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From: dave@imax.imax.com (Dave Martindale)
Subject: Re: 4.0.5 A/B/C/D ???
Organization: Imax Corporation, Mississauga Canada
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 18:53:10 GMT

Interestingly, I just received a pair of 4.0.5A CD's today, even though
I didn't explicitly ask for them.  The accompanying letter reads:

---------------------------------------------------------------------
Dear Valued Customer:

Enclosed please find your 4.0.5 update(s).  This new O/S version is
not being distributed to our entire contract customer base.  Rather,
we are only "pushing" 4.0.5 to select customers/systems who have
certain options within their configuration which were adversely affected
by 4.0.1.  These options include:

	. Dials and Buttons
	. Genlock
	. 8 Bit PI
	. Crimson
	. Elan
	. Indigo Starter Systems with E-Prom Problem

For any other systems requiring the 4.0.5 update, we will be handling
these on a fix on fail basis via our Technical Assistance Center Call
Tracking Process.  Please remember that if you log a call, it is
necessary to provide a system serial number which has CD or Tape
as its media type on your contract as we do not ship software for
systems which have a media type of Right-To-Use (RTU).  This will
enable us to service you better as we will be able to expedite your
shipment.
---------------------------------------------------------------------

So, people with certain hardware configurations are getting 4.0.5
automatically (in my case, Elan graphics).  I'm happy....

	Dave
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: cohen@lindsay.psychiatry.uiowa.edu
Subject: Re: Dog, Arena, Battlezone, and Networks
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 18:45:29 GMT
Organization: University of Iowa

In article <32325@adm.brl.mil> blbates@aero36.larc.nasa.gov (Brent L. Bates
ViGYAN AAD/TAB) writes:
>
>     Dog used to flood the network with broadcast messages, making it very
>network unfriendly.  I believe that has been corrected in IRIX > 3.3.  Arena
>seems to also flood the network in IRIX 3.3.2.  Has this been corrected in
>IRIX > 4.0?  What about this `battlezone', or what ever it is called, has it
>been made more network friendly too?  Thanks.
>
>  Brent L. Bates				Phone:(804) 864-2854
>  M.S. 361			  		  FAX:(804) 864-8469
>  NASA Langley Research Center
>  Hampton, Virginia  23681-0001
>  E-mail: blbates@aero36.larc.nasa.gov or blbates@aero00.larc.nasa.gov
>


Is there a way to make dog run over separate subnets?  (such as xxx.xxx.87.xxx
and xxx.xxx.85.xxx)?

thanks
From: totsuka@av.crl.sony.co.jp (Takashi Totsuka)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: gcc2.2.2 on Iris Crimson (HELP!)
Date: 27 Aug 92 23:29:40 GMT
	<1992Aug27.131203.11184@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>
Distribution: comp
Organization: SONY Corporation, JAPAN
In-reply-to: steve@maths.warwick.ac.uk's message of 27 Aug 92 13:12:03 GMT

In article <1992Aug27.131203.11184@dcs.warwick.ac.uk> steve@maths.warwick.ac.uk (Steve Rumsby) writes:


 |In article <TOTSUKA.92Aug27145458@avaia.av.crl.sony.co.jp>, totsuka@av.crl.sony.co.jp (Takashi Totsuka) writes:
 |> 
 |> 	Is there anyone who has successfully installed GCC(G++)2.2.2 and
 |> 	libg++2.2.2 on IRIS Crimson ?
 |> 
 |> 	I am having a strange problem with one of the test program
 |> 	(tComplex.cc).  The sqrt() method of Complex class returns
 |> 	different value each time it is called with the same constant
 |> 	arguments...  Specifying -mcpu=r4000 didn't help.
 |> 
 |> 	I appreciate any suggestions. Thanks in advance.
 |>
 |Same things happens on a R3000 Indigo too. I finally trace the problem
 |to the hypot function in the C library (SGI's library, not glibc) which
 |was returning bizarre results, but only after printing a double on cout!
 |I couldn't see any way that these two functions could interfere with
 |each other, so I gave up at that point. If anybody has any ideas about
 |what might be going on, I'd love to hear them.
 |
 |As above, this is all compiling libg++-2.2.2 with gcc-2.2.2.

