ....Sam
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Xsun won't come up in color w/ this framebuffer! I am trying to use xkernel on some of these 4/110s I have a freshly built Statically linkes copy of Xsun that works just fine on cg6, cg4, bw2 type of framebuffers, but on the 4/110 that have this type of frame buffer all I get is Mono. cgtwo0 at vme24d16 0x400000 vec 0xa8 cgtwo0: Sun-3 color board, fast read Here is what I've tried. removing all the other /dev/cg* , /dev/bw , and /dev/fb and then selectivly recreating /dev/cgtwo0. Xsun comes up mono. recreating /dev/fb, comes up mono, I've tried Xsun & Xsun -dev /dev/cgtwo0. PS Xnews will come up in color but it's not statically linked, and the dynamically linked Xsun comes up in mono also. PPS Xsun was compiled on w/ gcc 2.3.3 on a system running 4.1.3 and the 4/110 is also running 4.1.3. Thanks n advance -- - .. the HIGHWAY is made out of LIME JELLO and my HONDA is a barbequeued OYSTER! Yum!
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I'm interested in building my own PC. Can anyone recommend a (UK available) book on the subject, and/or sources for parts? Alternatively, can anyone recommend a source for a 486DX (33MHz) PC (again UK available). I've just seen in Computer Weekly that the March '93 price for these has fallen to sterling 1092 (including os, monitor, keyboard, delivery and VAT), but I can't find a single advert that would give me a system at that price.
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Does any one out there have experience with Planet X, I am considering buying it to use on a SPARCstation IPC, in this way I can run Mac programs from the SPARC. Would you recommend buying this piece of Software and what is the emulation on the SPARC like? Does it give a window of a Mac or does it give a window of just the individual programs? Any information would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Dean
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And here is the first patch :-) The following fixes some problems with the Imakefile files and makes it possible to compile xv-3.00 under Solaris without having to use the ucb stuff: *** 1.1 1993/04/28 06:05:03 --- Imakefile 1993/04/28 08:20:35 *************** *** 209,215 **** OBJS4= xcmap.o PROGRAMS= xv bggen vdcomp xcmap ! #if defined(HaveJpeg) || defined(HaveTiff) # ifdef HaveJpeg --- 209,218 ---- OBJS4= xcmap.o PROGRAMS= xv bggen vdcomp xcmap ! all:: ! @echo "" ! @echo " Did you remember to 'make depend' first?" ! @echo "" #if defined(HaveJpeg) || defined(HaveTiff) # ifdef HaveJpeg *************** *** 222,238 **** SUBDIRS = tiff # endif # define PassCDebugFlags MakeSubdirs($(SUBDIRS)) - DependSubdirs($(DUBDIRS)) #endif all:: - @echo "" - @echo " Did you remember to 'make depend' first?" - @echo "" - - all:: @echo " building xv ..." @echo "" --- 225,236 ---- SUBDIRS = tiff # endif # define PassCDebugFlags + # define IHaveSubdirs MakeSubdirs($(SUBDIRS)) #endif all:: @echo " building xv ..." @echo "" *************** *** 259,267 **** SRCS = $(SRCS1) $(SRCS2) $(SRCS3) $(SRCS4) - DependTarget() AllTarget($(PROGRAMS)) NormalProgramTarget(xv,$(OBJS1),$(DEPLIBS),$(LOCAL_LIBRARIES),) NormalProgramTarget(bggen,$(OBJS2),$(DEPLIBS),$(LOCAL_LIBRARIES),) --- 257,269 ---- SRCS = $(SRCS1) $(SRCS2) $(SRCS3) $(SRCS4) + AllTarget($(PROGRAMS)) + DependTarget() + #ifdef IHaveSubdirs + DependSubdirs($(SUBDIRS)) + #endif NormalProgramTarget(xv,$(OBJS1),$(DEPLIBS),$(LOCAL_LIBRARIES),) NormalProgramTarget(bggen,$(OBJS2),$(DEPLIBS),$(LOCAL_LIBRARIES),) *** 1.1 1993/04/28 08:33:13 --- xv.h 1993/04/28 08:19:31 *************** *** 284,292 **** --- 284,298 ---- /* signal macros */ + #if defined(sun) && defined(SYSV) + #define HOLD_SIG sighold(SIGALRM) + #define RELEASE_SIG sigrelse(0) + #define PAUSE_SIG sigpause(0) + #else #define HOLD_SIG sigblock(sigmask(SIGALRM)) #define RELEASE_SIG sigblock(0) #define PAUSE_SIG sigpause(0) + #endif /* default for most folks */ *************** *** 318,323 **** --- 324,333 ---- #define random rand #define srandom srand #endif + #if defined(sun) && defined(SYSV) + #define random() rand() + #define srandom(x) srand(x) + #endif *** 1.1 1993/04/28 06:09:50 --- xcmap.c 1993/04/28 07:09:03 *************** *** 9,15 **** --- 9,19 ---- /* include files */ #include <stdio.h> + #if defined(sun) && defined(SYSV) + #include <string.h> + #else #include <strings.h> + #endif #include <ctype.h> #include <X11/Xos.h> *** 1.1 1993/04/28 06:17:41 --- tiff/Imakefile 1993/04/28 08:53:34 *************** *** 49,59 **** --- 49,69 ---- tif_compress.o: Imakefile + #if HasGcc g3states.h: mkg3states.c t4.h -${RM} g3states.h + ${CC} -traditional -o mkg3states ${CFLAGS} mkg3states.c + ./mkg3states > g3states.h || rm g3states.h + #else + g3states.h: mkg3states.c t4.h + -${RM} g3states.h ${CC} -o mkg3states ${CFLAGS} mkg3states.c ./mkg3states > g3states.h || rm g3states.h + #endif depend:: g3states.h + clean:: + -${RM} mkg3states g3states.h + DependTarget()
