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From: mag@minerva.inesc.pt (Manuel Gamito)
Subject: Re: Showcase text capabilities (they need improvement)
Organization: INESC - Inst. Eng. Sistemas e Computadores, LISBOA. PORTUGAL.
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 22:01:14 GMT

In article <27JAN199314555020@zeus.tamu.edu> efw5565@zeus.tamu.edu (Evelyn Wells) writes:
>I'm using Showcase 2.0.3, and I'm not very happy with the text 
>capabilities it offers.  Why can't the fonts be antialiased?
>Why can't you choose ANY font size (instead of selecting from 
>only a few set sizes)?  Please, please tell me this will be
>fixed soon....  
>
>Evelyn 
>efw5565@zeus.tamu.edu

Allow me to add one more small complaint.
Why aren't there any punctuation signs for latin and germanic
languages? (The world is not just the US, you know? :-)

Thats all...
-- 
Manuel Noronha Gamito, INESC          		| email: mag@minerva.inesc.pt
R. Alves Redol, 9 Apartado 10105		| mcsun!inesc!mag@uunet.UU.NET
1017 LISBOA CODEX				| Phone: +351 1 3100094
PORTUGAL					| Fax:   +351 1 525843
From: calvin@dinkum.mti.sgi.com (Calvin H. Vu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: f77 won't work on my Crimson
Date: 22 Jan 93 18:56:04 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA

In <35142@adm.brl.mil> jparker@aurora (John V. Parker (NASA/MSFC/ES44)) writes:

>It took us a while (3+ months!) to get around to trying out the FORTRAN
>compiler on our Crimson/VGX [too many other neat things to play with ;-) ],
>but upon doing so we discovered that f77 (actually ugen) core dumps on even
>the most trivial code:
>	program test
>	write(*,*) '!11-PDP eht edisni deppart m''I !pleH'
>	stop
>	end

>The error message is usually:
>	Fatal error in: /usr/lib/ugen  Signal 10 - core dumped

	My guess is that you are mixing a new fcom (FTN) with an old 
    development option (IDE) which includes ugen.  Since I can't reproduce
    the problem with anything I have, that remains a rough guess.  The
    TAC people are much more familiar with this type of problem than I
    do.

- calvin
From: bob@caw2.4950tw.wpafb.af.mil (Bob Plested)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Mailbox program (fwd)
Date: 21 Jan 93 18:10:33 GMT

Chris Carlson writes...
> 
> In <utre5vo@zola.esd.sgi.com> schuman@kaweah.esd.sgi.com (Aaron Schuman) writes:
> 
> >Bob P>  whenever I exit mail, causing the mailbox to zip back to its
> >Bob P>  closed picture, I get: "mailbox: Error 0" in my console window.
> 
> >Yeah, it bothered me too.  Now I launch mailbox with standard error
> >redirected to /dev/null.  I'm a happy man again.
> 
> 
> That's strange.  I've been using mailbox on all the releases and never get
> a mailbox error.  Is there something you're doing differently?
> 
> I run mailbox from .login with the following command:
> 
> 	    /usr/sbin/mailbox -b -L34 -M120 -S $USER -m "Mail -n"
> 	

I also get the "mailbox: Error 0" message, I only started getting it after I
upgraded to Irix 4.0.5. It's not a function of the specific mail program
either; I get that same message whether I use mail, Mail or elm. Note that 
the error message only appears in the window that launched Mailbox. If that
window is deleted I'll never see it. 

bob
------------
Bob Plested                    bob@caw2.4950tw.wpafb.af.mil
4950th Test Wing/FFXD              134.136.241.11 
Wright-Patterson AFB, OH           (513) 257-6809 DSN 787-6809

When the going gets wierd, the wierd turn pro.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: heiko@chemie.fu-berlin.de (Heiko Schlichting)
Subject: Re: Showcase text capabilities (they need improvement)
X-Format: RFC822/1036
Organization: Free University of Berlin, Dept. of Chemistry
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 15:16:59 GMT

mag@minerva.inesc.pt (Manuel Gamito) writes:
> efw5565@zeus.tamu.edu (Evelyn Wells) writes:
>>I'm using Showcase 2.0.3, and I'm not very happy with the text 
>>capabilities it offers.  Why can't the fonts be antialiased?
>>Why can't you choose ANY font size (instead of selecting from 
>>only a few set sizes)?  Please, please tell me this will be
>>fixed soon....  
>
>Allow me to add one more small complaint.
>Why aren't there any punctuation signs for latin and germanic
>languages? (The world is not just the US, you know? :-)

Fortunately it is possible to create national language characters in
showcase. It is only difficult to find out:

Typing "a" then Alt-Backspace then Ctrl-Alt-u creates the German a-umlaut.

