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From: davis@bedlam.asd.sgi.com (Tom Davis)
Subject: Re: zip - 8 bit ascii "characters"?
Organization: sgi
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 15:36:31 GMT

Sorry.  I misunderstood.  There is another version of zip called the
"internationalized" version that does display a whole bunch of additional
characters that's in the release.  The additional characters use the
ascii codes between 0x80 and 0xff.  I forget what the program's called --
either "isozip" or "zip.int", I think.  For now, it can only use the
single built-in font that's a little bit larger than the default font,
and with the additional characters, some of the display optimization
code can't work, so the display performance isn't quite so fast.

It's not really internationalized; that's a bad name.  It just uses the
ISO character set, and can't possibly be used for asian fonts, etc.  I'm
also not sure what sorts of contortions you'll have to go through to
actually print any documents you may create.

You can remap keys on your keyboard using /usr/bin/X11/modmap so you
can insert the characters directly without the <Escape> or <Control-v>
monkey-business.  (Unfortunately, there aren't a lot of free keys left --
if you decide you don't use macros, the F1-F12 keys are good, or you
could use keys on the numeric key pad.)

The isozip program is not nearly as thoroughtly tested, but it seems
solid.  I've never gotten a bug report for it that was not also a bug
in the standard version of zip.
From: mohsen@pele.csd.sgi.com (Mohsen Hosseini)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: 4d70 memory max?
Date: 21 Aug 92 20:31:59 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.

In article <1992Aug20.1152.18635@dosgate>, "alan kennedy" <alan.kennedy@canrem.com> writes:
|> We want to upgrade the memory on our 4D70. Right now its at 12MB. I'm
|> finding that is would be easier to get confidential information from the
|> CIA than it is to get "free" info from SGI. "I'm sorry sir, you only
|> have software support... etc"
|> 
|> Can anyone tell me what the maximum amount of memory a 4D70G can have?
|> 
|> Thanks in advance.
|> Alan Kennedy
|> Senior Animator
|> The Image Group
|> alan.kennedy@canrem.com
|> --
|> Canada Remote Systems  - Toronto, Ontario/Detroit, MI
|> World's Largest PCBOARD System - 416-629-7000/629-7044

On a 4D70 with an IP4 board, you can have a maximun of 16Mb memory.
However, if you have an IP4.5 board, you can buy two 32MB memory boards (MXP boards)
that connect to your IP4.5 board via a fronplane connector. The MXP boards are VME 
boards and take slots 2 and 3 of your system. You can get them in 16 or 32 MB increments.
-- 
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SGI Product Support
From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: R4000 compiler directive, is there one ???
Date: 14 Aug 92 20:59:44 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA

In <1992Aug14.180101.14529@megatek.uucp> rgs@megatek.uucp (Rusty Sanders) writes:
| Net result; if you're using floating point on an R4000 you probably
| should use -mips2 -r4000 to get best performance. Does MIPS/SGI
| actually support (i.e. accept bug report calls) on the undocumented
| -r4000 switch?

I don't think so.  If so, we would have used it in the specmark
tests, more than likely.  I don't know why it isn't supported;
it may be for lack of testing, or introduction of bugs.
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Let no one tell me that silence gives consent,  |   Dave Olson
because whoever is silent dissents.             |   Silicon Graphics, Inc.
    Maria Isabel Barreno                        |   olson@sgi.com
From: mogal@deadhead.asd.sgi.com (Joshua Mogal)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: high-speed spheres renderin in VISION system ?
Keywords: VISION spheres
Date: 19 Aug 92 01:20:17 GMT
Distribution: comp.sys.sgi
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.

In article <andrey.714155980@shum>, andrey@huji.ac.il (Andrey) writes:
|> 
|>     We have 4D/320VGX workstation. I've read in SG Technical Report,
|> section 5 (5.4.32 Sphere rendering) that the VISION graphics subsystem 
|> supports high-speed rendering of high-quality spheres (without using 
|> polygon primitives). Does somebody know how to use this possibility ? 
|> The libsphere library provides only polygonal spheres, but for my 
|> application it is too slow. 
|>     Any help will be greatly appreciated !
|>   
|> Andrey Sigalov, Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
|> email: andrey@shum.huji.ac.il
|> 

The description of the "2.5D" sphere rendering in the POWER Series Technical Report refers to a technique rather than an implemented GL feature. Since images can be BLTed into the frame buffer with Z values as well as RGBA values, a pre-defined image of a sphere can be stored as a template, with the pixels farther from the center having deeper Z values. The resultant BLT into the frame buffer at the desired location of the sphere would then properly occult any spheres farther back and would be properly occ



ulted itself by nearer spheres.

