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From: peter@palin.cc.monash.edu.au (Peter Hawkins)
Subject: drafting packages
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 23:23:50 GMT

Hi,

Does anyone know of any public domain drafting packages, or failing that a drawing
package with some drafting features?

Peter

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From: envbvs@epb9.lbl.gov (Brian V. Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
Subject: Re: importing/pasting text wit xfig
Date: 14 Sep 92 16:47:35 GMT
Organization: lbl
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In article <9+0yw3h@rpi.edu>, wiseb@rigel.cs.rpi.edu (Bowden Wise) writes:
|> Has anyone been able to "paste" text from another window into xfig?
|> There is a little blurb in the man page that talks about using the
|> translations mechanism and to define a key for the canvas.  Has anyone
|> successfully been able to do that?  I tried to do so, but it has no
|> effect; but, I may not be defining the translations properly.
|> 
|> If anyone has done this before or has an idea, please let me know.

The default for xfig is to use F18 as the paste key (because on Sun keyboards
that is the Paste key).

If you wish, you can map another key to do the pasting.  In the Fig.ad file
*that comes with xfig* you will see an example of using F20 as the paste key.

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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
From: liebman@xrxedds.UUCP (Chris Liebman)
Subject: Re: X interface to RCS
Organization: EDDS, Xerox Corporation, Herndon Va.
	<1992Sep8.121436.24249@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 15:06:50 GMT


On 8 Sep 92 12:14:36 GMT,
dhm2j@fulton.seas.Virginia.EDU (Derek H. Miller) said:
Derek> In article <1992Sep7.195927.14072@oracle.pnl.gov> d3e129@cagle.pnl.gov (Rick A Kendall) writes:
>
>Does there exist such a product.  I have a summer student that wants to learn to do some x programming and we thought this might be a useful utility to have.
>Any information on the subject would be useful.  Thanks in advance.  
>

Derek> I am also interested in such a beast. If anyone has an answer, could
Derek> you post the answer or send me mail and I will post a summary?

I wrote an X front end to RCS a while ago.  It has no documentation
and probably needs some cleanup work. If somewone is intrested in
helping to get it into shape I could make it available.

			-- Chris

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From: kr1@csug.cs.reading.ac.uk (Kevin Richards (METOFF))
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
Subject: Re: Looking for a few programs ...
Date: 11 Sep 92 08:01:34 GMT
Reply-To: kr1@csug.cs.reading.ac.uk
Organization: Dept. of Comp. Sci., University of Reading

Hi,

	Xtank still can't use 3D mode. But a latest release has been made this week
	which gets rid of some bugs. The address (if i remember correctly) is
		azathoth.sura.net:/pub/xtank/xtank1.3e.tar.Z
			(faster link .....)
or
		ftp.eng.umd.edu:/pub/xtank/xtank1.3e.tar.Z

	Theres also two newsgroups
		rec.games.xtank.play
		rec.games.xtank.programmer
	
	Hope this helps
		Kev

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From: sager@tiger1.prime.com (Leo Sager)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps,comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Graphing Again
Date: 14 Sep 92 18:04:36 GMT
Organization: Prime Computer, Inc.

I posted last week askign for graphing applications, I need something that given a
set of nodes and edges generates a graph (with minimal line crossing). 

One person sent me a program, but it doesn't do any sort of "graph management" (like
make it planer or make the lines nice and straight"

Someone suggested xgrab, and while it seems to have the functionality I want (from
reading man pages), It requires Interviews and g++. I really do not want to have to
get a completely new compiler just for this one application...

So, anything out there that can manipulate graphs, so some management of them, and
make them look pretty...It doesn't even have to be an X application, even a PC thing
would be fine. (but X is preferred)

send Email responses only... Thanks!

