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From: laborell@taloa.unice.fr (Louis Laborelli)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Converters FROM Postscript
Date: 20 Aug 92 10:29:44 GMT
Organization: University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis, France
Originator: laborell@taloa.unice.fr


I would like a kind of specialized tool: 
for exemple converting results of dvips to ascii text (unformated) 
for indexing. Many tech reports are available from the net in postcript-only version and being able to obtain the bibliography on electronic form would be 
interesting. 
What is the best available way ?
A wais server tries to do that, but I am far from impressed by the quality of the 
conversion process. 
(email answer prefered) 
Thanks . 
-- 
 Louis Laborelli
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 I3S LISAN - CNRS Batiment 4          \	telex: GRP 970006F
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-- 
 Louis Laborelli
 Universite de Nice Sophia Antipolis  / phone: (33) 92 94 26 89	       
 I3S LISAN - CNRS Batiment 4          \	telex: GRP 970006F
 250 rue Albert Einstein	      / fax: (33) 92 94 28 98
 Sophia Antipolis	              \ e-mail:laborell@zig.inria.fr
 06560 Valbonne FRANCE                / or laborell@mimosa.unice.fr
From: davis@gauss.enet.dec.com (Peter Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: limitcheck error message
Date: 12 Aug 92 15:08:35 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation


In article <1992Aug11.135300.7424@ramsey.cs.laurentian.ca>, barry@ramsey.cs.laurentian.ca (Barry G. Adams) writes...
> I am getting a limitcheck error message from a PostScript program
> that I have written.  The offending command is rlineto.  What does
> this imply?  Are the numbers getting too small or too large?
>

Probably the number of elements (lineto's, curveto's, etc.) is getting too
large.  Try breaking up the path into smaller pieces.  This is easy if the
path is just being stroked.  If it's being filled, you have to do it cleverly
so that the resulting filled areas equal the area that would be been filled by
the original path.

                   /
                  /
        /  /  /  /		Peter Davis,	Digital Equipment Corp.
       /  /  /  /				davis@3d.enet.dec.com
      /__/__/__/
     /
  __/
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: wrp@pslsrv1.gvl.unisys.com (Bill Pringle)
Subject: Re: Help needed: extract pages from PS files
Keywords: extract pages
Organization: Paramax Systems, Ivyland, PA
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 01:38:22 GMT

In article <xsong.713802068@marcus> xsong@marcus.cs.umn.edu (Xiaohui Carol Song) writes:
>I have a big document in postscript format. I only want to print centain
>pages of it.  I wonder if there exists a command to extract pages from
>a Postscript file? (something similar to dviselect)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
If your file conforms to standard conventions (e.g., %%Page:), then
you can use the pspages program I posted a little while ago.
============================================================================
Bill Pringle                      Software Tools
Paramax Corporation               Voice: (215)443-7500 X4023
Internet: wrp@ivy.unisys.com      UUCP: ...!uunet!mimsy!widener!gvls1!wrp%ivy
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: arorav@bnr.ca (Vikas Arora)
Subject: How to create page-links in a poster?
Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd., Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 21:57:16 GMT

I  am creating a (sort of) poster which has lot of objects and I am looking
for a neat way to show how one page is linked to other pages - does anyone
has any suggestions and the way to do it.

Thanks

Vikas
Software Engineering Centre
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: geoffw@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (Geoffrey Warren Hicks)
Subject: Enscript clone
Organization: Sydney University Computing Service, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 23:12:57 GMT

Please note: this message is from Craig Southeren. I am posting it for
him as he does not have direct net access.

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

Thanks to all of the people who expressed interest in my enscript clone,
"nenscript". The local mailer here doesn't appear to recognize some
of the return addresses to the message I received, so some of you
may not have received my reply.

I am expecting to get a copy of the sources for nenscript out the door
next week, workload permitting. It is made more difficult becuase I no
longer have direct access to a Unix box - I now have to go via modem.
This does mean that the MSDOS version will be tested thoroughly!! 

