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From: dcoyle@holly.gpsemi.com (Diarmuid Coyle LDC X2414 AKA "The Terminator")
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps
Subject: advice on xview/X
Keywords: widgets
Date: 15 Dec 92 11:40:14 GMT
Organization: GEC Plessey Semiconductors

I have been writing some basic applications using the xview programming kit
and with some success. However I now wish to add some facilities to an
application which is not available from xview. I would also like to move
the program to pure X11R4. Can anyone advise me as to where I can find
some SIMPLE examples of X programs and whether it is wise to continue working
with xview. 

Also what is a widget and where do I get useful information on them.


Sorry for the simplistic questions.



					many thanks
					Diarmuid Coyle.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps
From: jeff@BofA.COM (Jeff Tate)
Subject: implify/SQL and Ingres 6.4/01
Organization: Bank of America, Capital Products, RMTG #5906
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 00:08:26 GMT

I can't get Simplify to convert an ingres database for use.  No messages, just
a:

	Cannot create SimplifySQL schema. 

I am running as ingres on the ingres server.  Any ideas?  Please e-mail and I will
post a synopsis

Thanx


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From: corson@infodyn.com (Tom Corson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps,comp.sys.sun.misc,alt.sys.sun
Subject: Problem converting Sun rasterfile
Date: 20 Dec 92 22:43:02 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.sun.apps
Organization: Information Dynamics, Saratoga, CA, USA

I have a color rasterfile created with snapshot that I am trying to convert
to a one bit image using rasfilter8to1.

I get:
	rasfilter8to1: input has unsupported colormap type or length

If I try to use rasttopnm, I get:
	rasttopnm: unable to read in rasterfile header

rash handles the file with no problem.

Can someone out there tell me what magic I need to do to get rasfilter8to1
or rasttopnm to process the file?

Thanks in advance!
TC

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From: ANDREW@odin.uniras.dk (Leif Andrew Rump, Software Engineer, UNIRAS A/S)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps
Subject: SimCity for Sun - Yeah!!!
Date: 16 Dec 1992 04:07:02 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu

Hi,

Dux Software has released SimCity for Sun (known on PC, Mac & Amiga)
and I just wanted to know if some of you have tried it and if you
would please mail me your experience with the program.

Andrew

Leif Andrew Rump, UNIRAS A/S, 376, Gladsaxevej, DK-2860 Soeborg, Denmark
UUCP: andrew@odin.uniras.dk, Phone: +45 31 67 22 88, Fax: +45 31 67 60 45

Project: Toolmaster-UIM/X (tux)
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From: huober_j@xwini.rz.uni-ulm.de (Joachim Huober)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps
Subject: Using the OL3.0 Calendar Manager on X-Terminals
Date: 17 Dec 92 18:01:46 GMT
Organization: Universitaet Ulm

Hi netters,

formerly I used a SS2 as my desktop machine. Now I have a NCD 17cr
X-Terminal, from which I login to my old SS2 (which is too loud).

I used the OpenLook3.0 Calendar Manager cm which runs also on
the NCD-Display, but the Fonts are so ugly and you cannot always
hit the buttons, some buttons are hidden, the normal font is very
small and the bold font is v e r y big :-(. I tried
    $ cm -fn <some font name>
well, it made some changes, but I don't find a font, where I can
hit each button.

Is there anybody who solved this problem?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps
From: alan@metadigm.co.uk (Alan McRae)
Subject: PC Emulator on X-Terminals
Reply-To: alan@metadigm.co.uk
Organization: Metadigm Ltd
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 1992 20:16:43 GMT

Does anyone have experience of a SPARC based PC Emulator (with
or without hardware) that will allow PC applications to be run on
a Sun displaying their (VGA,...) output in an X-Terminal window.

If so, please can you send me the product/distributor names and
any comments on the product.

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From: dcoyle@holly.gpsemi.com (Diarmuid Coyle LDC X2414 AKA "The Terminator")
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps
Subject: help simple buttons example
Keywords: X button, widget
Date: 15 Dec 92 16:49:09 GMT
Organization: GEC Plessey Semiconductors


Excuse my ignorance, but has anyone got a SIMPLE example of how to draw
a window with a single button in it using X? I am using OW2.0 and olwm.

Also are programs written with the xview toolkit X11 compatible?


many thanks
Diarmuid coyle (dcoyle@lincoln.gpsemi.com.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps
From: billd@gdstech.GRUMMAN.COM (Bill D'Camp)
Subject: Re: ?? Drawing Package for Sun ??
Followup-To: comp.sys.sun.apps
Organization: Grumman Corporation
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 18:42:01 GMT

In article <Holland_Thomas-141292094622@tomh.cpd.tandem.com> Holland_Thomas@Tandem.Com (Tom Holland) writes:
>    I am trying to determine wether I should use my Sun (FrameMaker) or 
>    my Mac (Word) for writing the documentation for my next project. One 
>    factor I am looking at is drawing capabilities. I'm not trying to
>   denigrate
>    either application, but the built in drawing capabilities of both Word and
>    FrameMaker are not too impressive (IMHO).  Are there any drawing 
>    packages for the Sun which are comperable to MacDraw on the Mac? Thanks.  