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Or perhaps you write a freely available, GPLed unix for commonly available computer platforms (i386/i486 machines) and become a catalyst for a major netwide project which produces a better unix-like os than many commercial counterparts (see comp.os.linux for details). Or maybe you found a Legue for Programming Freedom to fight restrictive litigation and software patenting practices, thereby protecting the creative freedom so vital to continuing progress in our field. Or maybe you start up a gnu project, and produce by far and away the best c/c++ compiler for unix there is, not to mention other valuable utilities. Some hackers make significant contributions without selling out their ideals. As for Bill Gates, after pawning of grossly inferior software onto the PC market for ten years, if he ever was a hacker, he deserves to have his name eradicated from the Annals of Computer Hackery. As for me, I like running linux+X+countless other packages, without paying a dime. On the other hand, I have no problem purchasing motif or other good software, as long as Microsoft hasn't fouled it with their inept input. My 2 cents worth, flames will be patiently ignored. :-) Jean. -- Jean Liddle Computer Science, Illinois State University e-mail: jliddle@ilstu.edu
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Diamond Video cards (stealth, viper, speedstar, etc...) may have excellent specifications, and the windows drivers that come with them might make windows BLINDINGLY fast, BUT: If you're considering buying a system, with a view to using it to run Unix (Linux, bsd, etc...) or some other special software, there is a good chance that it WILL NOT WORK with the Diamond cards. This is due to Diamond's propriety attitude to it's hardware: it's impossible to get free information from them about their chips (specifically their dot-clocks) without paying, and signing non-disclosure agreements. This made it impossible for the Free Software Foundation to provide X-Windows compatibility with these cards, as diamond didn't want to divulge programming neccessities. As far as I know only Diamond has this propriety on it's info.
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This may be an FAQ (if so, please direct me to the known answer) but I am getting frustrated and looking for help. I am running Win 3.1 with NDW 2.2 on a 486sx with 8 meg of memory and a 6 meg perm swap file and am getting exceedingly frustrated that my applications are not giving back system resources when I close them. When I load windows I start with about 83% resources available but many of the application programs I run regularly (WPWIN 5.2, VB 2.0, WINQVT 2.8, Lotus Organizer, etc.) seem to not return all their resources when I exit them. After a day or two of work I often find myself down under 50% of available resources even when I have no applications other than my shell running. I am aware this is a known problem; what I am looking for are some suggestions of what I might do to mitigate it. 1. What software is the culprit? Win 3.1, NDW, my applications? Are some modes of Win 3.1 (standard, real, enhanced) better than others at plugging this leak? 2. Are their system.ini switches i can set to help plug this leak? 3. Do people know of patches or third party software that help with this? Seems like increasing or better managing system resources is a great market for a third party memory company like QEMM. 4. If I run Progman instead of NDW will the leak subside? (I was hoping that NDW 2.2 would have plugged this, but it seems no different than 2.0 in how it deals with memory and resources.) 5. When I am writing VB code are there things I can do to make it less likely my code will eat resources? 6. Any other suggestions that I don't know enough to ask for specifically? Thanks for your help. As this is a common problem and I have seen only a little discussion of it on the net there are probably others who would like to read answers so please publish here rather than sending me email.