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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
From: dhm2j@fulton.seas.Virginia.EDU (Derek H. Miller)
Subject: Re: Address/Phone book for X
Organization: University of Virginia
Distribution: comp
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 11:58:47 GMT

In article <ALBERTO.92Sep11235352@karna.cs.umd.edu> alberto@cs.umd.edu (Jose Alberto Fernandez R) writes:
>
>Does anybody know about a PD address and phone book utility for X11?
>The most important part is that the database should be an ascii file.
>So that people can access it from an ascii terminal.
>
>	Jose Alberto.

Try xrolo or xrolotool available from export.lcs.mit.edu via anonymous
ftp. These are particularly nice if you run OpenWindows from Sun since
they use the OpenLook format.

                            Derek H. Miller (Deke)
                            Principal Computer Systems Engineer
                            U. S. Postal Service Process Control Division
                            Address: dhm2j@virginia.edu
From: berman@nlm.nih.gov (Lew Berman)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
Subject: latex, dvi, ps viewer
Date: 9 Sep 92 18:45:50 GMT
Reply-To: berman@nlm.nih.gov
Organization: National Library of Medicine

Can you please recommend a latex/dvi/postscript viewer for a
Solbourne S4000 running the solbourne window manager (does not have 
NeWS).

Please e-mail me directly.

Thanks,

Lew Berman
National Library of Medicine
From: salnick@dejavu.spk.wa.us (There is no substitute for displacement...)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
Subject: Re: Postscript to bitmap conversion?
Date: 13 Sep 92 14:24:39 GMT
Organization: Not Organized

In article <18u5efINNlci@agate.berkeley.edu> dcook@garnet.berkeley.edu (Dan Cook) writes:
>I'm looking for a way to convert some postscript files
>to X11 bitmap format... Does anyone have any ideas?
>
>-uncle dan

PbmPlus utilities?

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From: alfred@arthur.et.tudelft.nl (Alfred van der Hoeven)
Subject: Another bug in xfig 2.1.4
Reply-To: alfred@dutentb.et.tudelft.nl
Organization: Delft University of Technology
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 11:37:09 GMT

I found another problem with xfig, when running the program on
an HP9000/720, for which I have a fix but no solution.
When I want to change a previously entered text, using the 'Edit' menu option,
it tends to exchange lowercase characters for uppercase characters.

For instance, if I enter the string 'abcdefghij' in the
text modification window, I instead see (and get) the string 'AbcDEfghIj'.

Apparently, it has something to do with the file 'CompKeyDB', because
if I invoke the program with 'xfig -k ""', the text modification window
works OK.

The problem does not appear when I run xfig on a SUN sparcstation,
so it may be an HP problem instead of an xfig problem.

In both cases, I use a SUN 3/60 running X11R4 for the display.

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From: my@berlioz.nsc.com (Mike Yip)
Subject: Looking for a few programs ...
Summary: Where is the latest ACM, XTANK, etc
Originator: my@laverde
Keywords: Games, xtank, acm
Organization: National Semiconductor Corp.
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 04:56:07 GMT

Hello,
	I am looking for FTP sites for multi-user networking programs
and games.  I know of only ACM and XTANK.  (ACM is a multiuser flight
simulator and xtank is a multiuser tank game in a maze.)  But I have
the really old versions.  Any other games/programs?

-- Mike

PS: Can Xtank be display in 3-D yet?



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From: vances@xenitec.on.ca (Vance Shipley)
Subject: Computer Graphics Metafiles 
Organization: SwitchView Inc., Waterloo, Ontario
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 03:41:12 GMT
Keywords: CGM metafile postscript X11


I have a CD full of CGM files that I would like to view in X-windows.
I'd also like to print them on a postscript printer.  Is there anything
out there to do this?