>   Tom Holland

You could try Island Draw, or if you have version 3 of  of Frame you
could do your drawing on the Mac and import them into Frame.
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From: rosen@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (steven.b.rosen)
Subject: Why is pcfs SOOO SLOOOOOOOOW
Followup-To: poster
Keywords: pcfs
Organization: AT&T
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 18:56:56 GMT

	Does anyone know why pcfs is so slow for big files?
When I copy a big file (>75k) from my ipx to the /pcfs file
system it takes MINUTES. Is there THAT MUCH overhead added
just for the dos <-> unix translations? Is there a way to
speed things up? I tried nice - but I couldn't really see
any difference.

	...steve...

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From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps
Subject: Re: Dumping OW and running X11R5(Was: Speed of Openwin 3)
Date: 18 Dec 92 02:18:49 GMT
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara

>Will the Andrew Toolkit X tools run under OW 3?

"ez" and "tm", at least, worked just fine when I tried 'em on a machine
running OW 3.0; they seem to work fine under OW 2.0, as well.  There may
be server problems that show up with other applications or with more
rigorous tests, but that can be said about most X servers....
From: junzhang@pepper.rutgers.edu (junbiao zhang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps
Subject: Concurrent C for Sun4 needed
Date: 17 Dec 92 17:48:14 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.


	We need concurrent C for Sun 4 workstation badly to complete our system. Does anybody know if there is a concurrent C freeware or one with relatively 
low price for Sun 4? Please email me . Thanks in advance.
	E-mail address:
	junzhang@paul.rutgers.edu

----J. Zhang
From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps
Subject: Re: Dumping OW and running X11R5(Was: Speed of Openwin 3)
Date: 14 Dec 92 22:55:28 GMT
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara

>PS - ANOTHER big reason to do this is that LOTS of PD X software WILL NOT 
>run under OW2/3.  WHY?  For some reason Sun is distributing an incompatible
>version of libXt - THIS REALLY SUCKS!

Err, incompatible with what?

The OW 2.0 "-lXt" is, modulo some SCCS IDs, the "-lXt" from X11R4, but
not at its final patch level.  Unfortunately, one of the missing patches
is the one where the MIT folks finally fixed the version number for
"-lXt", so if you have a bunch of widgets built with a patch level 18
X11R4, and use them with the OW 2.0 "-lXt", you'll get a bunch of whining
about version numbers.  There may be other ways in which
publicly-available X software depends on having "-lXt" up to patch level
18, so that may not work under OW 2.0.

As far as I know, the OW 3.0 "-lXt" is just the patch level 18 X11R4
"-lXt".  It's not the X11R5 "-lXt", so anything dependent on the X11R5
"-lXt" may not work.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps,comp.unix.programmer
From: SEB1525@MVS.draper.com (Steve Bacher)
Subject: Solved: UDP bidirectional socket problem
Followup-To: comp.unix.programmer
Organization: Draper Laboratory
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 18:18:00 GMT

On Tue, 10 Nov 1992 20:25:00 GMT I wrote:

>SunOS seems to be handling UDP sockets differently on a Sun-3 running
>SunOS 4.1.0 than on Sparcs or RS/6000's.
>
>We have a program that sets up 2 UDP peer-to-peer sockets between two
>Suns.  If both Suns are Sun-3's, they can read and write between 2
>processes using 1 socket on each side.  If the Sun-3 talks to the Sparc,
>then single sockets don't work - you end up needing 4 sockets, 2 on each
>side, 1 read and 1 write.

Well, thanks to Sun support among others, the problem is solved.  It
seems that when you use UDP sockets, you're only supposed to issue a
connect() from one side.  The other side is supposed to extract the
return address, and from then on you're supposed to use sendto().
We had been issuing connect() from both sides of the UDP socket.
Now the program is working fine.

Thanks to all who offered suggestions, and to Chia-ming Huang at Sun.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps
From: alh@einoed.in-berlin.de (Adrian Le Hanne)
Subject: Aviator flight simulator
Organization: Einoed Unix & Netzwerke, Berlin (FRG)
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 15:32:18 GMT

A faq probably. I heard that there is a demonstration version (limited
time) of Aviator. Is this demo available via FTP somewhere?
I'm also interested in the e-mail address of the company who distributes
Aviator.