	I also played aound with Complex::sqrt() and noticed funny return
	value of hypot() in SGI libm.a.  However, when I check hypot() alone
	with a simple test program, it just works fine (with native cc and
	gcc, with -g and -O).  On the other hand, it is true that replacing
	hypot() with its definition (sqrt(x*x + y*y)) fixes the problem.

	I suspect G++ is doing some unnecessary conversion or it has
	some problem in procedure call/return...
--

Takashi Totsuka      totsuka@av.crl.sony.co.jp
		     SONY Corp.
From: john@erin.jsc.nasa.gov (John Fwu/MIT)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: 4.0.5 Font Manager Problems?
Date: 28 Aug 92 20:38:34 GMT

In article <1992Aug27.202451.14244@odin.corp.sgi.com>, ib@ivan.esd.sgi.com (Ivan Bach) writes:
|> In <1992Aug26.232018.19122@news.iastate.edu>, boylan@pi.eai.iastate.edu 
|> (Terran Boylan) complained that his program could not find the Times Roman
|> font after he upgraded his machine to IRIX 4.0.5.  The problem was that
|> his program was linked with an unshared version of the IRIS Font Manager

       ^^^^^^^
In our case, the "xwsh" window can't found the right fonts.  It end up using
a font with diff size.  Users found this by aware the window size changed
after we upgraded to IRIX 4.0.5.

|> (libfm) library, i.e., he specified -lfm on a compile and link command line.
|> If you upgrade your system and you encounter a problem with a program that 
|> was linked with unshared libraries, you need to relink that program. 
|> ....(deleted)
|>
|> Ivan Bach, ib@sgi.com

                 ^^^
Hope SGI aware this is a problem, not a user mistake.

------------
J. John Fwu (john@trillian.jsc.nasa.gov)
Integrated Graphics Operations and Analysis Laboratory (IGOAL)
NASA JSC, ER6, Houston, TX 77058  | Voice: (713) 483-8101 FAX: 483-3204
_______________________________________________________________________
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: davea@quasar.wpd.sgi.com (David B.Anderson)
Subject: Re: gcc2.2.2 on Iris Crimson (HELP!)
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 16:25:46 GMT

In article <1992Aug28.124816.12065@dcs.warwick.ac.uk> steve@maths.warwick.ac.uk (Steve Rumsby) writes:
>Can somebody with the source to SGI's hypot (like somebody in SGI maybe:-)
>have a look and see if there's anything an external function can do that
>will break hypot. This is all very strange...

I looked at the source for 4.0.5 (3.10 compilers hypot.s) and glanced at
hypot.s for 2.20 (4.0.2-4.0.5, 2.20 compilers).

Nothing in hypot references anything but its arguments and its local stack.

[ David B. Anderson  davea@wpd.sgi.com  Bldg-9  MS 9U530   extension 1548 ]
[ Moving to 10U with the rest of the compiler folks Sep 4-5-6 1992.       ]

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: story@sgi.com (David (Duis) Story)
Subject: Re: Seiko ColorPoint Professional
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 18:50:20 GMT

In article <1992Aug25.211918.6423@news.uiowa.edu> randy@caesar.iaf.uiowa.edu (randy frank) writes:
>Hello,
>	Does anyone know if future IRIX releases will support
>the Seiko ColorPoint Professional (300DPI 24Bit Dye Sublimation)
>printer in system software in the future?  

No new printers will be added to the base IRIX OS printer support.
Support for any and all new printers will appear in future versions of
Impressario, SGI's new printing software system.  Part of Impressario
is a Developer's Kit which is intended for third party vendors to add
support for their own printers, freeing SGI to improve the base
printing software.  