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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps,comp.sys.sun.apps
From: dorab@maui.cs.ucla.edu (Dorab Patel)
Subject: drawing package (corel vs. island)
Originator: dorab@maui.cs.ucla.edu
Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 92 18:07:32 GMT


i'd like to hear from persons who've used either corel draw or
island draw (preferably both) who could tell me the things they
like and dislike about the two.  a feature-by-feature comparison
would be nice too.  on the offchance that someone knows ... can
either of them import drawings made by freehand on a mac  -- as
structured drawings, not bitmaps.

email me and i'll summarize.

thanx

'dorab
<dorab@cs.ucla.edu> or <dorab@twinsun.com>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps,comp.windows.x
From: smith@compound.se (Bjorn Smith)
Subject: Xtroff <-> X11R5 rerasterize error
Organization: Compound Systems AB
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 09:18:04 GMT


Is there possibly anyone that successfully has used xtroff in an
X11R5 environment ?

Our xtroff starts properly but when selecting rerasterize at the menu
the program dies and the following message comes out on stderr:

X Error of failed request:  BadGC (invalid GC parameter)
  Major opcode of failed request:  56 (X_ChangeGC)
  Resource id in failed request:  0x0
  Serial number of failed request:  1332
  Current serial number in output stream:  1346

Another problem is that when using together with groff the text
filling/adjusting is a mess.

Has the combination groff/xtroff been successfully used by anyone ?


Thanks in advance !
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From: thor@csd.uwo.ca (Jim Thorsley)
Subject: Re: zoom in ghostview 1.3
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Western Ontario, London
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 18:37:38 GMT

In article <1992Sep10.211056.7501@julian.uwo.ca> thor@csd.uwo.ca (Jim Thorsley) writes:
>In article <1992Sep4.150516@genethon.fr> pat@genethon.fr (Patricia Rodriguez-Tome) writes:
>>
>>Hello,
>> I recently installed on a Sparc2, SunOS4.1.2,
>> the version 2.5 of ghostscript and 1.3 of ghostview,
>> compiled with Sun C compiler and linked with X11R5.
>> Everything works fine but the zoom : I get the zoom
>> window but nothing inside.
>> I had before ghostcript2.4 and ghostview1.1, and the
>> zoom worked perfectly on the same files.
>>
>> Thanks in advance for any help
>>
>> Pat R.Tome
>> 
>>
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>
>I have the same problem. I compiled both ghostscript 2.5 and ghostview 1.3
>with gcc and used X11R5 and I can't zoom. I ran ghostview 1.3 using
>ghostscript 2.4.1 and it worked except ghostview's widget layout was
>messed up. The zoom did work though. Any ideas?
>
>-Jim Thorsley
>

Well, I did some experiments. I seems that ghostview 1.3 doesn't work
with ghostscript 2.5 but it does work with ghostscript 2.4.1. I tried
it under both X11R4 and R5 with the same results. It seems that
ghostview depends on something that changed in ghostscript.

Also, I found that each zoom window forks a copy of ghostscript which
doesn't die when the zoom window is dismissed. After a few zooms I have
a dozen gs processes lying around. I think this is a bug in ghostview.

Any comments?

-Jim Thorsley
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
From: witr@rwwa.COM (Robert Withrow)
Subject: Re: xrn 6.17 memory usage
Reply-To: witr@rwwa.com
Organization: R.W. Withrow Associates
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 15:23:04 GMT

In article <1992Sep10.180949.15032@sunova.ssc.gov>, rupen@smurf.ssc.gov (Rupen Sheth) writes:
| It seems that at times (esp. after reading articles and quitting to go to the
| toplevel newsgroups list), the memory usage of xrn goes up drastically (between
| 50 to 80% - when seen using 'ps -aux').

Various people have claimed, and my experience agrees, that XRN leaks badly.
I have griped about this, and checking this out what a debugging malloc is
one of the things in my list, but nothing as yet has been done about it.
(Learning French is in my list also, above diddling with XRN.   ;-) )

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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
From: villa@ghost.dsi.unimi.it (Max .Vilas. Villa)
Subject: Windows dump
Organization: Computer Science Dep. - Milan University
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 10:32:03 GMT

Hello people, I need to manipulate a dump window image obtained by 
xwd and then convert it on a Eps file. Can anyone help me ?
Thanks in advance. ( please reply vie e-mail )
Ciao Massimo.