Thanks,
Adrian
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps
From: bataller@dogie.macc.wisc.edu (Erik Bataller)
Subject: SimScript for the Sun
Organization: University of Wisconsin Academic Computing Center
Distribution: comp.sys.sun.apps
Date: 16 Dec 92 20:33:09

Hello,
	I was wondering if anyone has had any experience with Simscript
or has an info on it or other packages like it.

Thanks.

Erik

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Xref: sparky comp.sys.sun.apps:2811 comp.windows.open-look:4866 alt.toolkits.xview:1143
From: gohel@zeus.csee.usf.edu (Himanshu Gohel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps,comp.windows.open-look,alt.toolkits.xview
Subject: Re: (?) Print Tool deleting files when it's not supposed to...
Keywords: drag-n-drop onto an illegal site
Date: 7 Dec 92 14:15:39 GMT
Reply-To: gohel@csee.usf.edu
Followup-To: comp.sys.sun.apps
Organization: U of South Florida, Dept. of Computer Science

In article <1992Dec3.185302.21839@cs.uno.edu>, emurphy@cs.uno.edu
   (Edward Murphy) writes:
|> 
|> ...[deleted]...
|> 
|> When a file is dragged form the File Manager and dropped onto the  
|> box, it is printed and everything is fine. However, when the file is  
|> dragged and dropped onto the "Files:" field, it is not printed AND it is  
|> removed! This is an interesting "feature" which I have not been able to  
|> find documented.

   Something of this nature was discussed either in comp.windows.open-look
   or alt.toolkits.xview, I don't remember which.  Basically the person
   who replied said that what you're doing when you drag a file onto the
   "Files:" field is asking to *MOVE* the file from the File Manager to
   that location; so it does that!  (This is similar to dragging a file from
   one folder in the file manager and dropping it into another)

   As opposed to that, when you drop it onto a legal Drop site, it doesn't
   move it, it sends a copy to the Print tool.

|> After some experimentation. we've determined that such an action (i.e. the  
|> filed being deleted after dragging and dropping) can be reproduced  
|> anywhere ... [deleted]...
|> 
|> My first instinct is, this is a bug. If it is, does anyone have a fix? If  
|> it isn't, then what the heck is going on?
|> 
   According to the above description, it is not a bug, it is
   'apropriate' behaviour.  You must use the legal drop sites for the
   action you wish to perform.

-- 
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U of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620-3140
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps
From: georgn@noweh.com (Georg S. Nikodym)
Subject: Re: Dumping OW and running X11R5(Was: Speed of Openwin 3)
Organization: Noweh Software, Mississauga, CANADA
	<1992Dec8.163629.20626@ncsu.edu> <1992Dec12.034820.14970@wam.umd.edu>
	<FAN.92Dec13201652@tammy.cath.puh.upmc.edu>
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 06:46:46 GMT

In article <FAN.92Dec13201652@tammy.cath.puh.upmc.edu> fan@tammy.cath.puh.upmc.edu (Ningping Fan) writes:

   One of problem to use X11R5 to replace OW2/3 is some of the useful
   applications in OW2/3 do not work, such as mailtool (a extreamly useful one),
   dbxtool. Could you tell me how to make them work? I am fully agree with
   you that PD softwares do not work well in OW2 except better in OW3.
   Other very improtant applications are edittool and save environment.

mailtool and friends work fine under X11R5.  What doesn't work
are things that rely on NeWS (pageview, answerbook, etc).
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From: ktt3@unix.brighton.ac.uk (Koon Tang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps
Subject: VT220 and T4010/T4014 emulation
Date: 15 Dec 92 10:04:19 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, University of Brighton, UK

Dear All,

Does anybody know where I can get a good emulation of a VT100/VT220 terminal
together with Tektronix T4010/T4014 capabilities?

I am particulary interested with one which can handle graphics input.

Koon T. Tang,
Department of Mathematical Sciences,
University of Brighton,
England.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps
From: cptully@med.unc.edu (Christopher P. Tully,Pathology,62699)
Subject: Re: ?? Drawing Package for Sun ??
Reply-To: cptully@med.unc.edu
Organization: UNC-CH School of Medicine
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 14:05:04 GMT

In article 141292094622@tomh.cpd.tandem.com, Holland_Thomas@Tandem.Com (Tom Holland) writes:
>Hi,
>
> I am trying to determine wether I should use my Sun (FrameMaker) or 
> my Mac (Word) for writing the documentation for my next project. One 
> factor I am looking at is drawing capabilities. I'm not trying to
>denigrate
> either application, but the built in drawing capabilities of both Word and
> FrameMaker are not too impressive (IMHO).  Are there any drawing 
> packages for the Sun which are comperable to MacDraw on the Mac? Thanks.  
>
>Tom Holland

You might try CorelDraw.  They've Just ported to Unix.  Don't call
third party suppliers though - they are universally several hunderd
more than buying direct.


