HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: rupen@smurf.ssc.gov (Rupen Sheth)
Subject: xrn 6.17 memory usage
Organization: Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 18:09:49 GMT

I have recently built xrn version (with Motif widgets) on Sun OS 4.1.1 using
Quest X11R5 and Motif 1.1.4.

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').

Is this only in the Motif version of xrn?
Has anybody else noticed this?  What can be done to improve this?
-- 
Rupen Sheth
Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory        EMail: rupen@falcon.ssc.gov
2550 Beckleymeade Ave. MS 4004                   Phone: (214) 708-3344
Dallas, TX 75237                                   FAX: (214) 708-4827
From: flogden@icaen.uiowa.edu (Fred Lee Ogden)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
Subject: Is there a better xpr than xpr?
Summary: xpr ain't doin' what I want it to be doin'
Keywords: xpr, HP PaintJet, xwd
Date: 4 Sep 92 22:48:54 GMT
Organization: Iowa Computer Aided Engineering Network, University of Iowa

Hello all:

I've written a beautiful 2-D x display package for 8 bit raster data.  I figured
that I would just do an xwd on my trusty HP-750, run that baby through xpr,
then lp it to the local painjet and get a real nice hardcopy of my 2-D plot.

However,...  When the hardcopy comes out, it only contains the primary colors.
No color mixing, what-so-ever.  Either I'm doing something wrong, or xpr stinks
for my needs.  I'm doing this:

1) xwd -out outfilename
(if I do an xwud -in outfilename, it looks just like the original)

2) xpr -dev pjet -density 180 -plane 7 outfilename > readytoprintoutfilename

3) lp -dpjet readytoprintoutfilename

Am I not doing something that I should be doing?  If xpr really lacks muster,
is there a better driver available?  Is it a paintjet problem?  Any and all
replies will be entered into the free toaster drawing.

Thanks,
Fred L. Ogden
flogden@icaen.uiowa.edu
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
From: harrison@faraday.physics.utoronto.ca (David Harrison)
Subject: Re: X via modem?
Organization: Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Toronto
Distribution: comp.windows.x.apps
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 09:42:57 GMT

In article <BuEIsz.2sM@compound.se> smith@compound.se (Bjorn Smith) writes:
>
>Does that mean that I will be able to use a Visual X15 terminal
>over a slip/modem connection with reasonable functionality ?
>
>What does Xremote really do ?
>I assume some sort of compression of the X-protocol messages.
>
>Why can't a modem with V.42bis data compression do the same thing ?

Setting up a slip/modem connection certainly works.  

Xremote, which I believe NCD has donated to the X Consortium, does
a couple of things of interest here.  First, it does its own error
correction/compression.  I get about 30% better speed under Xremote by
turning off the MNP and compression protocols of my modem, and have
never seen an error once Xremote is running; sometimes it takes
a couple of tries to get a line clean enough to get Xremote up
though.  Second, Xremote assigns a display variable automatically
when it starts up so you do not need to have a permanent IP number
in your /etc/hosts file as you do under slip. I am composing this
posting in an xterm window using Xremote and connected to a
computer named faraday.  Thus my DISPLAY variable is: faraday:1.0
The next person to fire up Xremote would get faraday:2.0, etc.

At present, I believe Xremote is only available on NCD X-terminals
and on their software that turns a PC into an X terminal.

I haven't done a side-by-side comparison, but would be surprised
if Xremote weren't much faster than slip.

In my experience running an X-terminal at 9600 baud, under either Xremote
or slip, is painfully slow if the window manager is running as a client.
A local window manager which runs in the terminal, such as NCDwm or
equivalent, is strongly recommended; I don't know whether a Visual X15
has such capability.  And in all cases performance for color graphics
is slooooow.  And forget running it at 2400 baud.  Note that the words
"slow" and "slooooow" are somewhat subjective however.

Finally, an observation: running X at 9600 baud gives you a chance to
actually watch screen redraws taking place.  This is sometimes highly
instructive, especially if it is your own code that you discover is
unnecessarily redrawing a window multiple times on, for example, a
single expose event.
-- 
David Harrison                             | "We place no reliance on virgin
Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Toronto         |    or pigeon.  Our method is
Inet: harrison@faraday.physics.utoronto.ca |    science, our aim is religion"
                                           |      -- Aleister Crowley
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
From: nghoff@albert.monsanto.com (Norman G. Hoffman)
Subject: SUMMARY: HELP: Where's the rest of xarchie?
Organization: Monsanto Company
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 02:53:08 GMT

ORIGINAL QUERY:

> I'm trying to get xarchie ... but I can't find all of it ...
> 
> wuarchive.wustl.edu:/usenet/comp.sources.x/volume14/xarchie [contained]:
> 
> ftp> ls -l
> total 45
> -rw-rw-r--  1 root        27693 Oct 11  1991 part01.Z
> -rw-rw-r--  1 root        17550 Oct 11  1991 patch1.Z
> 
> ... "sh part01" ... unpacked about 35 files, then said:
> 
> shar: End of archive 1 (of 8).
> You still need to unpack the following archives:
>	 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
> 
> The MANIFEST lists about 70 files...
> 
> Anybody know what I'm doing wrong, or where I can go to get
> all 8 parts?

THANKS TO:

tohanson@gonzo.lerc.nasa.gov (Jeff Hanson)
walkerm@RUBY.CIMS.NYU.EDU (M.Walker)

SOLUTION:

Not only is xarchie in comp.sources.x incomplete, it's also obsolete
(version 1.1, 4 Sep 1991).

Ftp.uu.net, like wuarchive.wustl.edu, also has incomplete version 1.1 
in usenet/comp.sources.x/volume14/xarchie.  But ftp.uu.net also has a 
complete copy of version 1.3 (12 Nov 1991) stored as xarchie-1.3.tar.Z 
in networking/info-service/archie/clients.

Norm Hoffman
nghoff@bb1t.monsanto.com
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
From: gloria@cs.UAlberta.CA (Gloria Lai-ping Chow)
Subject: Need help with xfig
Summary: How to display greek symbos
Keywords: xfig
Organization: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 20:14:20 GMT

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.

Gloria Chow
gloria@cs.ualberta.ca
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
From: toms@qualix.com (Tom Stuart)
Subject: Re: ethernet monitor wanted
Reply-To: toms@qualix.com
Organization: QUALiX Group, Inc.
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 22:57:34 GMT

In article 8900@cc.uow.edu.au, g8524394@cc.uow.edu.au (David John Atkinson) writes:
> 
> Is there a simple X based utility for monitoring the traffic on an ethernet
> (that is all the traffic in terms of packets) and display it as a simple
> scrolled graph like th performance tool on a Sun. (This tool is wanted to run
> on a Sun).
> 
> Does anything exist ?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Dave Atkinson

NetScope is a product which does this.  It is a serious network troubleshooting
tool.  In addition to just displaying traffic, it can filter specific types
of packets, compare types of traffic, and do packet decoding.  A brief description
of NetScope is included below.

For more information, email:   info@qualix.com






                                NETSCOPE
			        --------
 DESCRIPTION:
 -----------

 NetScope is a network diagnostic and troubleshooting tool that runs
 on Sun SPARC workstations.  NetScope's easy-to-use charts and graphs 
 give the network administrator the ability to easily see what is 
 happening in their network to quickly pinpoint and fix network problems.

 NetScope can capture, filter and decode Ethernet packets; assess network 
 utilization, check connectivity between hosts, generate packet streams,
 measure traffic intensity, and display them in ways that make analysis
 easy -- all without dedicated hardware.


 Complete Tool Kit for Network Management
 ----------------------------------------

 NetScope has tools to assess network load, to decode packets, and to
 generate packets for load simulation and connectivity checking.


 Three Load Monitoring Tools
 ---------------------------

 NetScope has three tools to measure and determine the nature of
 the network load.  The local meter gives a continuous quick peak
 into current, average and peak traffic, and number of collisions.
 Net Waves views six types of traffic (based on filters you set up)
 at once, for a side-by-side view. And the Ethernet Load Distribution
 displays hourly or daily traffic patterns.


 Four Packet Tools
 -----------------

 Traffic Statistics gives views of prerecorded traffic with selected
 filters shown by most active hosts, most prevalent protocol, and by
 length bracket.  Ethernet line monitor views individual packets,
 and Packet Tag deciphers packets through all layers for examination
 and comparison.


 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:
 -------------------

 SPARCstation systems
 SunOS 4.1 or later
 Open Windows
 Color or grayscale (color preferred)
			
	

QUALiX GROUP, INC.
1900 So. Norfolk Street, #224
San Mateo, CA 94403

Phone: 1-800-245-UNIX
Fax:   1-415-572-1300
E-mail:  info@qualix
From: rose@t524i5.telematik.informatik.uni-karlsruhe.de (Ortwin Rose)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
Subject: Re: Postscript to encapsulated postscript?
Date: 15 Sep 92 15:24:58 GMT
Organization: /usr/users/rose/.organization
NNTP-Posting-Host: t524i5.telematik.informatik.uni-karlsruhe.de
In-reply-to: dcook@garnet.berkeley.edu's message of 14 Sep 1992 20:39:53 GMT

Hi,

think you should try "ps2eps", a small utility that has been distributed
for MacIntosh-Users (take a look at comp.sys.mac.digest, where such problems
are sometimes discussed). I've ftp'ed that stuff from

   sumex-aim.standford.edu

file 

   ps2eps-11.shar.Z

(sorry, I do not remember in which directory I found it). Here's a short 
description taken from the README-file:

> ps2eps-mac takes an arbitrary postscript file
> ( even sort of works with macintosh laserwriter driver dumps.. )
> and creates an 'encapsulated postscript with embedded pict' file in
> macbinary format.
> This file can be included in certain programs ( eg Word5 ) that support
> the format, and you will get a 72dpi screen preview image, but postscript
> quality output on your postscript printer.

You will also need pbmtoepsi, ppmtopict, and ghostscript (these are all
in the public domain, so you can easily get access to them). More details
about the installation process can be found within the distribution.


Regards

-- O. Rose
   University of Karlsruhe
   Institute of Telematics
From: envbvs@epb9.lbl.gov (Brian V. Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
Subject: Re: Need help with xfig
Date: 6 Sep 1992 23:49:49 GMT
Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley
Reply-To: envbvs@epb9.lbl.gov (Brian V. Smith)
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.12.98
Keywords: xfig

In article <26141@dog.ee.lbl.gov> I wrote:
	[...]
	>...  Just change the code in the file u_font.c that adds
	>iso-8859 to the font name from this:

I meant the file "w_drawprim.c", not u_font.c

Brian V. Smith    (bvsmith@lbl.gov)
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
I don't speak for LBL; they don't pay me enough for that.
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
From: lichtenw@guug.de (Klaus Lichtenwalder)
Subject: Re: Wordprocessor for SVR4
Organization: Technical University of Munich, Germany
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 15:10:14 GMT

slangley@constant.demon.co.uk (Simon Langley) writes:

>Does anyone know of an X-based word processor that allows use of the mouse
>to mark text and will show different fonts, underlining &c on a single page?

Try Island Write. You can reach them at info@island.com or info@island.nl

--
_______________________________________________________________________________
Klaus Lichtenwalder, Dipl. Inf.                 Tel: +49-89-986929
Datapat GmbH                                    FAX: +49-89-988014
Mauerkircherstr. 31                             email: lichtenw@guug.de
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
From: schultz@halley.est.3m.com (John C. Schultz)
Subject: Re: X via modem?
In-reply-to: kdeacon@nmsu.edu's message of Thu, 3 Sep 1992 23:35:09 GMT
Organization: 3M Company, 3M Center, Minnesota, USA
Distribution: comp.windows.x.apps
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 21:34:38 GMT

In article <KDEACON.92Sep3163509@dante.nmsu.edu> kdeacon@nmsu.edu (DEACON) writes:

   Does there exist some sort of X server/client that can talk across a
   modem dialup line?  Either public domain or commercial.
   Thanks
   Keith


SLIP will certainly work but is very slow.

Xremote, currently a proprietary format from NCD, will work much
better and faster. 
--
   John C. Schultz   +1 (612) 733-4047   schultz@halley.serc.3m.com
   How to include the taste of Glendronach in a multi-media system?
From: dcook@garnet.berkeley.edu (Dan Cook)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
Subject: Postscript to encapsulated postscript?
Date: 14 Sep 1992 20:39:53 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: garnet.berkeley.edu

This is an addendum to my earlier question regarding
postscript to bitmap conversion... The main reason that
I want to know how to do this is to be able to incorporate
some graphics in some documents which are being produced
using Framemaker... Framemaker, I have now found out, will
read in EPSF files, which are encapsulated postscript files
with a PICT format section which allows them to be displayed
on a terminal within the document that you are editting (am
I making sense?)... So what I would REALLY like, it turns
out, is something that will read a postscript file and produce
a file with this PICT preview image at the beginning of it...

Any ideas?

-uncle dan
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
From: hope@multix.no (Andreas Hope)
Subject: Re: Wordprocessor for SVR4
Organization: Multix A.S
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 07:25:35 GMT

lichtenw@guug.de (Klaus Lichtenwalder) writes:

>slangley@constant.demon.co.uk (Simon Langley) writes:

>>Does anyone know of an X-based word processor that allows use of the mouse
>>to mark text and will show different fonts, underlining &c on a single page?

>Try Island Write. You can reach them at info@island.com or info@island.nl


You can also look at Word Perfect (yes, I know it is a Bad Word, but
they are improving) .
The SPARC version is out with both Motif and Open Look interface.
And it is cheaper than island, at least here.
-- 
-Andreas Hope
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
From: davidric@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (david ricardo)
Subject: IMAGE EDITOR, looking for?
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 19:37:42 GMT

I am looking for a good image editor simular to Adobe photoshop for
Mac or Adobe photostyler for windows. Not just a viewer converter
but an editor. Filters, etc.

-- 

| Ricardo David              RacerX Engineering              |
| University of Illinois          ...keep them mowing        |
| davidric@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu                 blades sharp ... |
From: kmolsen@asdi.saic.com (Ken Olsen x6573)
Subject: xcal
Keywords: xcal source
Reply-To: kmolsen@asdi.saic.com
Organization: Science Applications International Corporation
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 15:15:41 GMT

Does anyone know where I can get public domain source
for xcal?  It doesn't seem to be available on my Sun.

Email is best, but if that fails, please post.

Thanks!
--
ken olsen                         | "You'd better be prepared for the jump
kmolsen@asdi.saic.com             | into hyperspace.  It's unpleasantly like
San Diego, CA:                    | being drunk." "What's so unpleasant about
    home of Lloyd the Wonder Dog. | being drunk?" "You ask a glass of water."
From: rkl@csc.liv.ac.uk (Richard Lloyd)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
Subject: xfig 2.1.4 compiles OK for me on our HP 9000/720s !
Date: 3 Sep 92 12:47:33 GMT
Organization: Computer Science, Liverpool University

In article <1992Aug31.161745.1912@informatik.uni-bremen.de>, cop18@lehre25.informatik.Uni-Bremen.DE (Kompilerpraktikum Gruppe18) writes:
> Today I tried to compile xfig 2.1.4 on our HP9000/720. It worked all fine 
> until u_undo.c. After this part part I got a Bus Error and signal 10.
> 
> Is there somebody who could help out ??

I had to *find* xfig 2.1.4 first ! It's now moved to /contrib/R5fixes/xfig-patches/xfig.2.14.tar.Z on export.lcs.mit.edu

Apart from a slight lp change in u_print.c (to get rid of -oPS, which is not
needed), nothing else needed to be changed.

Our setup ?

HP 9000/720 running HP-UX 8.07 and linking with HP's X11R4 libraries.
CDEBUGFLAGS in our imake setup is set to +O3, which is the highest optimisation
level and u_undo.c went through it OK.

For those who want to try it for themselves, you will find the package on our
anonymous FTP site, ftp.csc.liv.ac.uk, as /hpux/X11/xfig-2.14.tar.Z.

Archive Librarian,        E-mail: ftp@csc.liv.ac.uk
Computer Science Dept.,
Liverpool University, 
Merseyside, England,
Great Britain.
Xref: sparky comp.windows.x.apps:949 comp.windows.x:16272
From: smith@compound.se (Bjorn Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps,comp.windows.x
Subject: Xtroff + groff + char > 127
Date: 7 Sep 92 08:13:58 GMT
Organization: Compound Systems AB
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

We have tried to user groff producing 8 bit feeding xtroff but without
success. For 7-bit ascii it works perfect but when character values above
127 decimal enters xtroff it complain saying:

"Bad character (-27) in  PutCharacter at..."

Is there a fix for this ?

Thanks in advance !
-- 
Bj|rn Smith	Compound Systems, phone +46 8 7923689
UUCP:	 	{uunet,mcsun}!seunet!comsys!smith
Domain Address:	smith@compound.se
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
From: dwalker@bnr.ca (David Walker)
Subject: REQUEST: some way of recording Xevents 
Reply-To: dwalker@bnr.ca (David Walker)
Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd.
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 15:12:00 GMT


I'm looking for a program (preferably PD, but I'm willing to spend $$)
that would allow me to essentially record, to a file, all of the X events 
being received by an application.  I'd then like to rerun the application
having all input come from the previously recorded events in the file 
(with the same time between events, etc.).

This program should run on either an HP 425 running HP-UX 7.05 and X11R4,
or a Sparc running SunOS 4.1.1 and X11R5.

Thanks in advance,


Dave Walker.

======================================================================
David R. Walker                             | phone:    (613) 763-5304
Bell-Northern Research, Ltd.                | fax:      (613) 763-8312
P.O. Box 3511, Station C                    | internet: dwalker@bnr.ca
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1Y 4H7             | 
======================================================================
From: envbvs@epb9.lbl.gov (Brian V. Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
Subject: Re: Xfig and squares
Date: 15 Sep 1992 16:50:35 GMT
Organization: lbl
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.12.98
Keywords: regular polygons

In article <1992Sep14.235547.9986@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>, roband@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Robert Andrew) writes:
|> Does anyone out there know how to make Xfig rotate squares by less than
|> 90 degrees. After reading the manual, it seems to me that squares may 
|> only be rotated by 90 degrees.
|> 
|> I need to form diamonds, so if anyone has better ideas than rotating
|> squares they would also be much appreciated.

You don't say which version of xfig you are using, but since version 2.1,
you can draw 'regular polygons' of any number of sides.  These may be rotated
by any angle.  Just set the number of sides setting to 4 and draw the diamond
directly or draw a square and rotate it.

-- 
Brian V. Smith    (bvsmith@lbl.gov)
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
I don't speak for LBL; they don't pay me enough for that.
From: wetmore@cs.ucdavis.edu (Brad,4480-A Chemistry Annex,2149,7540674,Levitt)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
Subject: Re: REQUEST: some way of recording Xevents
Date: 10 Sep 92 23:19:52 GMT
Reply-To: wetmore@cs.ucdavis.edu
Organization: Computer Science, University of California at Davis.

In article 28214@bmerh85.bnr.ca, dwalker@bnr.ca (David Walker) writes:
>
>I'm looking for a program (preferably PD, but I'm willing to spend $$)
>that would allow me to essentially record, to a file, all of the X events 
>being received by an application.  I'd then like to rerun the application
>having all input come from the previously recorded events in the file 
>(with the same time between events, etc.).
>
>This program should run on either an HP 425 running HP-UX 7.05 and X11R4,
>or a Sparc running SunOS 4.1.1 and X11R5.

There was program we got somewhere called xev, which basically put up a window,
and then dumped all the events that happened in the window to stdout.
You might try getting the source and incorporating it into your program...


---
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O \     Brad Wetmore:                 wetmore@toadflax.cs.ucdavis.edu
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	it back at the UCD used .sigstore.
From: tda10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Tim Auckland)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
Subject: Re: Postscript to bitmap conversion?
Date: 13 Sep 92 21:45:41 GMT
Organization: U of Cambridge, England

In article <salnick.0k49@dejavu.spk.wa.us>, salnick@dejavu.spk.wa.us (There is no substitute for displacement...) writes:
|> 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?

No, PbmPlus deals with rasters and other "simple" graphics models.  Admittedly
they may be in fancy formats but nothing in that package can come near real
PostScript.  There is a note from the author explaining that although there are
the psto?? tools for unpacking PS image format, they are not really serious.

PostScript is a complete programming language and should not be mistaken for a
mere "graphics format".  It requires a fairly heavy interpreter implementing
virtual memory and sometimes even file-system operations.  GhostScript provides a
very good PD PostScript interpreter.  It does include a program (written in
postscript, of course) that will run a PostScript file and write the output to
disk in ppm format.  After that yo may use the PbmPlus suite.

Tim.