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From: envbvs@epb9.lbl.gov (Brian V. Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
Subject: Re: Need help with xfig
Date: 6 Sep 1992 22:47:00 GMT
Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley
Reply-To: envbvs@epb9.lbl.gov (Brian V. Smith)
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.12.98
Keywords: xfig

	>I just started using "xfig" and was trying to write some Greek symbols in my diagram.
	>I notice there is a "Symbols (Greek)" item in the Text selection menu, but I just 
	>couldn't figure out how to generate the symbols, once the menu item is selected.
	>Can anyone help me out there?  Thanks in advance.

I accidently introduced a bug in the font selection code with regard to non-
ISO fonts (e.g. Symbol).  Just change the code in the file u_font.c that adds
iso-8859 to the font name from this:

	    strcat(template,"*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*");

to this:
	    strcat(template,"*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*");

There are TWO such instances.
This will be fixed in 2.1.5 (not out yet).

Brian V. Smith    (bvsmith@lbl.gov)
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
I don't speak for LBL; they don't pay me enough for that.
From: wiseb@rigel.cs.rpi.edu (Bowden Wise)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
Subject: importing/pasting text wit xfig
Date: 14 Sep 92 16:23:23 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Computer Science, Troy NY

Has anyone been able to "paste" text from another window into xfig?
There is a little blurb in the man page that talks about using the
translations mechanism and to define a key for the canvas.  Has anyone
successfully been able to do that?  I tried to do so, but it has no
effect; but, I may not be defining the translations properly.

If anyone has done this before or has an idea, please let me know.
From: dansmith@Autodesk.COM (Daniel Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
Subject: Free X based comm package out there?
Date: 14 Sep 92 01:26:04 GMT
Organization: Autodesk Inc., Sausalito CA, USA


	Anything like an X version of Procomm or Crosstalk out there?
Doesn't have to be fancy (scripting and all that).  Looking for something
a little more friendly than just text-based tip or kermit.

				Daniel

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From: samari@watnxt2.ucr.edu (Tammy Woodley)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
Subject: Phigs
Date: 4 Sep 92 23:08:15 GMT
Reply-To: samari@watserv.ucr.edu
Distribution: usa


Hi

I'm not sure if this is the right place to post, and if so, please
redirect me.

I'm working with Xwindow mostly, but was faced with needing to know
the basics of phigs too.  So far, it's been ok, except there are a few
macros I can't find anywhere in the include files.  Also, there
are a couple of functions that are not explained in the phigs book
I have.  Would any of you be willing to lend me a hand?  If so, great!

- Thanks in advance..

- Tammy


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From: thor@csd.uwo.ca (Jim Thorsley)
Subject: Re: soom in ghostview 1.3
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Western Ontario, London
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 21:10:56 GMT

In article <1992Sep4.150516@genethon.fr> pat@genethon.fr (Patricia Rodriguez-Tome) writes:
>
>Hello,
> I recently installed on a Sparc2, SunOS4.1.2,
> the version 2.5 of ghostscript and 1.3 of ghostview,
> compiled with Sun C compiler and linked with X11R5.
> Everything works fine but the zoom : I get the zoom
> window but nothing inside.
> I had before ghostcript2.4 and ghostview1.1, and the
> zoom worked perfectly on the same files.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help
>
> Pat R.Tome
> 
>
>-- 
>-------------------------------------------------------------
>Patricia RODRIGUEZ-TOME       Genethon
>Internet : pat@genethon.fr
>-------------------------------------------------------------

I have the same problem. I compiled both ghostscript 2.5 and ghostview 1.3
with gcc and used X11R5 and I can't zoom. I ran ghostview 1.3 using
ghostscript 2.4.1 and it worked except ghostview's widget layout was
messed up. The zoom did work though. Any ideas?