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps
From: peter@dragon.acadiau.ca (Peter Steele)
Subject: Re: Dumping OW and running X11R5(Was: Speed of Openwin 3)
Organization: Acadia University
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 12:38:10 GMT

>The last time I saw mailtool, it was just an interface to /usr/ucb/mail
>without added features.  There are plenty of more featureful user mail agents
>out there, like Messages from the Andrew ToolKit.  Even if you still want
>to run mailtool, though, just put /usr/openwin/lib after /usr/lib/X11 in
>LD_LIBRARY_PATH.  It's just an XView client and thus in no way requires the
>xnews server.

Will the Andrew Toolkit X tools run under OW 3?
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps
From: gmortens@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Gerald E Mortensen)
Subject: OW file manager problem
Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 92 12:05:48 EST

sometimes when i try to drag and drop a data file it gives
me a message something like "can not open folder - file
not a directory" instead of opening a text edit session
which is what usually happens. the weird thing is that which
data file this happens to depends on what else is in the directory;
e.g. if i get the error on file test1 and then make a new file test2,
the error now occurs on file test3. the files all open fine if you
do it explicitely, and they all look identical if you look with
%ls -l



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From: heidi@physci.psu.edu (Heidi Haberstroh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps
Subject: Sun GKS and monochrome monitors
Date: 18 Dec 1992 21:43:20 GMT
Organization: Penn State, Physical Sciences Laboratory
Distribution: world

I've run into a problem with Sun GKS displaying output on a monochrome
monitor.  The system in question is a Sparc 1 running SunOS 4.1.2 and GKS 4.1.
The program correctly opens a window, but randomly displays sections of the
output.   It does produce the correct output when the program creates a 
postscript file for printing.  The strange behavior only happens on a monochrome
monitor.  In color, the workstation output displays the whole plot.  This 
program used to work before I upgraded from SunOS 4.0.x and an older version 
of GKS.  The problem occurs whether I'm using OpenWindows 3, X11R5 or X11R4.

I don't have the GKS manuals, so I can't tell what changed between the 
versions.  I haven't seen any patches for GKS.  If anyone has any ideas, please
help me.  Right now, I've got a professor really pissed off me. 

Heidi Haberstroh
PSU Physics Department
104 Davey Lab, University Park, PA 16802    (814) 865-3024
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps
From: emike@sdc.com (E. Mike Durbin)
Subject: Re: ?? Drawing Package for Sun ??
Organization: Systems Development Corporation
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 14:58:08 GMT

In article <Holland_Thomas-141292094622@tomh.cpd.tandem.com> Holland_Thomas@Tandem.Com (Tom Holland) writes:
>Hi,
>
> I am trying to determine wether I should use my Sun (FrameMaker) or 
> my Mac (Word) for writing the documentation for my next project. One 
> factor I am looking at is drawing capabilities. I'm not trying to
>denigrate
> either application, but the built in drawing capabilities of both Word and
> FrameMaker are not too impressive (IMHO).  Are there any drawing 
> packages for the Sun which are comperable to MacDraw on the Mac? Thanks.  
>
>Tom Holland

Check CoralDraw, it has a live-link feature with FrameMaker.
-- 
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From: kvj@triple-i.com (Karl vonJena)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps
Subject: Re: Aviator flight simulator
Date: 17 Dec 92 22:21:16 GMT
Reply-To: kvj@triple-i.com
Organization: Information International, Inc.

A few people here have it. Great game! It isn't as complex as Falcon (PC & Mac) but it is too good to be a video game. The graphics are very smooth, but you only get full screen in 16 colors (half screen in 256 is a little too tight for my liking).

The game comes with terrain for the Hawiian Islands and San Francisco. You choose a plane from a list (727, F-18, f-16, x-29) and a weapons load (sidewinders and sparrows). You then can fly against other people on the net. Dogfighting in this game is fantastic. When you get into the furball, you really don't have time to worry much about anything else but the other guy. Playing in teams is the best. We have four people who play and luckily we have one pair at one end of the hall and the other pair at the o

ther end. This is great because you can talk to your wingman without the other side hearing your strategy.

The game is simple enough to allow novices to have some fun if the experts don't pick on them, but never gets boring because you're flying against an unpredictable, intelligent, and malicious foe--other humans.

My advise is to get the game if you can persuade someone else to get it too. It is prety boring if you only have one.

One warning! The game requires the graphics accelerator to play. If your machine boots up with the fancy 3-d sun logo (rather than the plain blue sun logo) you're all set to go. I think that the software is only $50 now (used to be more). I've heard that there's a new version coming soon that adds guns, incremental damage (now if you get hit, you die), and landing for repair, rearm, and refuel.


karl
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