Joshua Mogal
Product Manager
Advanced Graphics Division
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From: kyriazis@mistral.rdrc.rpi.edu (George Kyriazis)
Subject: Re: Has anyone ported Xview 2.0 to IRIX 4.x under X11R4?
Organization: Rensselaer Design Research Center, RPI, Troy, NY
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 16:26:32 GMT

In article <1992Aug13.160605.6968@tamsun.tamu.edu> wschmidt@cs.tamu.edu (William M Schmidt) writes:
>
>The title pretty much says it all. I need to run xview on a Silicon
>Graphics Iris 4d. X11R4 is installed, so that means xview 2.0 since
>xview 3.0 claims to need X11R5. Before I get started myself, I thought
>that I'd see if anyone has already got it running. Any pointers would
>be much appreciated.
>

Yes.  Look at wuarchive.wustl.edu in graphics/graphics/sgi-stuff/XView/xview2

  --george
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From: englund@gdstech.grumman.com (Dave Englund)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: DPS extensions to X
Date: 21 Aug 92 12:28:57 GMT

I've recently tried to do some postscript previewing on my PI 4D/25. 
Using "xspview" resulted in a FATAL ERROR and told me that a correctly
installed application resource file was needed. It told me to check my
installation and my X environment variables. So after wandering about
in TFM trying to see what was what I'm still clueless. 
I've download the "xpsv" package thinking maybe the accompanying docs
would help but again "Display PostScript required" is the wall I run
into.
I've checked my installed software and versions says:

I  dps_dev              02/04/92  Display PostScript Development
System,
                                    1.0.1
I  dps_dev.man          02/04/92  DPS Documentation
I  dps_dev.man.relnotes 02/04/92  Display PostScript Release Notes
I  dps_dev.sw           02/04/92  DPS Software
I  dps_dev.sw.dps       02/04/92  Display PostScript Development
Environment

Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!


			Dave Englund | #include <stdio.h>
	 englund@gdstech.grumman.com | main() 
		       Grumman Corp. | {
	   Corporate Research Center | 	  printf("hello, world\n");
			Bethpage, NY | }
From: davis@bedlam.asd.sgi.com (Tom Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: zip - 8 bit ascii?
Date: 12 Aug 92 18:41:07 GMT
Organization: sgi

Zip supports 8 bit characters.  If such a character appears in the
text, zip represents it as Xhh, where X is a funny-looking "x" in
a box, and hh are two hex digits.  Thus, control-C looks like:
X03, where "X" is the funny looking character.

There are a couple of ways to get non-ascii characters into the
text, neither of which is perfect, but both work fine for a few
characters.

Method 1:  Hold the Alt key down and type a (decimal) number, followed
by the Escape key.  To insert control-C, <A-3><Escape> does the
trick.  To add ascii control-Z (26 decimal), type: <A-2><A-6><Escape>.
This doesn't work for the ascii nul character, but there's a work-
around (hack around?)  Use 256 and let zip mask off the top bit; type:
<A-2><A-5><A-6><Escape>.

Method 2:  The <Control-V> character is a literal escape which will
let you get in all the ascii characters:  <C-v><C-c> inserts a literal
control-C into the text.  <C-v><C-v> adds a control-V.  If you want
a character above 127 (with the high-bit on), hold the Alt key down
when you type the second character.  Thus, to add ascii 131 = 0x83 =
control-C with the high bit on, type: <C-v><C-A-c>.  <C-A-c> means
that you hold down both the control and alt keys when you type the
"c".

You can, of course, cut and paste the characters as well, once you
get one copy into the file.  You can also use method 1 to specify
weirdo characters in search and replace strings, although currently
zip is too stupid to display them properly in the dialog boxes --
they appear there as asterisks.