-Jim Thorsley
From: rodgers@engcon.marshall.ltv.com (KMRODGERS)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
Subject: Mail Server with xmgr?
Summary: no ftp
Date: 9 Sep 92 17:36:06 GMT
Reply-To: rodgers@engcon.UUCP (KMRODGERS)
Organization: LTV MEG, Dallas, TX


I keep hearing wonderful things about x{m,v}gr and would love to try it
out, but I don't have ftp access.  The only direct connection we have here
is a uucp connection with uunet.  Last time I looked (1 sept), xmgr was not
on uunet.  I have also looked at the mailserver for gatekeeper.dec.com and
have not found xmgr there either.  So, does anyone know of a mailserver
that has xmgr?  Failing that, would someone be willing to uuencode it, 
break it up, and mail it to me?  Please email responses (our news feed runs
about a week behind) and I will summarize.  Thanks in advance . . .

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From: cop18@lehre24.informatik.Uni-Bremen.DE (Kompilerpraktikum Gruppe18)
Subject: bug in xfig 2.1.4
Organization: Universitaet Bremen
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 15:29:46 GMT

At first, I want to thank you for your fast support. After patching u_undo.c and 
object.c, our HP9000-compiler got through.

I started xfig and it worked fine until I wanted to load an example !
After opening the Filemenu and clicking randomly on the FileSelector, the 
program core-dumped. 

I tried this several times, but everytime the same happend. I hope that there are 
some patches for this bug. 

Hopefully you can help me this time again.
 

                                    Dirk

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From: sinkwitz@ifi.unizh.ch (Rainer Sinkwitz)
Subject: Re: xclock format w/o year
Organization: University of Zurich, Department of Computer Science
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 12:16:38 GMT


In article <5458@dove.nist.gov>, fein@epg.nist.gov (Aaron Fein) writes:
> I neglected to mention that I am trying to eliminate the year from the xclock
> format.  Any ideas on how this is done?	
> 
> Thanks, Aaron

You cannot, unless you change the source in 
mit/lib/Xaw/Clock.c, line 335 :            time_ptr = asctime(&tm);

     asctime() converts a time value contained in a tm  structure
     to a 26-character string of the form:

          Sun Sep 16 01:03:52 1973\n\0

You could copy the mit/lib/Xaw/Clock* files together with the
mit/clients/xclock/* files and build this stand-alone.

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From: fein@epg.nist.gov (Aaron Fein)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
Subject: xclock format w/o year
Date: 9 Sep 92 19:52:26 GMT
Reply-To: fein@epg.nist.gov
Organization: NIST

I neglected to mention that I am trying to eliminate the year from the xclock
format.  Any ideas on how this is done?	

Thanks, Aaron
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From: spel@hippo.ru.ac.za (Dr. Eberhard W. Lisse)
Subject: Re: drafting packages
Organization: Katatura State Hospital, Windhoek, Namibia
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 17:55:13 GMT

In <peter.715994630@palin.cc.monash.edu.au> peter@palin.cc.monash.edu.au (Peter Hawkins) writes:

>Hi,

>Does anyone know of any public domain drafting packages, or failing that a drawing
>package with some drafting features?

Try brlcad, off brl.mil.

Let me know if you like it, am considering getting it.

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From: raney@teal.csn.org (Scott Raney)
Subject: Re: Need slide-show with audio (Sun) pgm
Organization: Colorado SuperNet, Inc.
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 22:02:50 GMT

henry@geo.ucalgary.ca (Henry Bland) writes:

>I'm looking for a program that can display digitized pictures (any format)
>and play a running commentary at the same time using the Sun's built-in
>audio player.  

>Does anyone know of such a beast?

MetaCard is about ideal for this, now that sound is supported (1.2
release now in beta).  It also supports visual effects for transitions
between cards.

You can anonymously FTP the beta from ftp.uu.net (directory
vendor/MetaCard).  Note that MetaCard is a commercial product ($495),
but no runtime royalties are required and educational users get a 50%
discount.
   Scott

>Thanks,
>-Henry Bland
>University of Calgary, Canada
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