HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: converse@expo.lcs.mit.EDU (Donna Converse)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Reparenting
Date: 12 Aug 92 16:22:53 GMT
Organization: X Consortium, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science


[Something about XtTranslateCoords returning erroneous information after
 some repositioning of a withdrawn Shell window].

Please, when you post, include the release number and patch level of the
library you are using, and/or say if it is from the MIT X Consortium or
identify the product vendor.  Otherwise, it is just a guessing game, which
is not fun.  Better yet, file a bug report with the vendor, along with
a clear description of the problem and a sample program demonstrating the
problem.  If you don't do this, it's just random luck if someone has time
to think about the problem and to answer it properly.

Something similar to what you describe -- I can't tell whether it really
addresses your problem or not -- was fixed in lib/Xt/Shell.c RCS revision
number 1.120 and this was distributed in one of the public patches to R5.


Donna Converse
MIT X Consortium
From: sheer@sapphirepdsf.ssc.gov (Irwin Sheer)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
Subject: Re: HP's quasi-X setup
Date: 20 Aug 92 13:59:18 GMT
Organization: Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory

I found an even more elegant way around the HP 'vue' problem.  If you put
something like the following in your .vueprofile file: 

#!/bin/sh
#
# .vueprofile
# I.Sheer <sheer@sscvx1>
#
xrdb -load .Xdefaults			# load X window resources
xinitcolormap				# initialize color map
xsetroot -solid blue			# set color of root window
xterm -C -icon -title "Console" &	# start console xterm as icon
xclock &				# start clock
xcal &					# start calendar
xload &					# start load monitor
xhpcalc -iconic &                       # start calculator as icon
xterm -ls &                             # start login xterm
mwm
exit
# end of script

when it hits the exit you get logged off before vue is ever started.

This is superior to setting the resource:

vuesession*wmStartupCommand: /usr/bin/X11/mwm

since the later forces you to terminate your session with a rather 
ungracefull <shift> <crtl> <reset>.

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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
From: xcpslf@decsrv.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (stephen l favor)
Subject: x3270 on AIX
Reply-To: xcpslf@oryx.com
Organization: Oryx Energy Co., Dallas, Texas.
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 20:51:14 GMT

Has anyone compiled x3270 on AIX 3.2 and obtained a working copy?
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
From: newkerk@zso.dec.com (Oscar Newkerk)
Subject: Re: Automated Testing of X Applications (REPOST)
Reply-To: newkerk@zso.dec.com (Oscar Newkerk)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 01:16:35 GMT


In article <1992Aug19.180541.18966@adobe.com>, vmarsch@adobe.com (Vonn
Marsch) writes:
|>Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
|>From: vmarsch@adobe.com (Vonn Marsch)
|>Subject: Automated Testing of X Applications (REPOST)
|>Organization: Adobe Systems Incorporated
|>
|>
|>Dear Friends,
|>
|>I need advice, caveats, recommendations, and anecdotes concerning
|>automated
|>testing of X applications.  Specifically, has anyone had any
|>experience
|>(or know someone who has had experience) with XRunner or Ferret?
|>
|>Many thanks in advance,
|>
|>Vonn Marsch
|>Adobe Systems, Inc.
|>vmarsch@adobe.com
|>

I haven't used either one, but I know that XRunner at least depends on doing
comparisons of saved bit maps to verify the operation of your application.  
This can tend to be VERY slow.  There is another company you might want to 
get some information from called Segue Softare Inc.  The have a GUI test
tool that they are just releasing that supports X, Motif, SUN, and MS Windows. 

The basic idea is that rather than recording and saving bitmaps, they have a
script language and a driver that inserts keyboard and mouse events into your
application's event queue throught a library you link into your app.

Then the script can 'drive' your program and compare the internal state of
the widgets (screen location, contents of text widgets, etc) instead of 
bitmaps of screen images.  They also support using the same test script to
drive the app on different window systems.