It's sort of entertaining to run zip on program binaries.  If you're
VERY careful, you can change strings, etc.
From: bobg@rains.wpd.sgi.com (Bob Green)
Subject: Re: cdrom
Keywords: cdrom,sgi,os3.3.1,os3.3.2
Reply-To: bobg@rains.wpd.sgi.com (Bob Green)
Organization: sgi
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 92 14:59:19 GMT

In article <15081@umd5.umd.edu>, beach@astro.umd.edu (Eric Beach) writes:
|> 
|>    Has anybody attempted to connect a cdrom to an IRIS which uses 3.3.1 or
|> 3.3.2 as its operating system? I know this can be done very easily with 4.0 .
|> 
|>   -Rico

SGI has not shipped the drivers necessary to support CDROM in
a 3.3.1 or 3.3.2 version of IRIX.  The drivers were suitable
for prime time use.

Bob Green

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From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Subject: Re: Slow C compiler??
Organization:  Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
Distribution: comp
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 92 05:21:20 GMT

In <HARI.92Aug12135105@robios5.me.wisc.edu> hari@robios.me.wisc.edu (Kambainathan Hari) writes:
| I have a Personal Iris and about a couple of months ago we upgraded
| the Op. System. Before the Upgrade the compilation was *slow* and
| after the upgrade it has gotten *even slower*. 
| 
| Is there anything I can do about it like setting flags while using cc,
| or using a different compiler ?? Or is just a case that linking the
| X11 library and using graphics takes so much time  and nothing can be
| done about it since there is graphics in the code and hence the
| executables produced  are much longer?? Sorry I don't know enough
| about compilers to figure it out myself.

Try adding -v to your cc line, and see which compiler pass is taking
a long time.  After knowing that, you may be able to figure out
how cut down the time (or post the results for a 'typical' compile
here).
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because whoever is silent dissents.             |   Silicon Graphics, Inc.
    Maria Isabel Barreno                        |   olson@sgi.com
From: cook@bebop.esd.sgi.com (Doug Cook)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Memory Upgrade on 4d/35
Date: 18 Aug 92 16:29:35 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA


In article <92231.112241W0L@psuvm.psu.edu>, Bill Lasher <W0L@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
> I currently have 16M on my 4d/35 with 2-2M SIMS in each of the four blocks.
> Can I add memory using 8M SIMS, or do I have to stick with 2M?  Where is this
> written down?

I believe you can do this; the 4D/35 I have in my office has 48M
of memory: 1 set of 8M SIMMS, and 2 sets of 2M SIMMS.

	-Doug
From: flash@austin.lockheed.com (James W. Melton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: compiling motif programs on the Indigo.
Date: 14 Aug 92 02:23:05 GMT
Organization: "Lockheed Austin Division, 6800 Burleson Rd, Austin, TX 78744

In article <1992Aug12.001522.998@newshost.unh.edu> lah@escher.unh.edu (Lance Hartford) writes:
>Sorry if this is an FAQ, but I am trying to compile a motif program on
>the Indigo. If I link with Xm, Xt, and X11 (in that order) the program
>compiles OK. But when I try to link with Xm_s, the linker complains
>that it can't find regcmp and regex. If I include Xm_s, do I need to
>include another library also? 

Try -lPW at the end. Also, don't forget that if you are using NIS
(formerly yellow pages) at your site to include -lsun.

If these two libraries don't fall into the FAQ list, they should.
In fact, they should be written in big bold letters in the release
notes of every release.

Once you get used to including them, it won't be so bad.

-- 
Jim Melton, novice guru
email:      flash@austin.lockheed.com | "So far as we know, our
voice mail: (512) 386-4486            |  computer has never had
fax:        (512) 386-4223            |  an undetected error"
From: frite@vlsi.polymtl.ca) (Michel Besner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: compiling X/Motif with C++ v2.1.1
Date: 13 Aug 92 19:23:49 GMT
Organization: Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, lab. INFO


I'm trying to compile a program written in mixed model
with SGI's C++ v2.1.1 but for every call to a X command 
the compiler gives the next error :


	error : unexpected 1 argument for Xt...


I've tried this on a Indigo with IRIX 4.0.2 


	Is there something wrong with the compiler ?
	Do I need a higher version of IRIX ?
	Can it be done ?