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Yes, I have both Arts & Letters and CorelDraw. I personally like Arts & Letters better but there are things I like about Arts & Letters that CorelDraw doesn't do an vice-versa. I haven't found the perfect graphics program that does everything yet. My favorite feature from CorelDraw is that it imports alot of different formats. Arts & Letters does not. I like the thousands of clipart available with Arts & Letters. However, I do find looking them up in a book and referencing them by number to be annoying. One of my major problems is that there isn't any programs available on the market for the artistically deprived :-).
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I have a copy of 'The Earth-From Space' on my wall that I purchased from Space Shots, Inc. (LA, CA (800) 272-2779). As printed on the poster, the image was created by Tom Van Sant and the GeoSphere Project. The image IS copyrighted, so I doubt that you'll find it legally in the public domain. Part of the proceeds from the sale of the image go to the GeoSphere Project (an environmental education thing), and the cost is nominal, so crack a 20 and buy one! Also, I don't think it's always safe to assume that just because the government 'funded' a project, any products will be provided for free. Many government agencies (NASA, NOAA) and some private groups (National Geographic) provided assistance to the GeoSphere Project. This collaboration seems to be mostly oriented to educating the public, rather than pure research.
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I know this is the wrong newsgroup, but I was wondering if anyone knows the date(s) of this year's COMDEX convention in Atlanta,GA. Or has it passed already?? E-mail if possible. Thanks.
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Does anyone out there have at hand the phone or fax number for TECH POWER, who are a PC motherboard manufacturer (may be known as TECH POWER Enterprises). Thannks in advance - Chris
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1) Lucas film 2) Pixar 3) 3D/Eye Inc. 4) Light & Magic
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sherman@lea.csc.ncsu.edu (Chris Sherman) gripes: xv's been shareware for about a year ... hadn't you noticed? I don't have a problem with this. John Bradley has put a *hell* of a lot of work into xv, and if he feels that it's time to get some monetary reward from it, that's surely his right. Had you bothered to consult the distribution terms of the IJG JPEG code (which are right there in the xv distribution), you would have observed that we specifically grant permission for use in shareware and commercial software. Sam Leffler's libtiff copyright also grants permission for unrestricted use including resale. "Commercial"? There's a big difference between a polite request for a voluntary donation and commercial, it's-illegal-to-copy-this- and-we'll-sic-our-lawyers-on-you software. I do agree that John's readme file could be a little clearer about what he means by personal use.
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In Win 3.1, one may assign hot-keys for the program items within the Program Manager. How about the Program Manager itself? Is there one already, or is there some way to assign one?
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If you think that windows is useable, you must not use it much. Windows version of "crash protection" is wearing a helmet while computing. The arir (air) bag is an expensive add-on. Brett
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I am servicing a machine (HP-286) and whenever the thing starts up I get 4 beeps on powerup. Does anyone know what error message that signifies? I don't seem to have any problem with the machine but the lady who is using it is "very concerned" about it. Don't you just love HP computers??? Preferr responses by E-mail but I read the net so you can post it here.
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I just removed an IDE drive and reformated two SCSI disk to use as boot disk in a system that did run Windows fine in 386 Enhanced Mode. Its a DX50 with 8 meg RAM, and an Adaptec 1542b with bios enabled. System runs fine and runs Windows in standard mode fine, but it returns to the DOS prompt when trying to run 386 mode. I've tried EMMExclude and SysROMBreakPoint. What gives?????? Thanks in advance, Hal
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element analysis, radiosity, distributed processing Hi, I'm looking for references to parallel algorithms on: octrees adaptive subdivision adaptive meshing finite element meshing/analysis radiosity Any help will be greatly appreciated. E-mail replies to
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Lets see... what MS products don't have major bugs in them? Oh, but the fifth release the bugs are generally cleared up, even if their customers must buy new "releases" from them that are little more than bug fixes. Anyone who buys a $2500 computer system and then runs MS Windows on it is in desperate need of sympathy. Oh wait! MS innovated the plastic housing on the MS mouse---didn't they? "Logitech Inside" You can't even really call it secondary creativity when a company gathers together a bunch of knock-off packages and peddles them to neophytes. If MS does anything, it appears someone has to do it first. It appears that MS is finding out that throwing money at technological problems is by no means a guaranteed solution. ---------------------------------------------
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I am *almost* done porting XFree86 1.2 to a new piece of display hardware, but have run into a snag I think may be somewhat commonplace, so I'm sending a net-feeler. I have a display that is a non-interlaced, memory mapped, 1-bit 720x280 display. The server's view of the world, (obtained via xwd | xwud), seems to be exactly what it should be. However, the displayed version of the framebuffer gives the impression that the server is using scanlines that are too long. After a bit of experimentation, it seems that the problem was that the server was padding the line out to a word boundry, but the scanline size in the buffer is 90 bytes, which isn't exactly divisible by four. Changing the following defines in mit/server/include/servermd.h: ---- #define BITMAP_SCANLINE_PAD 32 #define LOG2_BITMAP_PAD 5 #define LOG2_BYTES_PER_SCANLINE_PAD 2 --- to: --- #define BITMAP_SCANLINE_PAD 16 #define LOG2_BITMAP_PAD 4 #define LOG2_BYTES_PER_SCANLINE_PAD 2 --- Was not exactly the right solution. How do I tell the server either (a) don't pad the scan lines at all ('cause this server is only being built to run on this particular display), or to pad only to byte boundries? I'm using a customized version of XFree86v1.2, under Mach 3.0.