>	One key factor (due to its current lack of PostScript
>support) for our purchase would be that IRIX would support the
>printer (or I could buy an SGI supportted addon product that
>would).

Seiko has expressed a great deal of interest in supporting their
printers under Impressario, although I do not believe they have made
an official announcement.  If you'd like the name of the right person
to pester about this, call Jeff Hayman, Product Support Manager at
Seiko USA's Graphic Devices and Systems Division.  His number is
408-922-5840.

Cheers,

David Story                        	        Silicon Graphics, Inc.
story@bent.wpd.sgi.com				Mountain View, California
From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: re-organizing file systems
Keywords: file systems
Date: 27 Aug 92 04:52:35 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA

In <9827@fs3.cam.nist.gov> gpfrn@cam.nist.gov (Glenn_P._Forney_x6884) writes:

| when i originally set up my disk (a non-system disk),
| I partitioned
| it into three separate file systems.  i thought
| it was a good idea at the time.  i would
| like to go back to one file system.  i use the new dump
| commanded provided with 4.0 to do backups.
| one backup for each file system. my question is
| how best to back up my system before consolidating
| three file systems into one.  can the three dump
| files (one for each file system) be used to restore
| back to the new consolidated file system?

Yes; just restore each one in turn.  restore works through the
filesystem, and relative to the current directory, so there
should be no problem.
--
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
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: tomi@chem.ualberta.ca (Tomi Joseph)
Subject: Help with network connection
Summary: Cannot connect to internet after upgrading to IRIX4.0.1
Keywords: TCP/IP network IRIX4.0.1
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
Distribution: comp.sys.sgi
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 17:38:39 GMT

 After upgrading to IRIX4.0.1 our IRIS4D/70GT is not able
 to access remote sytems beyond the local subdomain. Do I
 have to modify any networks files, other than restarting
 the TCP/IP option from the System Manager?. Any help or
 hint will be highly appreciated.

 Tom
 tomi@sunfun.chem.ualberta.ca

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: melody@grad00.math.ncsu.edu (Patrick Melody)
Subject: nicer text editor for SGIs
Organization: NCSU Mathematics Dept.
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1992 00:20:11 GMT

Some time ago someone (I believe from SGI) posted the name of an ftp site
that had a nice graphical text editor for SGI systems.  I think it was claimed
that this editor was used by people at SGI. I cannot find any text editor at 
sgi.sgi.com, and was wondering if someone can point me in the right direction.
Thanks, and sorry I don't have any more specific details.

Patrick Melody
From: wsj@triton.wpd.sgi.com (Bill Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: 3.10 Based C++/Fortran 77
Date: 3 Sep 92 23:20:29 GMT
Reply-To: wsj@wpd.sgi.com
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.

In article <1992Sep2.171736.10178@spatial.com>, alek@spatial.com (Alek O. Komarnitsky) writes:
|> OK, so if I understand correctly, the difference between the 2.x and 3.x
|> compilers is that they generate better R4000 code, but there is nothing
|> wrong with using the 2.x compilers (?)  I'm a bit leary of putting the 3.x
|> compilers on - reference recent posting about C++ bug. BTW, is there any
|> easy way to run both simultaneousely?

In general, you'll find the 3.10 compilers to be significantly more reliable
than the 2.20 compilers.  There is no easy way to run both simultaneously.
Mixing and matching 2.20 pieces with 3.10 pieces will not work, in general.

|> WRT C++, what version of AT&T cfront/etc. is the 3.10 release based upon?
|> If not AT&TC++3.0, is there any timetable when that will become available?

As bean already indicated, the 3.10 C++ is based upon AT&TC++3.0; AT&TC++2.1
is still available by using CC -v2.