	Thanx for any help


				Michel Besner, eng
				Centre de recherche
				Hopital du Sacre-Coeur
				mbesner@iris1.metal.polymtl.ca


	"Life is a big bowl of Jello-O :) :) ! "
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From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Subject: Re: Installing 4.x on 4d70GT
Keywords: IRIX4.x Install 4d70GT help reading CD
Organization:  Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
Distribution: comp.sys.sgi
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 92 21:01:20 GMT

In <joseph.714418625@isis> joseph@chem.ualberta.ca (Tom Joseph) writes:

|  The attempt to upgrade our IRIS4D/70GT to IRIX4.01 has left me 
|  frustrated and stranded. I am posting the story hoping that some
|  kind soul out there will be able to help me...
| 
|  When we ordered the upgrade we were told that SGI has switch 
|  over to CD-ROM as the distribution media and in order to get
|  the upgrade on a tape suitable for our machine we need to pay
|  extra. When the tape arrived our machine couldn't read it and
|  it turned out that it was meant for QIC150 drive while we got
|  QIC24. Now, the  sales engineer says that to install the new
|  operating system  we need to invest in either a QIC150 drive
|  or a CD-ROM reader- 

The sales engineer is wrong; please let him know that ASAP.
QIC-24 tape is still available (or was the last time I checked;
maybe they have pulled this, but if so, it wasn't announced,
and would be a major mistake; there are many customers in your
position).  Note that CD-ROM is *not* supported officially on
your system!

|  Since our IRIS is connected to a SUN by TCP/IP I am looking
|  into the possibility of using its tape drive or CD-ROM drive
|  to install the software on the IRIS. How do I read the content 
|  of the high density tape into a directory on the IRIS using the 
|  drive on the sun? Are the formats compatible? Any help or
|  suggestions will be highly appreciated.

You don't need to.  Simply specify the remote tape as the installation
device.  Most SunOS versions support the remote tape interface (/dev/rmt).
*However*, there is a nasty little problem in that the tape is byte
swapped, so you have to do a bit of hacking to replace /etc/rmt on
the sun by a program that starts the old /etc/rmt, but passes the
data commands through dd conv=swab.  Pretty messy all around.  I'd
just get the QIC-24 tape.
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Let no one tell me that silence gives consent,  |   Dave Olson
because whoever is silent dissents.             |   Silicon Graphics, Inc.
    Maria Isabel Barreno                        |   olson@sgi.com
From: senseman@ricky.brainlab.utsa.edu (David M. Senseman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Modified Monitor Cable for Indigo
Date: 15 Aug 92 15:29:52 GMT
Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio

Following DR. MATH'S suggestion, we got two free MC13077P encoder
chips from Motorola University Support. In theory we should be
able to wire up a CHEAP video encoder ($30?) for our Indigo XS-24
with SUPER-VHS output until SGI is able to ship its rumored Elan 
Video Board option (hopefully before it snows in San Antonio ;-)

What is the best way to attach an Indigo to a stand-alone
encoder without rewiring the graphics board? In the 'old' days
when monitor cables were simply 3 BNC connectors, I would have
used BNC 'T' adapters. Now that the Indigo has some "non-standard"
D-shell connector made by AMP, things are a bit more difficult.
Anyone know the AMP part number for the male and female of this
connector species?

I've heard there is a "modified" monitor cable for the Indigo that
allows it to connect to some types of printers -- presumeably
via BNC connectors. Does anyone know about this cable and it's
SGI part number? In particular, is it a "Y" cable so I don't have
to physically disconnect the monitor everytime I go into "NTSC mode"?
Could this cable also be used with an enternal encoder box?

Thanks.



-- 
David M. Senseman (senseman@lonestar.utsa.edu)
Division of Life Sciences
The University of Texas at San Antonio
From: karron@karron.med.nyu.edu (Dan Karron (karron@nyu.edu))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Tiff tools
Date: 21 Aug 92 21:27:12 GMT


Is the source for the current working (under 4.0.x) libtiff and tiff tools
around someplace ?

Pointers appreciated !

Dan.
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From: fsset@bach.lerc.nasa.gov (Scott Townsend)
Subject: New version of 'draw'
Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center [Cleveland, Ohio]
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 20:04:37 GMT

There's a new version (1.9) of 'draw' available via anonymous FTP from
swedishchef.lerc.nasa.gov in the programs/GL directory.