Seque Software Inc.
25  Shirley Street.
West Newton Mass  02165
(617) 964-7565
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
From: mo@gizmo.bellcore.com (Michael O'Dell)
Subject: Xterm with Zterm???
Keywords: 
 
Reply-To: mo@bellcore.com
Organization: Center for Chaotic Repeatabilty
Distribution: world 
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 92 21:01:58 GMT

has anyone hacked the zterm file transfer protocol into XTerm??
what! High Heresey you scream!  well, maybe, but firing up another
window or ftp or something else just to snarf a remote file is
a pain, particularly when your connection transits a firewall
gateway and arranging an ftp session is a half-hour ordeal.
ideally it would work so that a telnet or rlogin session started
in the window could be used just like a dial-in session.

yes, it's crufty, but boy, would it save me a lot of grief....

	Yours for bigger and fluffier cruft,
	-Mike O'Dell

Bellcore?? Bellcore isn't allowed opinions - these be mine.
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
From: odiug@messua.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Guido Muesch)
Subject: Re: WANTED: PostScript Viewer/HP720/XWindows
Organization: Rechnerbetrieb Informatik  /  RWTH Aachen
Date: 20 Aug 92 12:47:28 GMT

marzari@sissa.it writes:



>I need a viewer for Postscript files that runs under Xwindows.
>Actually I would like to use it on a HP720 workstation.

>Any useful hint will be appreciated;

>many thanks in advance,

>		nicola marzari	

>		marzari@tsmi19.sissa.it

How about Ghostscript? It has an X11-driver build in. Or use it
together with Ghostview (an X11 frontend for Ghostscript). It should
be available at all GNU or X11 ftp-sites.

Guido
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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
From: roihar@cc4.crl.aecl.ca
Subject: UNIRAS agxtool
Organization: AECL RESEARCH
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 18:08:18 GMT

Anybody out there using this graphics toolkit for anything approaching
interactive graphical data display and analysis? I'd like to discuss
programming strategy...
Please e-mail to roihar@crl.aecl.ca
From: matt@bacchus.esa.OZ.AU (Matthew Atterbury)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
Subject: Re: New Software Eng programs: xspread, xftp, xdump, xnetmon,...
Date: 13 Aug 92 22:28:53 GMT
Organization: Expert Solutions Australia.


In article <1992Aug7.145838.14008@uwm.edu> jimj@miller.cs.uwm.edu (James Jegers) writes:
>     For those of you who missed the original postings about the
>     Software Enginerring programs here is a new post.
      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

    I _LIKE_ it! Such an apt description of the industry today!
    (you're right, I am such a cynic :-).

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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
From: roberts@studguppy.lanl.gov (Doug Roberts)
Subject: Re: Plotter Widgets V6.0
Organization: Technology Modeling and Analysis, LANL-A7
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 23:50:43 GMT


In article <1992Aug18.141437.2765@uni-paderborn.de> klin@uni-paderborn.de (Peter Klingebiel) writes:

> 
>       Announcement of the AthenaTools Plotter Widget Set Version 6.0
> 
> After distribution of plotter v6-beta I did some bug fixes and added a lot
> of new features to the plotter widgets. They seem to run stable on X11R4
> and X11R5 with Xaw and Xm. For changes from V6-beta to V6.0 see below.
> 
> N.B. If there is anyone in U.S. who receives the plotter widgets, please
> put them to export.lcs.edu. Thanks.
> 

I put version 6.0 in export.lcs.mit.edu:contrib as

-rw-r--r--  1 ftp        140078 Aug 18 16:52 plotter.afm.tar.Z
-rw-r--r--  1 ftp        239265 Aug 18 16:52 plotter.doc.tar.Z
-rw-r--r--  1 ftp         11619 Aug 18 16:52 plotter.v60.README
-rw-r--r--  1 ftp        373521 Aug 18 16:52 plotter.v60.tar.Z

--Doug
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From: mark@drd.com (Resident.Alien)
Subject: Re: Wingz an Xwindows app?
Organization: DRD Corporation
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 02:15:30 GMT

In article <46287@shamash.cdc.com> eldred@hare.udev.cdc.com (Doug Eldred) writes:
>Wingz is available, COMPATIBLY, on Macintosh, Windows, and Unix.  I don't have a complete list of Unix implementations supported, but it includes Sun, HP, Mips,
>Control Data, and probably most of the other "wildly popular" platforms.


