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From: mas@everest.esd.sgi.com (Michael Schulman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: DXF Reader
Keywords: AutoCAD DXF
Date: 21 Aug 92 21:29:46 GMT
Reply-To: mas@sgi.com
Organization: Silicon Graphics Computer Systems, Mountain View, CA

In article <gln.714425372@brutus>, gln@iti.org (Glen Niebur) writes:
|> 
|> I know this has been asked before, and i apologize for not having listened.
|> Does anyone have some code to read an AutoCAD DXF file.  We want to read
|> the geometry in and do all of the things you can't do on a PC.  (e. g. get
|> a decent picture of it)
|> 

There are a few issues here.  SGI provides two "viewers" to those that purchase
Autocad from an SGI authorized dealer.  This is referred to as the Bonus
Software supplied from SGI. These viewers directly read dxf files
and then allow you to do all the things you would expect to be able to do
on SGI hardware.  These viewers are somewhat supported by SGI, but because
they are not OFFICIAL products, we can just give these out.

Soon, you might be able to read dxf files into a "supported" product.

|> TIA
|> 
|> glen
|> 
|> --
|> Glen Niebur     | These sobering sights i've seen in the city of angels
|> Mayo Clinic     | have all been one rude awakening that was due to me
|> Biomechanics Lab|  ...in heaven
|> gln@mayo.edu    |            ~Natalie Merchant

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Silicon Graphics Computer Systems
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Mountain View, CA 94039

mas@sgi.com
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From: cunning@arthur.msd.lmsc.lockheed.com (Dave Cunningham)
Subject: Re: Problem attaching Exabyte
Organization: Lockheed Missiles and Space Co.
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 01:03:23 GMT

In article <olu5hl4@zuni.esd.sgi.com> olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson) writes:
>In <1992Aug16.155546.24668@iscnvx.lmsc.lockheed.com> cunning@arthur.msd.lmsc.lockheed.com (Dave Cunningham) writes:
>| I'm trying to attach an Exabyte 8200 to an 4D25, and having some
>   ... stuff omitted...
>| when I try to start the system it hangs up somewhere between
>| 
>|  "Starting the system..."
>| and 
>|  "Irix 4.0.3..."
>| I can load sash with no problems, boot ide from there, and even boot
>| unix with -n and get indications that it loads;  it just won't run.
>
>You didn't by any chance change the kernel or the system disk at
>the same time did you?  Perhaps the kernel is trashed or the wrong
>one.  I'd try loading a miniroot and see if that works (or booting
>another 4D25 kernel over the net (from PROM monitor or sash, try
>bootp()somemachine:someunixfile ; the pathname must be allowed by
>tftpd on the server, see comments in /usr/etc/inetd.conf).
>
>If you disconnect the Exabyte, will the system boot normally?  If
>not, you probably have a bad /unix.


No, I didn't change the kernel or system disk.  Since my last posting
I built a new kernel with lboot, and got the same behavior.  Also, it
turns out that the problem is not just the third party exabyte.  I get
the same behaviour when I attach an SGI cdrom drive with SGI
cable/terminator- everything looks normal but unix dies somewhere
between loading (I can see that happen if I load sash and boot unix
from there) and the "Irix 4.x..." announcement.  I also loaded a working
kernel across the net and got the same behavior.  With only the
(internal) system disk on the bus everything works fine.  

I didn't mention it before, but my 4D25 is actually a 4D25S server- and
my problem seems similar to one posted today concerning booting 4.0.4 on
a 4D20S.  Is there some other obvious candidate as a corrupted file that
I could replace before I re-install everything ?



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From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: problem with netgroups
Keywords: netgroup,nfs
Date: 18 Aug 92 20:01:00 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA

In <1992Aug18.162648.13727@athena.mit.edu> chasman@athena.mit.edu (David Chasman) writes:
| I have a netgroup entry in the /etc/exports file
| 
| the netgroup exists, however, when I try to export my file systems
| with:
| 
| >>exportfs -av
| 
| I get :
| 
| exportfs: unknown host: m4-cluster
| re-exported /usr
| 
| I guess there's something wrong with my entry :
| 
| /usr	-access=m4-cluster:eastman2:dreyfus1:dreyfus2,rw=m4-cluster eastman2:dreyfus1:dreyfus2,root=eastman2:dreyfus1:dreyfus2

As explained in one of the sun groups, you don't get to use netgroups
in the rw= or root= fields.
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because whoever is silent dissents.             |   Silicon Graphics, Inc.
    Maria Isabel Barreno                        |   olson@sgi.com
From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Problem attaching Exabyte
Date: 19 Aug 92 04:49:18 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA

In <1992Aug19.010323.6813@iscnvx.lmsc.lockheed.com> cunning@arthur.msd.lmsc.lockheed.com (Dave Cunningham) writes:
| No, I didn't change the kernel or system disk.  Since my last posting
| I built a new kernel with lboot, and got the same behavior.  Also, it
| turns out that the problem is not just the third party exabyte.  I get
| the same behaviour when I attach an SGI cdrom drive with SGI
| cable/terminator- everything looks normal but unix dies somewhere
| between loading (I can see that happen if I load sash and boot unix
| from there) and the "Irix 4.x..." announcement.  I also loaded a working
| kernel across the net and got the same behavior.  With only the
| (internal) system disk on the bus everything works fine.  

It sure sounds to me like a SCSI cabling or connector problem.
Possibly the termpower fuse for the SCSI bus has been blown.

Even so, I wouldn't expect that to keep the kernel from booting,
although it might give errors during the boot.  A backwards
cable could do it though (those plastic connectors will fit
on the connector backwards quite nicely), and that might in
fact keep the kernel from booting on the 20 and 25.
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because whoever is silent dissents.             |   Silicon Graphics, Inc.
    Maria Isabel Barreno                        |   olson@sgi.com
From: jack@horton.umbc.edu (jack suess)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: 8mm tape drives, which are certified by SGI to work
Date: 14 Aug 92 15:07:06 GMT
Organization: University of Maryland Baltimore Campus

Hi,

I have just bid out five of the 5GB 8mm tape units. One of the bid 
requirements was "The Drive must be certified by SGI and can be used
as standalone boot device". I have received responses from 
Transitional technologies, Inc.
Contemporary Cybernetics

Can anyone from SGI comment where either of these drives have been certified
to work on SGI Crimson machines. 

Also, I would be interested in hearing from customers any good/bad feelings
you have about either company.

--
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From: george@tusk.med.harvard.edu (George Planansky)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: toggle power of internal exabyte -- how ?
Date: 14 Aug 92 16:04:18 GMT
Reply-To: gplanansky@tusk.med.harvard.edu
Organization: Harvard Medical School, Boston MA

Can I safely toggle the power to an internally mounted exabyte 8200
on an SGI (4D/380) without toggling the power to the SGI?

The damn thing goes into idiot-mode, spitting out tapes, and
I want to apply the paddles to make it straighten out and fly right,
without bringing down the machine.


--
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Department of Biological Chemistry & Molecular Pharmacology
Harvard University Medical School, 240 Longwood Ave., Boston, MA 02115
email: gplanansky@tusk.med.harvard.edu
phone: (617) 432-3919
fax:   (617) 432-4360
From: joseph.maddry@matrix.sbs.com (Joseph Maddry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: list
Date: 13 Aug 92 22:37:26 GMT


Date:        Tue, Aug. 11, 1992
From:        Joseph Maddry  <joseph.maddry@matrix.sbs.com>
Newsgroups:  comp.sys.sgi




                                            REMOVE   MY    NAME   !!!!










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From: atems@hal.physics.wayne.edu (Dale Atems)
Subject: 16-inch Indigo monitors: Sony vs. Mitsubishi
Organization: Dept. of Physics, Wayne State Univ.
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 16:25:00 GMT

Does anyone with experience with both the Sony and Mitsubishi 16-inch Indigo
monitors have an opinion about the relative quality/reliability of the two?
The reason I ask is the following:

Within a month of receiving my entry Indigo system, my original Sony monitor
began (apparently) to arc intermittently: there would be a snapping sound
coming from somewhere in back, and the entire screen would go momentarily
blank. Other than this problem, I was quite satisfied with the quality of the
picture. Naturally, I called the TAC and they were quite prompt about returning
my call and getting out a "new" monitor to me. (I quote the word "new" because
it was obviously a used monitor with extensive signs of wear on the base --- 
but that's another topic.)

This second monitor, also a Sony, had two problems from the start: 1). the
brightness would fluctuate wildly, especially upon power-up (though it never
quite settled down completely), and 2). the screen image was slightly - but
noticeably - distorted, with both vertical and horizontal grid lines bowed
inward toward the center (using the convergence grid Confidence Test). When
I complained my call was returned not by an engineer, but by someone from
Logistics. To make a long story short, this person told me that SGI had
received many customer complaints about the Sony monitors and that they were
currently being phased out in favor of Mitsubishis. Still, she insisted on
sending me another Sony monitor as a replacement.

Today my third Sony monitor arrived, and though it doesn't seem to be on its
last legs, it has the same image distortion problem as my second monitor,
slightly worse in fact. Maybe I'm being picky, but at a $3500 list price I
expect better quality than this.

So I ask: is image distortion a "feature" of the older Sony monitors? Do the
Mitsubishi monitors suffer from this problem also? If the Sonys are being
phased out, in what way are the Mitsubishis superior? Should I insist on
being sent one as a replacement or try to live with what I have?

For the record, the manufacture dates on my three monitors, in order from
original to most recent, are: 3/92, 1/92, and 6/91.

Thanks in advance,

Dale Atems
Wayne State University, Department of Physics and Astronomy

E-mail replies welcome.
Send e-mail to atems@igor.physics.wayne.edu
From: paton@ug.cs.dal.ca (Mark A. Paton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: flight on an Indigo XS
Date: 20 Aug 92 13:07:14 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Math, Stats & CS, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada


   When I try to run dog/flight on my Indigo XS I get the error 
message: "You need > 8 bit planes to run". My understanding was 
that the Indigo XS is a virtual 24 bit machine so why do I get
this error message. (flight_8bit / dog_8bit work fine.)

Thanks for any info.

Mark Paton                                  paton@wolf.ocean.dal.ca
Dalhousie University, Oceanography.
From: frank@marvin.contex.com (Frank Perdicaro)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Numerical errors with xcalc?
Date: 18 Aug 92 15:03:44 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Xyvision Design Systems

In article <1992Aug18.043858.18153@cs.yale.edu> dave@doctor.chem.yale.edu (David Maxwell) writes:
>Hello folks,
>
>This may be better answer for another group, but I don't know which one.
>Anyhow, I was wondering why xcalc stores numbers with only 5 decimal
>places valid.  I was doing the following calculation in rpn mode :
> ...
>Is there any way to get better precision out of xcalc?
>
>Dave Maxwell (dave@doctor.chem.yale.edu)

I do not like to complain too much, because I am generally quite
happy with the SGI machines that I use, but I must agree with this
guy.  

With NeWS, we got a calculator that could neither add, subtract,
multiply or divide.  With the coming of X, people said 'xcalc is
great!  best thing ever'.  Withing 25 seconds of using it the first
time, I found two really bad precision errors.  I complained to the 
TAC, and on the net, and was told to take a walk.

Come on, this is a sophmore year, semester's end project!  Build a 
calculator that uses BCD and can intelligently say "I have an error".
I realize the difficulties associated with the transcendental
functions, but this still is not that difficult.  There is really 
no excuse to have such a bad calculator.  It would be better to delete
it from the distribution than to still ship it.

Sombody out there at SGI will probably flame me for this, but I have
been around and around for YEARS on this exact same issue, and SGI
still ships a bad calculator.  It grew old long ago....

I use my $20 Radio Shaft calculator, or the one built into my
terminal... but I still like my Irides.



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From: gold@puck.esd.sgi.com (Michael Gold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: using the X event queue in a GL window
Date: 22 Aug 92 17:30:21 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA

In <!sjy!yq@rpi.edu> kyriazis@mistral.rdrc.rpi.edu (George Kyriazis) writes:

>I am using X and GL at the same time.  I want to have one event loop for
>both my X interface and the GL window.

>Is there a way to grab X events that occur on a GL window?  That looks like
>the best way so far, but I can't tell how to treat the GL graphics window
>as an X entity.

Are you running under 4.0 or later?  If not, you should be...if so,
the problem is a lot easier than you are making it.  To combine X and GL in
a single application (if you are using Xt), use the GlxDraw widget, or the
GlxMDraw widget if you using Motif.  Your GL window will then be an actual
X window, and events will be dispatched as you wish.  Check out the examples
in ~4Dgifts/examples/GLX/glxwidget/demos.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: joseph@chem.ualberta.ca (Tom Joseph)
Subject: Installing 4.x on 4d70GT
Summary: Needs help in reading the distribution tape or CD from a Sun to IRIS
Keywords: IRIX4.x Install 4d70GT help reading CD
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
Distribution: comp.sys.sgi
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 17:37:05 GMT

 The attempt to upgrade our IRIS4D/70GT to IRIX4.01 has left me 
 frustrated and stranded. I am posting the story hoping that some
 kind soul out there will be able to help me...

 When we ordered the upgrade we were told that SGI has switch 
 over to CD-ROM as the distribution media and in order to get
 the upgrade on a tape suitable for our machine we need to pay
 extra. When the tape arrived our machine couldn't read it and
 it turned out that it was meant for QIC150 drive while we got
 QIC24. Now, the  sales engineer says that to install the new
 operating system  we need to invest in either a QIC150 drive
 or a CD-ROM reader- 
 Since our IRIS is connected to a SUN by TCP/IP I am looking
 into the possibility of using its tape drive or CD-ROM drive
 to install the software on the IRIS. How do I read the content 
 of the high density tape into a directory on the IRIS using the 
 drive on the sun? Are the formats compatible? Any help or
 suggestions will be highly appreciated.

 Tom
 In charge of a machine without an OS
From: blue@cam.nist.gov (Jim Blue)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Fortran error, 4.0.1
Date: 20 Aug 92 14:41:13 GMT
Organization: National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD

The following simple program illustrates a bug in Fortran under Irix 4.0.1.
Isn't the implied do loop supposed to be legal?

      integer ires(9, 9)
      integer diag(9)
      do 100 j = 1, 9
         do 100 k = 1, 9
            ires(j, k) = 10 * j + k
  100 continue
      write(*, 999) (ires(j,j), j = 1, 9)
      do 200 j = 1, 9
         diag(j) = ires(j, j)
  200 continue
      write(*, 999) (diag(j), j = 1, 9)
  999 format(9i4)
      stop
      end

----- The above is in junk.f -----

>f77 junk.f
>a.out
  10  10   0   0   0   0   0****   0
  11  22  33  44  55  66  77  88  99
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From: cunning@arthur (Dave Cunningham)
Subject: Re: Problem attaching Exabyte
Organization: Lockheed Missiles and Space Co.
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 92 17:09:20 GMT

olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson) writes:
: 
: It sure sounds to me like a SCSI cabling or connector problem.
: Possibly the termpower fuse for the SCSI bus has been blown.
: 
: Even so, I wouldn't expect that to keep the kernel from booting,

Turned out to be one of the fuses on the emod...  I don't know which is which.
It wasn't blown, but wasn't seated in its socket.  Moving the system around
probably put it over the edge to open.

Thanks for the help, Dave, on this and hundreds of other things.  Hope
your management realizes how much your efforts are appreciated in (some
subset of) the user community.  You do more to keep me in an sgi-buying
frame of mind than boxcars-full of glossys.

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From: joseph.maddry@matrix.sbs.com (Joseph Maddry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: list
Date: 13 Aug 92 22:50:48 GMT

Date:        Tue, Aug. 11, 1992
From:        Joseph Maddry  <joseph.maddry@matrix.sbs.com>
Newsgroups:  comp.sys.sgi





PLEASE









Joseph Maddry
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From: pjf@osiris.cs.uoguelph.ca (Peter Jaspers-Fayer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Subscription confirmation
Date: 21 Aug 92 20:09:55 GMT

Paulo Tiberio M. Bulhoes wrote:
> 
> Dear Mr. Kennedy,
[...] 
> like to know if the list is active or not...
[...]

Yep, the list is active (I read it that way, even though I have news
access.  I prefer it that way, as I control when the articles disappear
instead of my news server).

By the way, the moderator is kermit@BRL.MIL (Chuck Kennedy), you may get
better response by mailing him directly instead of broadcasting to the list.

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From: root@itnsg1.cineca.it (Valter Cavecchia)
Subject: Re: BLAS, scientific subroutines etc.
Organization: Laboratorio di Fisica Computazionale, INFM. Trento Italia
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 08:29:20 GMT

root@itnsg1.cineca.it (Valter Cavecchia) writes:

>I noticed that SGI gave use a version of the BLAS routines.
>However BLAS itself is very low level, what I'm looking for is something
>like Linpack (a set of Fortran callable subroutines that are able to do
>matrix diagonalization, eigenvalues and so on).
>Is there anything around (BLAS based and already ported to SGI)?

>	Thanks a lot in advance,
>	valter

ok, thanks a lot to everyone that answer my question.
Everyone pointed me to LAPACK (which is the evolution of LINPACK+EISPACK),
it seems that this set of routines is the state of the art of the 
matrix manipulation software (and is public domain, or something like that).
The good news is that SGI people already ported LAPACK to the SGI machines,
the software may be downloaded from sgi.com (beware of the files size!).
LAPACK is based on BLAS which is already available for SGI computers
(parallelized and optimized), therefore the performance should be very good.

	Thanks a lot again,
	valter
From: fouts@exacto.dallas.sgi.com (Christopher Fouts)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: BattleZone??  What is it?
Date: 14 Aug 92 19:00:02 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics (Dallas, TX)

In article <1992Aug14.122045.29318@swlvx2.msd.ray.com>, lms@swlray.msd.ray.com (LEE MARDEN) writes:
|> 
|>   Just saw a post on a ground based simulation similar to Dog.  Is this
|> an SGI program?  If available for public use, which FTP sites carry it?
|> 
|>   AdvThanksance
|> 
|>   Lee Marden
|> 
|> -- 
|>   AdvThanksance,
|> 
|>   Lee S. Marden, lms@swlray.msd.ray.com
|>   Raytheon Company, Missile Systems Division, Tewksbury, MA 01876

There is a game running around SGI called bz (not quite Battlezone) that
is a arcade-like tank game.  It can be played in a network mode or against
the computer.  The graphics are pretty simple -- I wanted reasonable frame
rates on the low-end systems (it doesn't even need a z-buffer).

The source for bz was included on the Developer's Toolbox Version 2.1 CD.
(Note that does not entitle you to distribute the source. :^)  I believe
it will be included in a future release of IRIX.  At any rate, since it
looks like interest is growing, I'll see about making the executable
available via anonymous ftp.  I'll post here when I do.

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From: frank@marvin.contex.com (Frank Perdicaro)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: of shells and discs
Keywords: zsh, nfs
Date: 14 Aug 92 16:11:17 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Xyvision Design Systems

In article <o8pbsmk@zuni.esd.sgi.com> olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson) writes:
>In <1992Aug6.164104.26546@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca> johnb@physun.physics.mcmaster.ca (John Benjamins) writes:
>
>| In article <o3g7m8c@zuni.esd.sgi.com> olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson) writes:
>| >Hoping this isn't a joke, I answer seriously...
>| >There is no /etc/shells file on Irix.  You can create one, but
>| >it doesn't mean anything.  More than likely you have a typo
>| >in /etc/passwd for the shell pathname.  You can use system manager
>| >for this also.  An easier test is to modify the passwd file,

Not that this really matters much, but I did run into an IRIX login
shell bug that had us all perplexed.  If the beginning of the path
of the login shell specified in /etc/passwd was "/bin/s" it did not 
matter what it was, /bin/sh was run.  I think I was trying to run something
called "/bin/setup"; always got /bin/sh.  SGI eventually agreed this
was the case.  Last I knew, this was not fixed, but I have not looked into 
the problem for more than a year...

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From: kipp@warp.asd.sgi.com (Kipp Hickman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Capabilities of OpenGL
Date: 17 Aug 92 23:49:42 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Advanced Systems Division

In article <1992Aug17.222701.27227@src.dec.com>, najork@src.dec.com
(Marc Najork) writes:
|> I have access to a Personal Iris 4D/25 with Turbo Graphics option.
|> 
|> Am I right in assuming that even under OpenGL, neither alpha
|> buffers,
|> nor stencil buffers, nor blending, nor auxiliary buffers will be
|> supported?
Nope.  You are wrong.  OpenGL, when running on a machine without
a particular hardware capability is *required* (by law, you get
shot otherwise :-) to implement the capability anyway, even if it
means using (dread) software.

Of course, it won't be very fast.

No subsetting is allowed.  Period.

				kipp hickman
				silicon graphics inc.