For those who haven't heard of 'draw', it's a simple structured drawing
program for SGI machines running IRIX 3.3 or 4.0.  It was originally
written to get familiar with SGI's GL.  The code often isn't pretty, but
it's usually effective.  (for reference, I'm _not_ a graphics programmer)
One advantage to 'draw' over some other programs is that it opens the
entire screen with no borders.  This is handy in combination with screen
printers. (this is in the default landscape mode, there is also a
portrait mode in this version)

The distribution includes a hacked version of David Blythe's popup menu
code.  Bugs are most likely mine.

'draw' isn't Showcase by any stretch of the imagination, but for those
without Showcase it might be useful.  Some people here with Showcase
still use 'draw' for some applications.

I'd appreciate hearing of any improvements people might make.  Also, if
you make a derivative work I'd appreciate it if you change the email address
used in the Suggestion Box.

-- 
Scott Townsend,  Sverdrup Technology Inc.  NASA Lewis Research Center Group
fsset@bach.lerc.nasa.gov
From: stanj@ferrari.corp.sgi.com (Stan Jensen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: enscript on SGI
Date: 21 Aug 92 18:48:11 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.

In article <1992Aug20.213641.4463@news.acns.nwu.edu>, dsk@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Daniel Katz) writes:
|> I'm looking for a version of enscript that will run on my PI 4D25.
|> Is there such a thing out there, anywhere?
|> 
|> Dan
|> -- 
|> Dan Katz                                                       dsk@nwu.edu
|> Dept. of Electrical Engineering                             1(708)491-8887
|> Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208                E pur si muove

Call SGI Express @ 1-800-800-7441 and ask about SC4-LPS-4.0.1 (Laser
Printer Support) which includes the enscript program from Adobe Systems.
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From: scotth@hoshi.corp.sgi.com (Scott Henry)
Subject: Re: 4d70 memory max?
Organization: Silicon Graphics Inc, Mountain View, CA
Distribution: comp
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 14:31:52 GMT


>>>>> In article <1992Aug20.1152.18635@dosgate>, "alan kennedy" <alan.kennedy@canrem.com> writes:

kennedy> Can anyone tell me what the maximum amount of memory a 4D70G can have?

16MB (one more set of the SIMMs thatare alread in there). The only way
to get more than 16MB is to get a new CPU board, which I think also
involves a chassis upgrade, `cause the new backplane you'd need won't
fit in the existing chassis...

=-=-=-=

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From: steve@pitacat.math.cwru.edu (Steven H. Izen)
Subject: Re: emacs via remote login
Organization: Math Department, Case Western Reserve University
Distribution: comp.sys.sgi
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 92 16:37:15 GMT

In article <BRUGGINK.92Aug13105217@neep.engr.wisc.edu>, bruggink@neep.engr.wisc.edu (Dennis Bruggink) writes:
> 
> These emacs binaries  work fine when I'm sitting at the (indigo) console,
>  but when I log-in via telnet using a Macintosh (which is not
>  running X window) and try to use emacs, I get the message:
> 
> X server not responding.  Check your DISPLAY environment variable.
> 
> 
> So evidently I'm sposed to turn off X (?) or have some kind of emacs
> config file/command, or do I have to recompile emacs, or ???
> Thanks...
>

Try:
	emacs -nw. 

-- 
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From: sasa3d@morisot.unx.sas.com (Ali Dogrusoz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: NFS between 3.3.x <-> 4.0.x
Keywords: timeo
Date: 14 Aug 92 18:27:55 GMT
Organization: SAS Institute Inc.
Originator: sasa3d@morisot.unx.sas.com


Here is the situation we are in
  A Crimson (4.0.4) with a 1.6Gb + 2 X 1Gb(external) Drives acting as
  a file server.

  ~12 PI's running some flavor of 3.3 acting as clients

We are using the PIs for compiles and loads (Why we are using the PIs
and not the Crimson or an indigo is a very long story, and I believe
that it can not be resolved until SVR4). 

Anyway here is the problem. On random occasions (does not look like it
is related to the load on the server) when our source management 
utilities are looking for source or object files at several different
levels, it fails to find em. You probably can imagine the outcome. I increased
the timeo to 20 from the default 7 they still happen. Looked at nfsstat
no bad calls!!

Has anyone experienced a problem like this??

Thanks

Ali


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