Does anybody know whether it talks easily to other rdbms than Informix
(like, for example, Sybase?).  If not, is there a 3rd party package that
gives the access (like Lotus DataLens)?
-- 
mark.lawrence@drd.com                                     (918)743-3013
DRD Corp., 5506 South Lewis Ave., Tulsa, OK 74105         (918)745-9037 fax
From: koreth@spud.Hyperion.COM (Steven Grimm)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
Subject: Sun X-windows CD player program posted to alt.sources
Date: 16 Aug 1992 12:36:33 -0700
Organization: Hyperion, Mountain View, CA, USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: spud.Hyperion.COM

I've just posted WorkMan, my X-windows CD player program for Suns, to
alt.sources.  It requires XView 3.0 (which comes with OpenWindows 3 and
is available in the X11R5 distribution.)

Comments, questions, and suggestions are welcome.

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Xref: sparky comp.windows.x.apps:784 comp.windows.misc:1154 comp.windows.x.intrinsics:190
From: s9874203@titan.ucc.umass.edu (s9874203)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps,comp.windows.misc,comp.windows.x.intrinsics
Subject: Re: tart up X-window through 9600 modem
Date: 16 Aug 92 15:06:29 GMT
Article-I.D.: nic.1992Aug16.150629.21672
Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst

In article <1992Aug10.103423.20196@hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk> b073766@hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk (Great Era) writes:
>Has anyone successfully started up X-Window
>at a local 486 PC from any unix system through
>9600 modem? If yes, could you share some information
>with me. I will be very appreciate it if you could
>send me a e-mail and tell me how to do it.
>
>Thanks.
>
>Great Era.
>
>

Me too. Post it if possible. Thanks.
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
From: feizal@hermes.chpc.utexas.edu (Feizal Mirza)
Subject: Looking for a spline generation program
Organization: The University of Texas System - CHPC
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 92 19:31:41 GMT

Hi

I am looking for a spline generation program. The thing is that I want
to replace XDrawLine in my application to something like
XDrawSpline !!.


Feizal
UT-CHPC
Austin
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The University of Texas System                      Austin, Texas 78758
From: kale@aelle.cs.odu.edu (Vijay S. Kale)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
Subject: Source Code for a Drawing Program in X/Motif
Date: 17 Aug 92 18:21:27 GMT
Organization: Old Dominion University

Hi Folks,

 Could any one out there give me pointers to any info/source on
 a code that would allow to draw and manipulate simple diagrams
 with lines, arcs, texts in an X/Motif enviromnment.

 Young/Brain books do give some info but they do not provide
 routines to select the objects and manipulate them.

 I will very much appreciate.

 Thanks.

..Vijay
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
From: donm@cs.UAlberta.CA (Don Murray)
Subject: Xfig and eps 
Keywords: xfig eps
Organization: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 20:09:48 GMT

Hi.

I am trying to use xfig 2.1.3 and images stored as .eps files.
There is a class of object in xfig called epsobject.
I can make these objects in my .fig file without problem, and
load in .eps files so that I can see them in the xfig application.
However, when I try to export this figure to a post script file,
I get something which is just not accepted.  If I gs the result,
it is all grey, and if I print it, I get a post script error.

Does anyone have any ideas on this?
Has anyone used this import/export of eps files successfully?
The .eps files are images and are bitmapped only.

Thanks

Don
From: hawkes@whizkids (Steven C. Hawkes)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
Subject: XTerm with DEC 8-bit CSI support
Date: 18 Aug 92 16:42:54 GMT
Reply-To: gdfwc3!hawkes@central.sun.com
Distribution: comp.windows.x.apps
Organization: General Dynamics, Fort Worth Division

I need to talk through a terminal emulator to a board that only supports 8-bit
VT320 mode.  Does anyone know if XTerm or any of its clones/replacements
support the DEC 8-bit CSI control sequences (i.e., 0x9b instead of ESC [)?  I
looked at the XTerm source and it appears to be aware of CSI, but does not
seem to support it in actual use.  Any pointers?  Everything I've seen so far
only supports VT102's.