-- 
Bill Johnson                    9U-530                   wsj@wpd.sgi.com
Silicon Graphics, Inc.                             Office:(415) 390-1440
Systems Software Technology Center                    Fax:(415) 969-2314
From: dave@adcs00.fnal.gov (David Richardson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Bad news: Showcase
Date: 27 Aug 92 16:54:05 GMT


Opening a recently created Showcase (v2.0) document produced the following
message:

	Bad news: fatal error
	"fromfb->next & & fromfb->next->type == FINALFB & &
	No editing changes were lost.

The most recent change I made to the document involved rearranging the pages.
Is this related to that modification?  I've done this before without any
problems.  Fortunately, I had a .bak version of the file to fall back on.

Any ideas as to what this means before I call the TAC?

Thankyou,
Dave Richardson <dave@adcs00.fnal.gov>
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

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	Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.
                                                -- Sydney J. Harris
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: davison@selkirk.sfu.ca (R. Davison)
Subject: help with tablet support
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 22:55:55 GMT

Has anyone out there got a generic (or any other) tablet driver for
IRIX 4.0x?

Some sources at sgi claim that tablets are/were supported,
but said sources have been unable to provide us with the
necessary software to drive tablets.

I think the needed file is tabletd, which has been reported in
either /usr/gfx or in /etc/gl.  Neither of which are on any of
our machines.

If anyone out there is using a tablet successfully; how are
you driving it?

thanks, 

Rod Davison
Software Manager
Vertigo Technology Inc.
From: whit@sgibos.boston.sgi.com (Whitney Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: RE: SGI graphics board for Harris Nighthawk ?
Keywords: realtime Nighthawk
Date: 26 Aug 92 23:12:39 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.

> To whom it may concern !
> 
> We will probably buy a Harris Nighthawk VME-system (88100). Since we need
a   > lot of graphics power
> we are looking for a powerful graphics board for the Nighthawk,
preferably    > Silicon Graphics. GL and\
> PHIGS+ libraries should be available for the board. 
>
>Thanks !

Why buy a Nighthawk if you need SGI graphcis? SGI sells competative
realtime systems with graphics fully integrated with the processor
environment. SGI does not sell its graphics adapters to other computer
mfg's (exception - IBM and the orignal Personal Iris graphics). If Harris
is the choice, you may want to look at front-ending the machine with an SGI
graphics workstation through FDDI or other high speed interface. But, you
really should take a careful look at the SGI offerings. It would be a much
better integrated solution.

Best of luck in your evaluation,

Whit
+---------------------------------+-------------------------------+
|Whitney Harris                   | One Cabot Road                | 
|Silicon Graphics Computer Systems| Hudson MA   01749             |
|Systems Engineering Manager      | Phone: 508/562-4800 VMail:8104|
|NorthEastern/Mid-Atlantic Regions| Fax:   508/562-4755           |
+--------------+------------------+-------------------------------+
| whit@sgi.com |
+--------------+
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: news on Indigo
From: blue%rtsmv1.decnet@edwards-vax.af.mil
Date: 2 Sep 92 16:43:50 -0800
Organization: IFAST -- EDWARDS Air Force Base
Nntp-Posting-User: blue


   What software is needed (recommended) to get 'news' on an Iris Indigo?

   Thanks in advance...

Russell D. Blue
Edwards AFB,  CA
(805) 277-2443
blue@gts.elan.af.mil
blue@edwards-vax.af.mil
From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: need /dev/kmem advice
Date: 4 Sep 92 18:23:59 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA

In <Bu22JC.Hz5@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> abe@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Vic Abell) writes:

| I am trying to port an existing application to an SGI work station,
| running IRIX 4.0.5.  The application uses nlist() to obtain kernel
| addresses and reads kernel values via lseek() and read() calls on
| a /dev/kmem descriptor.  It's an open-file lister, ala ofiles or
| fstat, that I call lsof.
| 
| The nlist() works properly, but I have to strip the high order bit
| (0x80000000) from the addresses it returns in order to avoid an EINVAL
| from lseek().  If I do that, the values I get from read() seem correct.
| 
| I've even deduced (I think) how to read the user area structure from
| some hints in <sys/proc.h> and <sys/immu.h>.  However, I can't find a
| way to read the array of open file pointers, using the u_ofile pointer
| in the user area.  If I strip its high order bit, I get an ENXIO error
| from read().  The address appears to be in the kernel stack -- e.g.,
| 0xffffc808.

The uarea, not the stack.  Most SVR3 kernels put the file table
at the end of the defined part of the user struct, but still part
of the uarea; that allows changing the max # of open files per
user without changing offsets in the uarea (it may even go back
further to SVR2, I just don't remember)

| So, two questions for the gurus of this news group.
| 
| 1. Is stripping the high order bit from kernel addresses the right way
|    to use them via /dev/kmem?

For the most part, yes.

| 2. How does one read from addresses of form 0xffffc808?

You have to read the uarea for that process, and the best
way to do that is with the syssgi system call  with SGI_RDUBLK.
See 'man syssgi' for details.
--
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
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: mskucher@math.uwaterloo.ca (Murray S. Kucherawy [MFCF])
Subject: IRIX 4.0.4 include bugs
Organization: Math Faculty Computing Facility, University of Waterloo, Canada
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 18:56:34 GMT

This program:

#include <pwd.h>
main()
{
}

...produces three compilation warnings while it's reading the file
"/usr/include/pwd.h".

How come?

-- Murray S. Kucherawy ----------------------------------------+--------------
Software Systems Co-op, Math Faculty Computing Facility [MFCF] | This is a
University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada                        | machine that
E-mail: mskucherawy@{math,watdragon}.UWaterloo.ca              | goes PING!
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: boylan@pi.eai.iastate.edu (Terran Boylan)
Subject: CLEVER BUMPMAP/PHONG TRIX on VGX?
Keywords: Clever, cleverness, cleverosity
Organization: Engineering Animation, Inc.
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 18:26:14 GMT

(NOTE: forgive the repetitive use of the word "clever" in
the following post.)

Hello, everybody!

I really hope this doesn't start a big "when are we gonna
have Phong shading in hardware" thread.  That's not what I'm
after. :^)  (Anybody besides me remember that guy at the SGI
user's group meeting back at SIGGRAPH '87 or '88 that stood up
and demanded Phong shading?)

The best analog for what I'm after is a technique similar in
cleverness to the Stencil Shadow's algorithm that was published
a couple of _Iris Universes_ ago.

What I want to know is if anybody's figured out some clever
way of simulating bump maps on a VGX?  I would assume that
the process would involve rendering your object unshaded using a
texture map to represent a change in normal direction.  Somehow
you'd get approximate polygon slope information from either taking the
derivative of the Z-buffer or using a second pass where you render
your object using color to represent normal information.  The last
step would be a pixel-by-pixel computation of some sort, possibly
using the stencil bitplanes in some clever way.

Remember, I'm not looking for displacement maps or true bump maps.
I'm looking for SYNTHETIC bump maps, where the majority of the
work is done in hardware.  I'm not looking for a real-time interactive
technique, and I don't care if it looks ugly on the screen while it's
doing it.  I want it for a frame-at-a-time animation technique.  Images
would be video resolution.

Has anybody done this?  Does what I'm suggesting make sense?  Should
I just give up the idea of having bump-mapped objects in my animations?
Say it ain't so!

Thanks a million flat shaded polygons per second!

Terran J Boylan
Sr Artist/Programmer
Engineering Animation, Inc.
Ames, IA  50201
  
P.S. So when are we gonna have hardware support for FFD's?
From: rck@fangio.asd.sgi.com (Robert Keller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Image Tools
Date: 1 Sep 92 17:27:03 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA

In article <p9br7n4@zuni.esd.sgi.com> olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson) writes:
>In <32279@adm.brl.mil> rose@baby.swmed.utexas.edu (Rose Oguz) writes:
>
>| Hello!
>| 
>| LEt me get right to the point.  Is there a way that I can include the image
>| tools (and whatever is in /usr/sbin) in my software.  There are a few 
>| functions that I need and I'd like to build software around them.
>
>Many (not all of them) have source in the /usr/people/4Dgifts directory
>(install eoe2.sw.giftsfull).

Of course, what dave meant to say was that you need to install,

    dev.sw.giftsbasic  - Basic Gifts Source
    dev.sw.giftsfull   - Full Gifts Source

to get source.

...robert
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: ohrd!twriter@cs.toronto.edu (Timothy Writer)
Subject: Re: IRIX 4.0: how much memory?
Organization: "Ontario Hydro - Research Division"
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 92 16:16:24 GMT

achim@video1.bs.open.de (Joachim Gothe) writes:

>In article <1992Aug21.094913.42477@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>, arritt@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:

[ stuff deleted ]

>IMPORTANT: Silicon Graphics told me, that the 4D/20-25 don't support
>	   officialy the 4MB simms, only 1 MB and 2 MB simms.
>	   On some engines, there will be problemms with 4MB simms.

This is interesting.  Is this true for a 4D/210?  I have a 4D/210 which
currently has 24MB.  For a reasonable price, I can upgrade to 32MB;
however, if I want to go beyond 32MB, I understand I need to purchase
an expansion board for a mere $16,000 (CDN).  Needless to say, I am not
going to do that.  If I could replace my 2MB simms with 4MB simms I
could get 64MB which would probably be sufficient.  Has anyone put 4MB
simms in a 4D/210?  Do they work?

Thanks for your help,
Tim

-- 
Tim Writer			     phone:  (416) 231-4111 ext. 6990
Ontario Hydro Research Division	     fax:    (416) 237-9285
Toronto, Ontario		     e-mail: cs.toronto.edu!ohrd!twriter
CANADA					     cs.utoronto.ca!ohrd!twriter
From: rme@stereo.rl.af.mil (Richard M. Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Uncorrectable errors
Date: 4 Sep 92 15:46:48 GMT

Good morning (well it IS Friday),

Before I call the TAC, I was wondering what options (problems) I have
with one of my disks (/usr).  In the SYSLOG I get many errors of the form:

	uncorrectable error (code 23) chs=#/#/# 

repeated three times each before the FATAL message.

[ Fortunately :-(, it is my IRIX 3.3.2 /usr disk so the machine still
functions under IRIX 4.0.1 although my graphics applications won't run
(dials and buttons box doesn't cooperate, you know). ]


Rich Evans
rme@stereo.rl.af.mil
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: jwa@yog-sothoth.dcrt.nih.gov (James W. Adams)
Subject: Re: ispell
Organization: National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 12:54:31 GMT

In article <32152@adm.brl.mil> pjf@osiris.cs.uoguelph.ca (Peter Jaspers-Fayer) writes:
>Asking archie about ispell (which I found out about via elm), gives me several
>[...]

There's a nicer package called "vspell" that should run O.K. on a SGI.

You can get it from archive.cis.ohio-state.edu in the /pub/att7300/STORE
directory as "VSPELL+IN.Z."

Note that this is not the same as the vspell.tar-z file at some sites.

This is a compressed cpio archive which contains some extra glue
required for automatic installation on the AT&T "UNIX-PC."

Unpack with zcat VSPELL+IN.Z | cpio -icdvu.

It has a nice curses-based interface that displays errors in paragraph
context and will try to suggest alternatives for correction.  It manages
a local dictionary as well, and can be integrated into EMACS and
MicroEMACS if desired.

--
        James W. Adams   --   NIH Scientific Computing Resource Center
        Building 12A, Room 1050              phone: (301) 402-3488
        National Institutes of Health        uucp: uunet!nih-csl!jwa
        Bethesda, MD 20892                   Internet: jwa@alw.nih.gov