Ctrl-Alt-u are the two points and Alt-Backspace means to overwrite the
last character. Alt-Ctrl-s creates the German sharp s ("sz).

Hope this helps.

Heiko

PS: I agree that more font sizes are really needed.
--
Heiko Schlichting               heiko@Chemie.FU-Berlin.DE
Freie Universitaet Berlin, Institut fuer Kristallographie
From: frank@marvin.contex.com (Frank Perdicaro)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Iomega Bernoulli disk on Iris ???
Date: 22 Jan 93 15:44:04 GMT
Organization: Xyvision Design Systems

In article <24812@hacgate.SCG.HAC.COM> lee@turbo4.rsg.hac.com (C. Lee) writes:
>Does anyone know about connecting Bernoulli drives to SGI's?  

Yes, DTI's TransferPro, available from SGI Express.  I have used it,
found some bugs and had them corrected.  Seems to work as advertised.
-- 
	 Frank Evan Perdicaro 				Xyvision Color Systems
      Legalize guns, drugs and cash...today.		101 Edgewater Drive
   inhouse: frank@marvin, x5572				Wakefield MA
outhouse: frank@contex.com, 617-245-4100x5572		018801285
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi,comp.sys.sgi.apps
From: KHELMRIC@vms3.macc.wisc.edu (KHELMRIC)
Subject: Medical Applications
Organization: UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - MADISON
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 05:52:37 GMT
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.24


I am a medical student at the University of Wisconsin Medical School who
is interested in developing an SGI NeuroAnatamy tutorial and reference.

My knowledge of the SGI platform is very limited, but I have prior 
computer programming and development skills.  I am interested
in getting feedback about any of the following questions:

(1)  Have other tutorial or reference systems been developed for Medicine 
using the SGI box?  Specifically, have other NeuroAnatomy or NeuroPhysiology
projects been attempted or designed?

(2)  What software would be used in developing such a product?  (I have
seen MedCAD mentioned.  How useful is this?)

(3)  Is the SGI environment the best platform to approach this issue?
(i.e. compared to a Mac or IBM environment.)


Thanks in advance for any information.
-Kevin Helmrick
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: miguel@boytoy.csd.sgi.com (Michael/Miguel Sanchez)
Subject: Re: Showcase text capabilities (they need improvement)
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 00:16:43 GMT

In article <27JAN199314555020@zeus.tamu.edu>, efw5565@zeus.tamu.edu (Evelyn Wells) writes:
|> I'm using Showcase 2.0.3, and I'm not very happy with the text 
|> capabilities it offers.  Why can't the fonts be antialiased?
|> Why can't you choose ANY font size (instead of selecting from 
|> only a few set sizes)?  Please, please tell me this will be
|> fixed soon....  
|> 
|> Evelyn 
|> efw5565@zeus.tamu.edu


these things are being addressed in the next release of showcase.

note that under version 2 there are some tricks to getting some of 
the things you are wanting.  What exactly do you mean by "antialiased"?

-- 
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Miguel (Michael) J. Sanchez
miguel@csd.sgi.com			
Member Technical Staff, Silicon Graphics, Inc.         
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: penev@venezia (Penio Penev)
Subject: Re: PostScript "Editor"
Organization: Rockefeller University
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 06:51:40 GMT
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Reply-To: penev@venezia.rockefeller.edu
X-Posted-From: venezia.rockefeller.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

Penio Penev (penev@venezia) wrote:
: David M. Senseman (senseman@lucy.brainlab.utsa.edu) wrote:
: : A friend of mine asked me to find out if there are any
: : software packages (hopefully free :) that can used to
: : "edit" a PostScript file on an Indigo (4.0.5F).
: : 
: : He's using Mathematica to generate graphs of data sets
: : and wanted something that could be used to manipulate
: : titles, arrows, etc.
: : 
: 
: Intepreting PS is not a trivial task. I think Adobe has Adobe
: Illustarator, which tries to do this, or part of it. 
: 
: The better way to solve the problem is to look where it originated -
: Mathematica. It has a lot of setup parameters for controlling the
: outlook of graphs.  Perhaps a RTFM would help.

Well I located and read TFM. Its name is 

Mathematica
A system for doing mathematics by computer
by Stephen Wolfram
Adison-Welsley Publishing Company, Inc
ISBN 0-201-19334-5; 0-201-19330-2 (pbk)
chapter 1.8 Graphics

I can now understand the question. The parametrers that are optional
are very few. I can imaging situations, when they are not enough. 

: 
: If the graph generation in Mathematica is poorly written, but the PS
: driver is well written, a text editor and a PS manual would do the
: job. One might be able sustitute the punctions for drawing labels,
: axes etc. Of course, he will have a xpsview or ghostscript window
: constantly popped to test the interventions.

: 
: I myself am interested in a good way to generate 2D graphs and haven't
: found the sollution. Mathematica certaily is not. If anybody has,
: please let me know.

More than ever.

: 
: -- Penio.
: 

-- Penio.
From: rupley@cs.arizona.edu (John Rupley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: PostScript "Editor"
Summary: S
Date: 27 Jan 93 17:46:30 GMT
Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson

In article <1993Jan27.043251.15230@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> penev@venezia.rockefeller.edu writes:
>I myself am interested in a good way to generate 2D graphs and haven't
>found the sollution. Mathematica certaily is not. If anybody has,
>please let me know.

S has a good postscript driver, that supports output ranging from a quickie
view of data to a user-designed graph suitable for publication.
For samples, see books by Chambers and colleagues (e.g., "The New S
Language").

John Rupley
Biochemistry

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: cboesel@iat.holonet.net (Charles Boesel)
Subject: help for gcc on indigo
Organization: HoloNet National Internet Access BBS: 510-704-1058/modem
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1993 00:24:32 GMT

I FTP'ed the gcc binaries for my Indigo from stanford today, but still
can't get the compiler to run because I need the proper libraries and
other files for it (I think).

Is there anyone who can tell me what else I need in addition to the
gcc binary package from Stanford to compile c programs?

Send e-mail if you can help!
Thanks.
cboesel@holonet.net
charles boesel
510.933.5483

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: dhinds@leland.Stanford.EDU (David Hinds)
Subject: Re: PostScript "Editor"
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 07:16:28 GMT

In article <1993Jan27.043251.15230@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> penev@venezia.rockefeller.edu writes:
>
>I myself am interested in a good way to generate 2D graphs and haven't
>found the sollution. Mathematica certaily is not. If anybody has,
>please let me know.

I've been using 'xmgr', which is a motif-based 2D plotting package
available from ftp.ccalmr.ogi.edu.  It allows a lot of interactive
control over graph formatting -- much more than gnuplot.  It has
some problems -- the appearance of things on the screen does not 
always match the appearance of things on paper.  But with frequent
use of a PostScript previewer, I can usually get things to come
out the way I want.

As a warning, I had problems building xmgr with the latest SGI
compilers (3.10).  The executable had some serious bugs, even when
I compiled with all optimizations disabled.  I didn't try too hard
to track down the problem, though, because compiling with gcc-2.2.2
seemed to fix the problems.

        - David Hinds
          dhinds@allegro.stanford.edu
Xref: sparky comp.sys.sgi:19198 comp.sys.sgi.hardware:225
From: meg5184@hertz.njit.edu (Starman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi,comp.sys.sgi.hardware
Subject: * Can an external SCSI device connect to an Indigo?
Date: 28 Jan 93 18:43:03 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

I need to know if I can connect an external Macintosh hard drive (with a
UNIX partiion) to an Iris Indigo Elan 4000. There IS a SCSI port, but
all the documentation says that it can only be accessed by a CD-ROM.
Please E-mail me ASAP.

=============================== Mike Gaines ============================
= WHAT is your name?............................Captain Jean-Luc Picard=
= WHAT is your quest?.............................I seek the Holy Grail=
= WHAT is the average velocity of a Bird of Prey?...Romulan or Klingon?=
=                        I.....I don't know AAAAAHHHHH!                =
========================== meg5184@hertz.njit.edu ======================
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From: ccoprrm@prism.gatech.EDU (Robert E. Minsk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Bug in gr_osview
Summary: 2nd column is twice as slow as first
Date: 21 Jan 93 08:18:26 GMT
Organization: Information Technology - High Performace Computing


  I am running gr_osview on a (2.5)40 GTX (processors 0, 1 are 33 Mhz and 2, 3
are 25 MHz).  I have set it for two columns using "opt width(2)".  For some
reason the second column is updated twice as slow as the first.  My .grosview
file is as follows:
opt     font(CharterBT-Roman) width(2)
cpu(0)  strip interval(2)
cpu(1)  strip interval(2)
cpu(2)  strip interval(2)
cpu(3)  strip interval(2)
rmem    strip interval(2)
wait    strip interval(2)

-- 
Robert E. Minsk - Information Technology | After WREKage their is Ruins...   |
ARPA: ccoprrm@prism.gatech.edu           | Fridays at 10pm WREK Atlanta 91.1 |
uucp: ...!{allegra,amd,hplabs,seismo,ut-ngp}!gatech!prism!ccoprrm
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
From: mberger@relay.nswc.navy.mil
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: TAE+
Date: 21 Jan 93 21:48:19 GMT


Does anyone have TAE+ on their SGI workstations?  Looking for general
impressions and comparison to other packages.

--Mike Bergeron mberger@relay.nswc.navy.mil
--EG&G (WASC) Dahlgren, VA. 22448
From: LEVINE%FIDLER.decnet@sunman.chinalake.navy.mil
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Text/Icons randomly have wrong size
Date: 26 Jan 93 21:10:26 GMT


	I have an IRIS 4D/240 (twin tower) recently upgraded from
4.0.4 to 4.0.5(a) that now exhibits (randomly) the following strange 
behavior on the graphics tube.
	The login screen ( with visual logins enabled).
		-border surrounding icons oversized
		-user names under icons too large
		-login/password prompt strings over sized
		-text in login username/password windows oversized
		-system_id name in lower left had corner oversized
	  any combination or permuation of the above from no distortion
	  to usually no more that 2 of the above at one time.


	Logged in
		-Workspace - 0/1/2/3 folder or other icons oversized.
		-EMACS-  ocassionaly a window comes up oversized with
			oversized characters. Quit and restart, and
			it comes up proper sized.
		-calendar - sometimes the month days are oversized while
			the date numbers are microscopic.
		-Subscreens under system manager tool, sometimes icons are
			over sized and letters on buttons microscopic.

I can go on but you can see the pattern. This whole thing seems to have 
started about the time I upgraded from 4.0.4 to 4.0.5. There are 3 other 
systems also that have been upgraded from 4.0.4. to 4.0.5 (280,PI,240) 
and show no signs of this problem.

	In a fit of desperation, I brought up miniroot and removed
all vestiges of IRIX and any layered products and went to the miniroot
shell to find and remove any system files that might be left over (includeing
the installation history files but not the files read by chkconfig). 
Then I installed everything from scratch from IRIX through layered products 
to maint tapes. Before leaving miniroot, I restored such files as
passwd,hosts,groups,sys_id. Then I booted up the new system, 
the problem showed up again. The only positive note is that I seem to have
freed up a surprizeing amount of disk space (unused stuff that has 
accumulated since 3.3.1).
	What could cause random Icon oversize or text over/under size???
Any sugestions as to what else to try????

Michael N. LeVine  Naval Air Weapons Station, China Lake, Ca 93555, USA
Internet: levine%fidler.decnet@chinalake.navy.mil
(619) 939-2614  avn  437-2614 

 "Waiter, there's a bug in my soup!"        
 "No, Sir, it's not a bug, it's a feature!" 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: mark@sidefx.uucp (Mark Elendt)
Subject: Problem with bgnpoint on ELAN under 4.0.5F
Summary: When using bgnpoint/endpoint colors aren't drawn correctly.
Keywords: ELAN bgnpoint endpoint IRIX 4.0.5F
Organization: Side Effects Software Inc.
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 20:59:02 GMT


I'm having a problem with bgnpoint/endpoint on an ELAN running
IRIX 4.0.5F.  When the following program is run, instead of a
green fill, I get a pure white fill when bgnpoint/endpoint is used.
The program runs just fine on a vanilla Indigo, an XS24, a 4D20,
and on a 4D35.  However, not all of these machines were running
IRIX 4.0.5F.

I'm wondering if this has been fixed in a later version of IRIX,
or if anyone has a workaround (I'm not too keen on using rectfi()
or recti() to draw a single pixel).

--- CUT HERE ----- CUT HERE ----- CUT HERE ---- CUT HERE ---
    /* cc % -lgl_s
     */
    #include <stdio.h>

    #define WINSIZ	100

    main()
    {
	int		v[2];

	foreground();
	prefsize(WINSIZ, WINSIZ);
	winopen("Elan Test");
	RGBmode();
	singlebuffer();
	gconfig();

	RGBcolor((short)255, (short)0, (short)0);
	clear();
	printf("1) There should be a red square\n");
	sleep(2);

	RGBcolor((short)0, (short)255, (short)0);
	bgnpoint();
	for (v[0] = 0; v[0] < WINSIZ; v[0]++)
	    for (v[1] = 0; v[1] < WINSIZ; v[1]++)
		v2i(v);
	endpoint();
	printf("2) There should be a green square\n");
	sleep(2);
    }
--- CUT HERE ----- CUT HERE ----- CUT HERE ---- CUT HERE ---

___________________________________________________________________
Mark Elendt				Side Effects Software Inc.,
UUCP:	  mark@sidefx.uucp		Toronto, Ontario Canada
Internet: sidefx!mark@canrem.com	(416) 366-4607
From: din@gradient.cis.upenn.edu (Clarence Din)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Creating Users with more than 8 chars?
Date: 26 Jan 93 01:18:57 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

Can user login names exceed 8 characters in IRIX 4?  I successfully
created an account with a login name of 9 letters.  When I do an ls -l
on that acct, I see:

file   xxxxxxxxxyyyyy  etc etc...

where xxxxxxxxx is the login name and yyyyy is the group.  There is
no space between the x's and y's.  Besides this problem, are there
any others I have to worry about?
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Clarence K. Din
Information Systems Specialist III, Dept of Chemistry, Univ of Pennsylvania
din@gradient.cis.upenn.edu
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Too many toys (D-50+M-EX, U-220, SR-16, TurboDuo, SNES, Mac IIsi, HP48SX)
and too little time!
From: ems@work.wpd.sgi.com (Ed Sesek)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: PostScript Printer Info...
Date: 21 Jan 93 17:14:18 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA

In <SIMON.93Jan21143532@liasg2.epfl.ch> simon@lia.di.epfl.ch (Simon Leinen) writes:

>In article <35140@adm.brl.mil> macleod@vissgi.cvrti.utah.edu (Rob
>MacLeod) writes:

>   We have been really pleased with the HP IIIsi and can recommend it
>   without reservation.  I don't know about direct connection to the
>   SGIs but using the CAP/Appletalk route, we have excellent speed and
>   stability.  And we were able to put the whole thing together with
>   public domain software (lp2ps and CAP) and thus save a few dollars.

>We have an HPIIISi connected to the parallel port of an Indigo and I can
>also highly recommend this printer.  Especially the duplex option is a
>big win.  The problem with parallel communication is that the connection
>to the printer is so fast that you usually don't have a chance to cancel
>a job once you've sent it.  There also doesn't seem to be a way to get
>status messages back from the printer (other than printing them, of
>course :-).  But it's really fast (and works even without any additional
>software ;-).

Note that the SRS Imager 17D-II that SGI resells through Hardware Express
uses the same Canon engine (NX) as the HPIIISi.  So you get the same
reliability and printer features (like the duplex option).  

The Imager 17D-II connects to the workstation using SCSI so you
get *really* fast data transfer rates PLUS full engine status reporting.
Using the Impressario graphical interface you get real-time status
on things like out-of-paper, stacker full, low toner, paper jam, etc.
So, yes, you do need some additional software, but on the other hand
you get an even better printing solution.

Ed Sesek
Silicon Graphics
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: vulture@imperial.ac.uk (Thomas Sippel - Dau)
Subject: Re: R4400 (was: Re: Multiprocessor Crimson?)
Reply-To: cmaae47@imperial.ac.uk
Organization: Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 17:27:46 GMT

In article <C180v5.L6q@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, ercolessi@uimrl3.mrl.uiuc.edu (furio ercolessi) writes:
- 
- i know this is one of the questions which have no answer, or any answer,
- because it's application-dependent, but *roughly*, what kind of improvement in 
- 64-bit floating point speed is expected from the R4400, with respect to the
- R4000?  +10%? +50%? +300%?
- 
Expect a maximum speed-up of 50 % (for a 150 MHz R4400 vs a 100 MHz R4000)
In some cases the bigger cache will give you more than that. That is for 
CP-bound processes. 

If it is PMB (processor memory bandwidth) bound, expect the ratio between 
the memory access speeds, again with some bonus for bigger cache. 

If bound by paging speed, you will see no improvement.

Most programs will be somewhere between the first two cases. Thus a 100/50
MHz R4000 will take about 50% more time than a 150/75 MHz R4400 to run the 
same program in the same memory, if the program uses the processor effectively.

                                    Thomas

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