Thanks.
--
Steve Hawkes                             General Dynamics, Fort Worth Division
                                         Mail Zone 5982
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gdfwc3!hawkes@central.sun.com            Fort Worth, TX 76101
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
From: J.K.Wight@newcastle.ac.uk (Jim Wight)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
Subject: Official patch for aXe 3.0 on export
Date: 21 Aug 92 15:27:43 GMT
Organization: University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, NE1 7RU

I've placed aXe-3.0.1.tar.Z and the patch aXe-3.0-3.0.1.patch.Z
bringing 3.0 up to 3.0.1 on export. The patch fixes some minor
bugs that have been reported and makes a change that has been
suggested by a number of people to the behaviour of the file
selector, which is that the directory that is initially displayed
is determined differently. It is now either

 o the directory of the file already being edited in the buffer, e.g. 
   as a result of a file having been specified on the command line or
   loaded via the minibuffer; or

 o the directory associated with the parent buffer of the buffer
   owning the file selector. The parent buffer is the buffer that
   was visible when New or New + Load was selected from either the
   Window or Buffer menu. The association is made at the time of
   creation of the window/buffer; or

 o the working directory associated with the invocation of aXe, i.e.
   the position at the previous version of aXe. 

Here is the standard blurb for those who do not know about aXe.

                           ...oooOOOooo...

aXe is a simple to use text editor for X that represents a significant
improvement over xedit. Also built around the Athena Text Widget it
features, amongst other things,

   o multiple windows
   o multiple buffers
   o default menu interface
   o optional button interface, with choice and layout of buttons 
     under user control
   o minibuffer for expert use and access to external filters
   o provision for defining a keyboard macro
   o geometry specification and resizing in terms of characters
   o file selection via a browser
   o knowledge of line numbers
   o parenthesis matching
   o ability to change font
   o easy entry of control codes
   o xterm-like keymap feature
   o easy runtime setting of selected preferences (resources)
   o server mode
   o both brief and comprehensive on-line help
   o collection of reusable widgets that embody the functionality of aXe

aXe was developed on a Sun SLC under SunOS 4.1.1 running MIT X11
Release 5 (patchlevel 9) and has been ported to an Encore Multimax
running UMAX 4.3 in the same environment. An attempt has been made to
cater for Release 4 (patchlevel 18) but there is a major problem that
has yet to be resolved. I have no experience of porting to System V.

aXe is available by anonymous ftp from export.lcs.mit.edu (18.24.0.12)
initially, and probably in due course from several other ftp sites.
Check your nearest using xarchie.

If you can't ftp, try sending email to ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com with the
word "help" alone in your message body.  You will receive instructions
on how to ftp via email.

Jim
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Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, United Kingdom.            Fax: +44 91 222 8232
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
From: sph1@cbnewse.cb.att.com (stephen.p.hill)
Subject: circuit design / PC board layout progs?
Organization: AT&T
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 22:37:06 GMT


Does anyoue know of sharware or PD X-apps that will allow 
you to design electronic circuits and/or printed circuit 
boards?  I have an interest only for a hobby, so commercial 
is out.  Likewise shareware with too high a registration ($80).

I remember using a commercial package for the PC (Orcad ?) in 
school that did schematics.  I would like anything even 
remotely similar.  

I am running X on my 386-Linux PC at home.  I can complie 
X-apps (or at least try!).

Stephen Hill
sph@ihlpe.ih.att.com
sph1@cbnewse.att.com
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
Subject: xrn app-defaults file
From: byron@bart.hsc.ucalgary.ca (Byron Draudson)
Date: 11 Aug 92 16:10:22 MDT
Reply-To: byron@yogi.hsc.ucalgary.ca
Distribution: world
Organization: Radiology, Foothills Hospital

Could someone mail me an example of the app-defaults file for xrn?
Thanks a bunch.

-- byron
________________________________________________________________________
Byron Draudson, Systems Manager               byron@yogi.hsc.ucalgary.ca
Radiology, Foothills Hospital, Calgary, Alberta, Canada   (403) 670-2442
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
From: jmr@caph.rtp.semi.harris.com (Mike Reid x636)
Subject: WANTED: Scheduler/Project Manager
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 16:44:41 GMT
Organization: Harris Semiconductor, Research Triangle Park, NC

Is there an application out there to help schedule resources directed
toward completion of a task? Sort of like the MS-DOG program Microsoft 
Project? 