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Yes. There are many methods of rendering, raytracing is one of them. You didn't say what you mean by rendering, so I won't guess. Methods of rendering include: o Pencil and graph paper, doing the math by hand o Wireframe rendering of the 2D projection o Hidden line rendering o Scanline rendering using: - Painter's algorithm. - BSP trees. - Z buffer - Other o Raytracing o Radiosity o Holographic projection to film o Combination of any of the above
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I have a very funny yet confusing problem. I am using Telemate within Win 3.1. Everytime I close dos box, my Telemate operation get affected (Normally I am doing file transfer). However, if I open + close windows program everything seems running smoothly. My file transfer operation get affected only if I close dos box. Can somebody please gimme some pointers on what is going on and how to fix it??
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Forgive me if this is stupid, but didn't I see a rumor somewhere that Apple was working on an Intel platform OS. Say like system 7 for 80X86's?
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Hello All! I recently acquired a CD-ROM drive, a Mitsumi (mfg. Feb/93) [Hey, it was free :-) ] I'm quite pleased with the performance, but it seems to crash a lot when I use PLAYCD.EXE that came with it a DESQview 2.31 - Thoughts? This mainly happens when my BBS is running in the background and I load the program up.. If I load the program, it doesn't crash, and I start the disk, stop the program and start the BBS its OK, but otherwise I have big problems.. (IE, they can only be solved with a cold boot). If -anybody- can mail me to help me, I would be eternally grateful (unfortunately, my feed to this group is a little unreliable so I would appreciate if you could mail, but by all means, post it too because I'm sure somebody else would like to know...) Cheers, Wes
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I'm also interested in info both public domain and commercial graphics library package to do PC VGA graphics. I'm currently working on a realtime application running on a PCC with a non-DOS kernel that needs to do some simple graphics. I'm not sure if reentrancy of the graphics library is going to be an issue or not. I suspect I'll implement the display controller as a server process that handles graphics requests, queued on a mailbox, one at a time. If this provides sufficiently frequent display updates then I believe that I can restrict all graphics operations to be performed by the server and thus constrain access to the library to a this single process and avoid the need for a reentrant graphics library. Being fairly new to the realtime systems world I may be overlooking something, what do you think?
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Xoftware from Age Software has proven good by me. Runs under MS Windows and is relatively stable. techsup@age.com could probably help you out more. --Andy
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I've recently re-uploaded to cica the current (v2.8) version of the working model of MicroCal Origin, a scientific and technical 2D/3D graphics and data analysis package for Windows 3.x. The working model is 2D only and puts a promo message on hardcopies, but is largely identical to the full version. Saving Origin files is disabled, but you can save ASCII data sets produced with Origin. It also says it has an expiration date of Sept. 1, 1993. Try it. You may like it, as I do! It's currently at ftp.cica.indiana.edu (129.79.20.17) in the directory /pub/pc/win3/uploads as ORIGIN2.ZIP. The file ORIGIN.ZIP is, unfortunately, incomplete (SORRY 'BOUT THAT!).
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Does anyone know of any free X-servers for PCs, preferably that run under MS Windows? THANKS.
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Hei Pei. I can not help you directly width you problem, but there may be intermediate roads to take to get to the IFF. I am using a converter that can take IGES, IIF, DXF -> IGES, MILESPEC I IGES, MILESPEC II IGES, IIF, MILESPEC I IIF, MILESPEC II IIF and DXF. IIF is IBM IGES FORMAT. There may be converters out there that can handle IGES to IFF. Hope this was to any help. By the way the converter is part of the IGES Processor/6000 package from IBM and it runs on RS/6000 AIX.
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