I have the following people on my mail list. Please send me alternate
addresses if these are incorrect:

Jody Goldberg <goldberg@turing.toronto.edu>
Robert Turner <turner@ssdt-tempe.sps.mot.com>
dant@lostark.uucp (Dan Thurman)
dewar@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (Alan Dewar)
edsr!tantalum!jamii@uunet.uu.net (Jamii K. Corley)
gerry@dialogic.com (Gerry Lachac)
how@ssvax1.dnet.loral.com
howard@hal.com (Howard Gayle)
jtgoh@Athena.MIT.EDU
kahl@informatik.unibw-muenchen.de (Wolfram Kahl)
marcello@deis20.cineca.it (Marcello Dalpasso)
merklin@ptltd.com (Ed Terrell)
rwhitby@research.canon.oz.au (Rod Whitby)
sandkuyl@phcoms.seri.philips.nl (Henk Sandkuyl)
shoham@enel.ucalgary.ca (Idan Shoham)
wolff@fubinf.uucp (Thomas Wolff)
wrp@ivy.Unisys.COM (Bill Pringle)

Bye for now

   Craig Southeren
From: lucas@cg-atla.UUCP (Dick Lucas)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Frequently Asked Questions?
Keywords: FAQ, Questions
Date: 17 Aug 92 13:18:19 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Agfa Compugraphic Division, Wilmington, Mass. USA

Would someone please tell me if this newsgroup has a Frequently Asked
Questions List (FAQ) and if so, how to get it if it is not regularly
posted?  E-mail response is OK, but I suspect a posted response would
benefit other new readers who may have the same question.  Thanks in
advance.

Dick Lucas	decvax!cg-atla!lucas
From: xiaofei@acsu.buffalo.edu (XiaoFei Wang)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Printing specific pages with GS
Date: 14 Aug 92 22:13:27 GMT
Organization: Physics Dept, State U of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260

/* From the keyboard of wrp@psl1.gvl.unisys.com (Bill Pringle) */:
:You can use the pspages program I posted a day or so ago.
:Just use pspages to extract the pages you want to print, and then
:send that segment to the printer.

It is impossible to print certain pages from a PostScript file. 
For example, 
2 { copypage } repeat 
will print out two pages. How can you print out the first page and
leave the second page using your utility ?

-- 
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From: mslade@netcom.com (Michael Slade)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: looking for RTF->PostScript
Summary: looking for c code for Rich Text Format conversion to PostScript
Keywords: RTF PostScript
Date: 13 Aug 92 22:42:29 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)

I'm looking for c code that parses MicroSoft's Rich Text Format
and produces reasonable PostScript.
A close second would be a good parser for Rich Text Format.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

-- Michael Slade, Datavision Technologies
From: sommer@binah.cc.brandeis.edu
Subject: Re: Iron-On Code
Reply-To: sommer@binah.cc.brandeis.edu
Organization: Brandeis University
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 03:22:01 GMT


There's a place called 	Black Lightning, Inc.
			RR 1-87, Depot Rd.
			Hartland, VT 05048
			1-800-252-2599
			1-802-436-3257
			Fax: 1-802-436-3258

I think they started out selling "remanufactured" toner cartridges but 
now they have all sorts of related products and services.

From a blurb in their newsletter, The Flash: 

"After years of intensive research, BL has develpoed a special type of
toner for laser printers containing a sublimation fabric dye. Your
laser printer sees this special cartridge as any other toner
cartridge. You print your graphics in mirror image on your laser 
printer using plain paper and your choice of graphics software. Heat 
press the resulting image to transfer the sublimation dyes to fabrics, 
metal, T-shirts [...], plastics [...]. When you remove the paper, 
you'll reveal your image in color on the destination surface. Do 
four-color artwork with multipass printing. For more info [call or 
write]."

and: "Call for Free Samples"

The 1991 list has ten color choices, offers custom colors, and prices
from Jan 1991 are $80/economy cartridge, $300/5 (claims to do 400
copies/cartridge -- no comment on print density) and $265/Professional
cartridge, $1000/5 (2200 copies/cartridge). 

I am/was on the BL mailing list and received some free samples of
those iron-on transfers but never tested them. They felt like the real 
thing. But otherwise:

->->-> *** Disclaimer: I HAVE NO FINANCIAL INTEREST IN NOR RELATION TO
			BlackLightning!! *** <-<-<- 

I used to send them my empty cartridges (even tho' I never bought any
remanufactured ones), but then the payback for being an environmentalist 
dropped from $6/cart to $3/cart. B-) 

sommer@binah.cc.brandeis.edu
From: elias@corton.inria.fr (Banska Bystrica)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Postscript for HP LJIIIp
Date: 14 Aug 92 16:52:49 GMT
Organization: INRIA, Rocquencourt, France.

Hi,
I am considering purchasing some postscript cartridge for 
HP Laser jet IIIp.  Would you recommend something
and what to avoid ?
    
Thanks,

Lubos Elias

elias@corton.inria.fr
elias@uakom.cs

From: simonc@otter.hpl.hp.com (Simon Chandler)
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 18:02:52 GMT
Subject: HELP: PS errors with LaserJet but not GS
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK.
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript


Dear PostScripters,

I have some complicated graphics produced by Mathematica and printed
into a PostScript file from a Macintosh.

This is rendered perfectly by GhostScript but causes errors when sent
to a LaserJet IIIsi.

Question - why should GhostScript (which I've been told is a poor
interpreter) understand my file when the LaserJet (which I've been
told is a good interpreter) won't ?  A typical error is

   ERROR: limitcheck
   OFFENDING COMMAND: setscreen

Is there some way of avoiding these errors ?
Please excuse my PostScript ignorance.

Simon Chandler
Hewlett-Packard Ltd (CPB)
Filton Road
Stoke Gifford
Bristol
BS12 6QZ

Tel: 0272 228109
Fax: 0272 236091
email: simonc@hpcpbla.bri.hp.com
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: roder@mayo.edu (Mark N. Roder)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: UNIX/C command line tiff to ps converter
Keywords: TIFF PS converter UNIX
Date: 20 Aug 92 20:08:00 GMT
Reply-To: roder@mayo.edu(Mark N. Roder)
Distribution: wold
Organization: Mayo Foundation, Rochester MN. Campus


	I am looking for a UNIX/C command line program to convert from  
tiff to ps.  It would be nice if this filtered from stdin to stdout, but  
that is not all that important.

Please respond by e-mail and I will summarize

Thanks

--
Mark Roder
NeXT Consultant, Mayo Foundation
NeXT Mail: 	roder@mayo.edu  
phone:		(507) 284-5306
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: mrl@nerus.pfc.mit.edu
Subject: PhoenixPage?  Seiko and/or Calcomp printer?
Organization: MIT PLASMA FUSION CENTER
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 20:28:46 GMT

I'm still looking at buying a postscript color printer.  Seiko claims that
their PhoenixPage postscript emulation creates smoother shading and less grainy
images.  Can anyone confirm this?  Also, has anyone tried the new Calcomp
printers?  Thanks.

Mark
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: delahunt@adobe.com (Jim DeLaHunt)
Subject: Re: Big polygons
Followup-To: comp.lang.postscript
Summary: Consume parameters immediately if possible
Organization: Adobe Systems Incorporated
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 03:44:04 GMT

In article <4eVm0Lq00awAMCPkkW@andrew.cmu.edu> am2q+@andrew.cmu.edu 
(Andrew Newell Mickish) writes:
>I need a strategy for printing polygons with an arbitrary number of
>vertices.  So I guess the question comes down to how do I deal with a 
>very large number of parameters to a function?

In general, write your script in such a way that it the interpreter
consumes code as soon as it receives it.  For instance, don't do
  143.2 246.0 .... (1000 coordinate pairs in reverse order here)
  1000 {moveto} repeat 

Send the coordinates and consume them at once.
  143.2 246.0 lineto 141.59 240.0 lineto ... (998 more "x y lineto" sets)

If you are concerned about data size, then define an abbreviation for 
"lineto".  You can also reduce data size by sending the difference between
coordinates, and by eliminating insignificant digits etc.
  % in prolog
  /l /lineto load def	/r /rlineto load def
  % in script
  143.2 246.0 l -1.41 -6 r ... (998 more "x y r" sets)

>Thanks,
>
>--Andrew Mickish

You're welcome!
	--Jim DeLaHunt, Developer Support, Adobe Systems Incorporated	
delahunt@adobe.com	...!{apple,decwrl}!adobe!delahunt      +1-415-962-3790
In matters of style my word is law!  I work for Developer Support.  :-)



Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: henry@trilithon.mpk.ca.us (Henry McGilton)
Subject: New LaserWriter Reference Manual ?
Keywords: IIf, IIg, manual, reference
Organization: Trilithon Software
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 14:55:00 GMT



I have a LaserWriter IIg.  Is there such an animal as the
LaserWriter Reference Manual, updated for these new printers?

	........  Henry
From: msw1633@zeus.tamu.edu (Mark S. Whitsitt, N5RJF)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: ps to eps round 2
Date: 21 Aug 92 00:58:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: zeus.20AUG199219582112
Reply-To: MSW1633@SUMMA.TAMU.EDU
Organization: Texas A&M University, Biochemistry Department
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

I have a postscript file that I would like to be able to use in WordPerfect, 
but WP requires EPS format.  I am not very knowledgeable about postscript in 
general and the relationship between postscript and encapsulated postscript, but 
I do understand the basic purpose/function of ps.  Can anyone suggest a way to 
convert a ps file to eps? If you could also try to explain the relationship, I 
would appreciate it.

Thanks 

Mark S. Whitsitt, N5RJF        Texas A&M University, Dept of Biochemistry
Internet:  msw1633@summa.tamu.edu 	  College Station, Tx. 77843-2128
AMPRnet:   n5rjf@n5rjf.ampr.org 			   (409) 845-0832
Packet/APLINK:  N5RJF @ KE5HE.TX.USA.NA
   "You can't throw darts when you're empty, man." - another Shadelism
From: clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: PCL to PS
Date: 20 Aug 92 00:07:49 GMT
Organization: Elegant Communications Inc., Ottawa, Canada

In article <1992Aug18.154848.16357@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com> bennett@areaplg2.corp.mot.com writes:
>Are there any converts around to convert PCL format to Postscript.

hp2pbm converts all of PCL4 to PBMs, and the included pbm2ps will
generate the appropriate PostScript rasters.  It's slow, but
theoretically dot-per-dot identical.  A parallel port (or faster)
to your PostScript printer is essential to have this fast enough
to be useable.

hp2pbm and its two patches are in comp.sources.misc archives.
-- 
Chris Lewis; clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca; Phone: Canada 613 832-0541
Psroff 3.0 info: psroff-request@ferret.ocunix.on.ca
Ferret list: ferret-request@ferret.ocunix.on.ca
From: eaustin@ll.mit.edu (Eric J. Austin)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.idl-pvwave
Subject: Re: IDL Widget ID Numbers
Date: 18 Aug 92 13:42:05 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington MA
Originator: eaustin@ll.mit.edu (Eric J. Austin)


In article <1992Aug17.215803.28174@colorado.edu>, youngm@marble.Colorado.EDU (Matthew Young) writes:
|> 
|> Does anyone know if IDL uses unique id numbers (per run) for its widgets?
|> I suspect that this is the case, since IDL allows you to find a widget's
|> parent given its id number, but I need to know for sure.
|> 
|> Thanks.
|> 
|> mY

Yes, IDL uses a new widget id number each time it is run.

-- 
 Eric J. Austin                       EMAIL: eaustin@ll.mit.edu
Newsgroups: comp.lang.idl-pvwave
From: greg@pvi.UUCP (Greg Holling x376)
Subject: Personal insults (was: PVI jerk toots own horn...)
Reply-To: ncar!pvi!greg()
Organization: Precision Visuals Inc., Boulder, Colorado
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 20:54:09 GMT


I was disturbed by the followup to a message I posted the other
day, and I wasn't sure whether to reply or not.  The message is from
Alan Stein at MIT/Lincoln Lab.  Some excerpts follow:

> PV-MORON> 'nuff said.
>
> ...
>
> college. Apparantly, a few smart RSI engineers can do a lot more than a lot of
> stupid PV ones.
>
> ... lots 'o' stuff deleted ...
>
> what I needed...Anybody get that kind of service from Precision Visuals? 
>
> ...
>
> *************>  Stay Away from PVI, folks!!!  Buy IDL!!!  <****************
>

I don't know Alan, so I can't say what would have prompted this
sort of personal attack on me or Precision Visuals, Inc.  I believe
that we provide high-quality software at a competitive price, and that
we have an outstanding engineering group.   I'd guess that any of the
staff at RSI would say the same about themselves.

I sincerely hope that my fellow netters (and the sysadmin that controls 
Alan's net access) will agree to get the discussions on this newsgroup 
back on a more professional level.

- Greg
-- 
Greg Holling			|	Voice: (303) 530-9000
Senior Member, Engineering	|	FAX:   (303) 530-9329
Precision Visuals, Inc.		|	boulder!pvi!greg
="Beam me up, Scotty - there's no intelligent life down here."=
Newsgroups: comp.lang.idl-pvwave,gnu.emacs.help
From: youngm@marble.Colorado.EDU (Matthew Young)
Subject: IDL Widget ID Numbers
Originator: youngm@marble
Reply-To: youngm@marble.Colorado.EDU (Matthew Young)
Organization: Center for Study of Earth from Space, U of Colorado, Boulder
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 21:58:03 GMT


Does anyone know if IDL uses unique id numbers (per run) for its widgets?
I suspect that this is the case, since IDL allows you to find a widget's
parent given its id number, but I need to know for sure.

Thanks.

mY
 
Newsgroups: comp.lang.idl-pvwave
From: mpfh@pvi.UUCP (Peter Hallett x344)
Subject: re: PVI jerk [the search for truth]
Reply-To: ncar!pvi!mpfh()
Organization: Precision Visuals Inc., Boulder, Colorado
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 22:49:43 GMT


As you may recall, on 19 Aug 92 17:07:31, alans@ll.mit.edu writes:

Alan>...PVI jerk...
Alan>...PV-MORON...

Gosh, Alan, do you know something about Greg that I don't? 

Alan>...you charge way more...

List price for a PV-WAVE floating license is 20% higher than for an IDL 
floating license.  I've never thought of 20% as "way".  If you want 
multiple users to simultaneously access a fixed copy on a SPARCstation,
the IDL license costs more than PV-WAVE.  If you want to share one copy 
between two or more architectures, IDL maintenance costs more.  These 
are common usage scenarios.  PV-WAVE Point & Click costs less than IDL.  
Just the facts...

Alan>...for the same basic product...

_Maybe_ before PV-WAVE Version 4.0.

Alan>...no programmable X Widgets...

It IS a little early for you to have heard of Version 4.01 (September).

Alan>...give me what I needed...

If you didn't need date/time functions, raytracing for volumetric data, 
SQL-based table manipulation, unnamed structures, shared access to WAVE 
variables, etc., sorry.  Lots of other people do.  Sure, RSI has been 
releasing new functions (Widgets, Gridding, Mapping, Volume Slicer, etc.) 
but if you look, you will find that WAVE includes new functions also, 
including those listed.

Alan>...this is no place to advertise...
Alan>...Buy IDL!!!

Greg's original post was factual; your statement looks like advertising.  

From time to time PVI people may comment when something being passed 
about as universal truth is not.  And apparently some vendors (PVI) 
can't use the net to communicate relevant facts with fellow readers 
without generating heat from IDL zealots, but it is OK for other 
commercial vendors (RSI) to distribute _demos_ over the net. Hmm. 

-- 
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Precision Visuals, Inc.  /|  / |\  take a breath, and cut away the vines"
303/530-9000            / | /  | \__   from the new film of nature 
{boulder,ncar}!pvi!mpfh /_________/    The Third Stone from the Sun
From: gsh7w@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Hennessy)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.idl-pvwave
Subject: Re: PVI jerk toots own horn on net [flame; how'd you guess? :-]
Date: 20 Aug 92 18:40:52 GMT
Organization: University of Virginia

Could the flames please be stopped?

So far this has been a *VERY* high S/N noisegroup, where lots of
questions are promptly answered.

I, and many others, would like this to continue.

Please no more IDL/PV-WAVE flames.

--
-Greg Hennessy, University of Virginia
 USPS Mail:     Astronomy Department, Charlottesville, VA 22903-2475 USA
 Internet:      gsh7w@virginia.edu  
 UUCP:		...!uunet!virginia!gsh7w
From: ritscher@crd.ge.com (David E. Ritscher)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.idl-pvwave
Subject: IDL and PV-Wave
Date: 21 Aug 92 13:39:07 GMT
Followup-To: IDL and PV-Wave
Organization: GE CR&D

There has been a lot of amusing but perhaps not technically
informative discussions on IDL vs PV-Wave.  I use IDL, so I am not
familiar with where PV-Wave has progressed to since the parting of
ways of Research Systems and  Precision Visuals.  It strikes
me that it could be useful for the readers of this news group to compare
the two packages features.  I would appreciate it if some PV-Wave users
discuss features added to PV-Wave since the split-off.

As was mentioned, there is now a release of IDL (i.e., IMSL/IDL) that
gives full access to the IMSL library.  This is, of course, a joint
release between Research Systems and the IMSL folks.

Other additions to IDL include the 3-D display capabilities: the
Z-buffer driver, the ability to do surface rendering (shade_surf),
volume rendering (shade_volume and polyshade), and light source
modeling for surface display, the ability to display 2- and 3-D
triangulated data (or other data on irregular gridding) or regrid to a
rectangular grid, and finally, the ability to project an image into an
arbitrary 3-D plane (polyfill), which can be used for displaying
slices through 3-D data.  Now if Research System will just add
translucent display of 3-D data, I'd be ecstatic!

Did the 3-D capabilities get added to PV-Wave?  How about the Widget
capabilities?

The current version of IDL can be down-loaded via internet (or SPAN,
for the VMS folks).  RSI will authorize use of this for a trial
period.  This could help PV-Wave users investigate the differences.
Does Precision Visuals, Inc have anything similar?  The FTP servers
that have IDL are: gateway.rsinc.com (192.5.156.17) ( via a 56KB link)
and boulder.colorado.edu (128.138.240.1) For both, log in as ftp with
password <userid>@<localhost>.  IDL is in the directory pub/idl, in
compressed format (.Z).

What other features were added to IDL?  Will someone comment on additions
to PV-Wave since the September 1990 end of their connection with RSI

David Ritscher
GE CR&D
K1-4C9, P.O. Box 8
Schenectady, NY 12301
ritscher@crd.ge.com
Newsgroups: comp.lang.idl-pvwave