I would appreciate any pointers.

Thanks,
-- 
Mike Reid (jmr@rtp.semi.harris.com)
Harris Corporation, Research Triangle Park, NC
(919) 549-3636
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
From: fritzz@lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu (fritz zaucker)
Subject: Re: Plotter Widgets V6.0
Originator: fritzz@ko.ldgo.columbia.edu
Organization: Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory, Columbia University, New
	York
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 22:58:45 GMT

In article <1992Aug18.141437.2765@uni-paderborn.de> klin@uni-paderborn.de (Peter Klingebiel) writes:


	 Announcement of the AthenaTools Plotter Widget Set Version 6.0

   After distribution of plotter v6-beta I did some bug fixes and added a lot
   of new features to the plotter widgets. They seem to run stable on X11R4
   and X11R5 with Xaw and Xm. For changes from V6-beta to V6.0 see below.

   N.B. If there is anyone in U.S. who receives the plotter widgets, please
   put them to export.lcs.edu. Thanks.

I just wanted to put it in contrib/  on export.lcs.mit.edu, but I was
too late. It's there already. Just wanted to let everybody know.

Fritz
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
From: witr@rwwa.COM (Robert Withrow)
Subject: Wanted: X based schematic capture and associated programs
Reply-To: witr@rwwa.com
Organization: R.W. Withrow Associates
Distribution: usa
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 16:49:27 GMT

Is there any non commercial schematic capture and PC board generating
software available?

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 Tel: +1 617 598 4480, Fax: +1 617 598 4430, Net: witr@rwwa.COM
From: et11hkh@sbusol.rz.uni-sb.de (Rainer Zewe)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
Subject: X-Windows graphic debugger
Date: 18 Aug 92 10:34:56 GMT

Is there a public domain graphic debugger available that runs
under X-Windows, e.g. a graphic interface for dbx ?

Thanks for help !

-------------------------------------------------------------

Rainer Zewe
Universitaet des Saarlandes
Lehrstuhl fuer Energieversorgung
D-6600 Saarbruecken
Germany

et11hkh@sbusol.rz.uni-sb.de
From: fred@dip1.ee.uct.ac.za (Fred Hoare)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
Subject: Xfig and HPGL
Date: 14 Aug 92 14:06:55 GMT
Reply-To: fred@dip1.ee.uct.ac.za
Organization: University of Cape Town

Hi

I have just got xfig 2.1.4 and am having a small problem.
We have got an HP laserjet IIIp connected to our Sun. Now the HPIIIp
understands HPGL and I was therefore very happy to see that xfig
could export HPGL(IBMGL) files. BUT when I try fig2dev gives the *error 
unkown graphics language ibmgl*.  The version of transfig that I have is
2.1.4 patchlevel  0 and having just spent more than half an hour looking
through various archie servers looking for a later version I have given up
and am turning to netnews for an answer to my problems.

I would appreciate it if anyone who could help me with this problem
would supply an answer for me - preferably by email as our newsfeed
is not that reliable.

Thanks in advance
Fred

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Image Processing Laboratory
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
University of Cape Town,  South Africa
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
From: books@fsunuc.physics.fsu.edu (Roger Books)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
Subject: WANTED: bdftosnf source
Date: 13 Aug 92 12:14:02 GMT
Organization: FSU Physics Dept.

Well, after finally getting the menu fonts with getbdf I found that DesqView/
X doesn't include  bdftosnf, although it uses .snf fonts.  None of my Dec 
equipment seems to have it either.

If someone could either let me know where to find the source to bdftosnf I 
would appreciate it.  I don't have 20+MB free to unpack the mit source 
distribution.

Thanks

		Roger
		books@fsunuc.physics.fsu.edu
From: marzari@sissa.it
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
Subject: WANTED: PostScript Viewer/HP720/XWindows
Date: 20 Aug 92 09:32:28 GMT
Organization: Intnl School for Adv Studies



I need a viewer for Postscript files that runs under Xwindows.
Actually I would like to use it on a HP720 workstation.

Any useful hint will be appreciated;

many thanks in advance,

		nicola marzari	

		marzari@tsmi19.sissa.it
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps